Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Antwerp. LAET, JASPAR, Of Borchloen, Astrologer (fl. 1488). Prognosticationes de anno 1491. 1a Prognosticationes magistri Jasparis laet de borch / loen de anno domini M.CCCC.xq. Goruic LettEr, 38 lines to a full page. Ornamental wood- cut initial letter on verso of first leaf. Printed signature a2 on third leaf. With Zodiacal diagram showing the entry of the Sun into Aries, for the year 1491 on first leaf, and small printer's device of Leeu below colophon. Antwerp, Gerard Leeu, [about 1490]. 4to. Morocco cover by Riviere. £125 Not in Hain or Proctor. Campbell 1078 (a fragment of a variant issue). Collation: a® = 8 leaves. THE ONLY COMPLETE EXAMPLE KNOWN of this extremely rare little pro- phetical Almanack for the year 1491. Campbell records that the example he cites is only a fragment in the Royal Library at Brussels. Under separate headings it gives predictions of coming events for the year, for the cities of Amsterdam, Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp and Mechlin, with the provinces of Holland and Zeeland. Then follows the ephemeris for each month of the year, with a general prognostication of events for the state and public, terminating with short forecasts of the events of the coming year for Charles VIII of France, Henry VII of England,’ the Archduke Philip of Brabant and the city of Louvain and the Duchy of Brabant. Jaspar or Gaspard Laet de Borchloen was the son of Jean Laet, the founder of a long line of astrologers, who issued their yearly prognostications uninterruptedly, until 1560. The first dated calendar was issued in [8]
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