And we are finally open access: a volume full of #earlymodern almanacs, especially the German #Schreibkalender, dear #bookhistory experts:
www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3mgalsa7b3c2q
Schreibkalender der Frühen Neu...
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Ein Feßle #Bier am 2. August! ... gab's jedenfalls im Jahr 1608 beim Verfasser der handschriftlichen Einträge im #Schreibkalender, den ich in meinem Blogbeitrag bespreche:
https://etheritage.ethz.ch/fessle-bier/
#wein #ernte #ocr #volltexterkennung #htr #transkribus #ethbibliothek #altedrucke #rarebooks #bookhistory #sonnenfinsternis #erara
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In fact, and so far, we have 8477 copies of #Schreibkalender with handwritten entries in the database. There are more out there in the wild, and we do know where much more copies are waiting for historians, but, alas, the funding ended. Unfortunately.
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In fact, and so far, we have 8477 copies of #Schreibkalender with handwritten entries in the database. There are more out there in the wild, and we do know where much more copies are waiting for historians, but, alas, the funding ended. Unfortunately.
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Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender
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Let's just say, this pretty yellow and amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender
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Let's just say, this pretty yellow ans amazing volume came out this week in print, and will be available in open access soon (likely in June): www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen... It is about #earlymodern almanacs of German-speaking Europe: the #Schreibkalender
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No stamp, no fun, it's #LibraryStampMadness. Here, the archive stamp from the Stadtarchiv Altenburg, Germany, is prominently placed in the blank space of a writing calendar's page. In every #earlymodern #Schreibkalender, the blank space was a typical feature for individual remarks and comments.
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And what about using a red ink library stamp to make the stamp almost disappear on the title page printed with red and black ink, mumbled a smiling librarian once and stamped this #earlymodern #Schreibkalender. This is, of course, another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.
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And every copy of these almanacs were paper products. Many illiterates of the time had their first regular encounters with paper (and print in general) when looking at almanacs. #Schreibkalender, for example, were amongst the highest produced, sold, and consumed printed artefact of the period.
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Nota bene, #earlymodern #histodons: Unsere Tagung zum frühneuzeitlichen #Schreibkalender im März 2024 an der @hab_wf Wolfenbüttel hat ein erweitertes und aktualisiertes Programm:
https://www.hab.de/event/ak-bbm_schreibkalender_2024
Anmeldungen zur Online-Teilnahme sind willkommen: [email protected]
#bookhistory #HAB_WF #almanacs #mediahistory #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModernEurope
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What a beauty. Enjoy this hand-colored after printing beauty from 1598 Germany. It's a #Schreibkalender. #bookhistory 🗃️
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What a beauty. Enjoy this hand-colored after printing beauty from 1598 Germany. It's a #Schreibkalender. #bookhistory #histodons
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No stamp, no fun. Here, the archive stamp from the Stadtarchiv Altenburg, Germany, is prominently placed in the blank space of a writing calendar's page. In every #Schreibkalender, the blank space was a typical feature for individual remarks and comments.
Here is more on the topic of #Schreibkalender: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109743516561998227
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Kalenderfreundinnen und Kalenderfreunde: eine Kalendertagung.
“Die #Schreibkalender der Frühen Neuzeit und die Handschriften in ihnen” (13.-15.03.2024, @hab_wf Wolfenbüttel). #earlymodern #almanacs, #bookhistory, #histodons
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Printed in red, in the middle of signs and symbols of an early modern German #Schreibkalender: "Hundes-Tage Anf."
This referred in 1687 to the beginning (Anf.= Anfang) of the so called dog days (#Hundstage), the hot and sultry period in northern hemisphere between early July and early September. #dogdays #almanac #histodons
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So depending on your individual astrological sign (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces), the reader of the writing calendar could decide if making love, put on new clothes, hunt etc. was a good or bad idea in the given year the almanac was made for.
The #Schreibkalender provided explanations on the used signs and symbols too. Here is the page from the beginning of the almanac: "Erklärungen" (in English: Explanations).
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What the reader in 1666 needed to do: 1) remember your own zodiac sign (listed on top of the section), 2) have a look the 12 categories of what to do: Make Love, Hunt, etc.), and then 3) check if the chosen activity in 1666 - in the example "Play" as a human born in Pisces - was "good", "bad" or something in the middle of these two.
