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Compotus manualis magistri Aniani : cum familiarissimo Iacobi Marsi delphinatis commentario : cu[m]q[ue] magistri Nicolai Bonespei kalendario, & Cerei paschalis tabula, aliisq[ue] multis pro ipsius notitia conducibilibus

Anianus, Magister, Marsus, Jacques, Bonespeus, Nicolaus, 16th cent · 1531 · Impressum est Parrhisiis : In Edibus Anthonii Bonnemere · 5 pictures

A 1531 Paris calendar and computus manual, printed by Anthonius Bonnemere, with commentary by Jacques Marsus and a calendar by Nicolaus Bonespeus, made as a scholarly teaching tool for students and clerics reckoning dates. The pictures are crude black-and-white woodcuts: three repeated diagrams of a hand with finger-counting numerals and Latin labels, and a radial calendar wheel with a central sun face and month and sign divisions, offering a designer strong graphic models for diagrammatic labelling and radial layouts.

Calendar · Finger calculation

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library