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Marchant, G.; 1499

Guy Marchant, printer, «Compost et Kalendrier des Bergères», 68 folio leaves, more than 80 woodcut illustrations, Paris, August 17th, 1499.

This work complements the «Kalendrier des Bergiers» (1491), intended for a male audience, while this «Compost» is aimed at women readers, «Calendar of the Shepherdesses». Both books combine astrology, medicine, Christian morality, and practical advice. It includes numerous didactic woodcuts.

The image shows a golden armillary sphere, to be used in one of the versions of the coat of arms of Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle, extracted by me from one of the astrological pages of this book, page 15, «a iii».

Marchant, Compost et Kalendrier des Bergères, 1499, armillary sphere

In [Fernández de Enciso, M.; 1519; page 1] there is also an armillary sphere that bears certain similarities to the one appearing in [Marchant, G.; 1499; page 15]. A comparison of the bands with zodiac symbols of both spheres can be seen in [Fernández de Enciso, M.; 1519].


Bibliographical reference of century XV.

Classification: In black and white, French language and Incunabulum.

The author is Marchant, Guy.

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Internal resources: MarchantG1499.CompostEtKalendrierDesBergeres.UCM.pdf, scanned PDF version from the Historical Library of the Complutense University of Madrid.

 

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