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SHEPHERD'S CALENDER - WYNKYN DE WORDE [The kalender of shepeherdes], [in ye Flete Strete, at the Sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, 24 January 1528], sold not subject to return
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SHEPHERD'S CALENDER - WYNKYN DE WORDE
Footnotes
RARE, ESTC CITING ONLY THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY COPY. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, this Almanac is a translation of Le compost et kalendrier des bergiers, a guide to spiritual and physical health. Copiously illustrated with woodcut illustrations, including 12 vignettes of the months, Shepherds at night, devils with the damned, naked bathers, black horn player ("...every man and woman ought to cease of theyr synnes at the sownynge of the dredable horne"), zodiacal symbols, and others.
Provenance: Christopher Yates, inscribed "Christopher Yates Book/the leves his green the safe his red/This his my Name when i am/Ded Christopher Yates/ano... 1780" in margin of leaf Cii.





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