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Cataloging Almanacs
Anna Loewenthal
May 23, 2017
Background
used by ordinary people
best sellers in 16th and 17th centuries
calendars, holidays, festivals, saints’ days,
astronomy, lunar cycles, sunrise, sunset,
tide tables, chronology, weather
predictions, zodiac, astrology,
prognostications, medicine, legal terms,
farming and gardening advice, roads and
distances between towns, country fairs
Timeline
1448 almanac printed by Gutenberg
1540s almanacs printed by English,
calendar and prognostication together
1567 19 titles being published
1571 monopoly granted to two London
stationers, Richard Watkins and James
Roberts
1603 Company of Stationers granted
monopoly by James I
1640s partisan almanacs printed
late 1600s 400,000 copies sold a year
Format 3 or 4 sheets of paper in octavo format
two sections: calendar and prognostication
cost 2 pence
blank areas for owners’ notes
Content
math & science
practical math
popularized new science
astrology
accepted that the stars affected weather,
human bodies, plague, famine, and war
collected to analyze prophecies
Content
math & science
practical math
popularized new science
astrology
accepted that the stars affected weather,
human bodies, plague, famine, and war
collected to analyze prophecies
In Hamnet
Title
Title
Title
Author
Publication
Date
Physical Description
Notes
Subject Headings & Form Terms
Subject headings
Form terms
Copy specific info
Sources
Bosanquet. English printed almanacks and prognostications;
a bibliograpnical history to the year 1600
https://archive.org/details/englishprintedal00bosauoft
Capp, Astrology and the popular press: English almanacs,
1500-1800 (London: Faber, 1979)
Capp, Berhnard. The Potter almanacs.
http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2004articles/pdf/article4.pdf
Kassell, Lauren. Almanacs and progonostications
http://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/teaching-
officers/kassell/almanacs
Smyth, Adam. Almanacs and annotators. Autobiography in
Early Modern England (Cambridge 2010)
Werner, Sarah. Tis the season for almanacs. 2013.12.10
http://collation.folger.edu/2013/12/tis-the-season-for-
almanacs/?_ga=2.264400973.31572664.1493733507-
199447678.1473185564
Almanac Examples
212- 377q 1673 sammelband
219- 517q 1693 sammelband
207- 183q Pond 1700