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This is an advice section from a #Schreibkalender, a popular #almanac genre of early modern German speaking Europe, in which the reader is informed what to do best regarding the celestial configurations and planetary positions of the very year. The 12 categories of what to do in 1666 are:
Build
Send messenger
Make love
Cut hair
Marry
Hunt
Move into a new house
Buy and sell
Wear new clothes
Melt
Play
Hike#histodons #EarlyModernHistory #bookhistory
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Guido d'Arezzo made this teaching system: ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la..., and centuries later, "ut" was replaced by "do" (by Giovanni Battist Doni to make it more singable).
Here is the link to the glued extra title page writing calendar: https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00250051/VD17-SAM-80_1265_7_2_0001.tif?logicalDiv=jportal_jpvolume_00283448
And here is a normal version of the same #Schreibkalender, without the glued part, and the musical notation: https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00173324/K_1647_0369_re.tif?q=Bauern%20Haushalt%20Gesprächs%20Calender
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We do not know why the user of this #Schreibkalender of 1647 glued a paper with "ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la ..." on the title page part with musical notation.
However, we do know that
ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la was, since the thirteenth century, used as mnemonics for the first note of each of the six phrases of the chant 'Ut queant laxis' (a hymn to praise St. John the Baptist). It is called #solmization: attributing a distinct syllable to each note of a musical scale.#histodons #bookhistory #music
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4) call upon the reader to engage with the author in any case of inconvenient content, and not make the publisher or bookseller responsible.
These 4 steps are to be found in the prognosticum part of a #Schreibkalender for 1647, printed in Nuremberg by the Endter printing house, and made by the almanac compiler Marcus Freund.
The Schreikalender series was called "Alt und Newer Astrologischer Kriegs-Calender" (VD17 27:711482U).
In German this reads even better, as you will see in part 3
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@dbellingradt I only recently learned of the German Calendarbooks when the #Vatican uploaded some of the Pal.lat collection including some #Schreibkalender from the late 16th C Palatine princes
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#Sneakpeak into one of my current projects:
The "Soldierking" Frederick William (King in #Prussia and Elector of #Brandenburg from 1713 to 1740) had problems with his knees and legs during his last months in 1740. Before he died (31 May 1740), someone close to him wrote this entry in February 1740 into a #Schreibkalender: „Deß Königs Lincke Bein sehr geschwollen gewesen“.
More about this and the potential of writing calendars as sources for many fields soon. @histodons #histodons
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We already have thousands and thousands of #Schreibkalender from the years 1540–1800 in the database, and we will grow these numbers substantially over the next years. We offer various search options, among others by authors, publishers, titles, printing places, dates, etc. Just have a look: https://schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de
By the way, we are using the open source database software #WissKI in the project, dear #digitalhistory experts. #histodons
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And this intentionally-inserted writing space gave the #Schreibkalender its name: a calendar to insert writing. These handwritten portions are to be found in thousands of calendars and are largely unstudied. They, in sum, make the Schreibkalender a very rich source for many historical departures. It is from this point that our project departed. We aim to make these sources from 1540-1800 accessible online. #history #almanacs
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The #Schreibkalender was a paper-based material artifact resulting from complex and specialized publishing and printing processes, and also a document of handwritten interaction. Within the typical dual content of the "Kalendarium" (containing astronomical information and astrological details) and the “Prognostikum" (containing longer stories on historical, political and religious topics) the owner/reader was offered space for individual remarks, observations, and comments. And ...
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Schreib-what? What the hell is a #Schreibkalender, you may ask. Here we go:
While being a characteristic part of the contemporary media ensemble in the German-speaking areas of Europe, the #Schreibkalender was produced from its beginning in 1540 in high quantities and reached very large audiences. For many, this kind of #almanac was the first contact with a printed paper product, the first access to printed words and symbols and images.
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Did you know that we are building an online reference work for the annually-published Early Modern German writing calendar, the #Schreibkalender, funded by the German Research Foundation (#DFG) and in cooperation with the Competence Unit for Research Data and Information (CDI) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg?
While we update the database, feel free to use it already:
https://schreibkalender.wisski.data.fau.de
But what is this all about? A thread for #earlymodern #bookhistory and #MediaHistory, #histodons
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Having a difficult day? Here is the official entry and symbol for "awkward day", in German:
mißlicher Tag, in a German almanac from 1754.
The source: Neuer und Alter Schreib-Calender (1754), URL: https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN679978933