What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro Medical Practice in Later Medieval England, Hilary M. Carey's 2003 peer reviewed article in Social History of Medicine, Oxford University Press, examines twenty nine surviving medieval English folded almanacs, or girdle books, a pre 1500 English innovation worn fastened at the belt, carrying the Zodiac Man diagram used to time bloodletting and other procedures to the Moon's zodiacal sign. Its strength is that it reaches the folding almanac claim in full, where the already catalogued Capp study, starting its own scope in 1500, cannot. Its limit is that it covers this pre 1500 manuscript tradition specifically, not the later printed almanac tradition Capp covers.
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Tier one: a peer reviewed article in Social History of Medicine, Oxford University Press, examining twenty nine surviving medieval English folded almanacs and reaching the folding almanac claim in full where the already catalogued Capp study, starting its own scope in 1500, cannot. Its limit is that it covers this pre 1500 manuscript tradition specifically, not the later printed almanac tradition Capp covers. NotesPeer-reviewed Social History of Medicine article (16(3), 481-509) examining twenty-nine surviving medieval English folded almanacs ("girdle books"), a pre-1500 English innovation worn fastened at the belt, carrying the Zodiac Man diagram used to time bloodletting and other procedures to the Moon's zodiacal sign. Reaches Neck's folding-almanac claim in full; the already-catalogued Capp starts its own scope in 1500 and cannot.
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AuthorHilary M. Carey
PublisherSocial History of Medicine, Oxford University Press / Oxford Academic
Publication Year2003
URLhttps://doi.org/10.1093/shm/16.3.481
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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