Art of Reading in the Middle Ages: previously digitised item
This calendar for the year 1526 was written and illuminated by Albrecht Glockendon who belonged to the Nuremberg artist family Glockendon. The family was best known for its superb book illustrations including painted illuminations as well as woodcuts. This calendar is an outstanding example of Albrecht Glockendon’s book illuminations. It includes a richly illustrated calendar on parchment, a magnificent example of late book illuminations that was manufactured when bookprinting was already established. The calendar is written on fol. 1v-13r of the codex. Every double page features a picture illustrating the respective month followed by eight rhyming verses and a list of the days of the month that also includes the saint of the day. Other illuminated pages follow: They show a bloodletting man, a table for determining the position of the moon and favourable bloodletting dates, and an aid for determining the Golden number. The calendar’s condition suggest that the manuscript was not used frequently. It rather seems to have been a valuable friendship gift, as the entry at the beginning proves. In 1572 (less than fifty years after its production) this calendar was a gift of Joachim Puchbach from Halle to his friend Wolf von Kreutzen.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Nürnberger Kalender von Albrecht Glockendon 1526
Tafel zur Bestimmung von Mondstand und günstigen Aderlassterminen
Zirkel zur Ermittlung von Goldener Zahl und Sonntagsbuchstaben
Termine der vier Quatembertage (Goldfasten) im Kirchenjahr