Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474
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[[Image:Calendarium cracoviense.jpg|thumb|Sole surviving copy of the ''Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474'']]
'''''Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474''''' (Cracovian Almanac for the Year 1474) is a single-sheet astronomical [[wall calendar]] for the year [[1474]], and [[Poland]]'s oldest known [[printing|print]]. This [[incunabulum]], known also as the '''''Calendarium cracoviense''''' (Cracovian Calendar), was published at [[Kraków]] in 1473 by [[Kasper Straube]], an itinerant [[Bavaria]]n printer who worked in Kraków between 1473 and 1476.
Like other [[almanac]]s and [[calendar]]s of its day, the ''Almanach'' lists [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]] holidays and astronomical data, including planetary [[Opposition (astronomy)|oppositions]] and [[Conjunction (astronomy)|conjuctions]]. It also provides medical advice, listing the best days for [[bloodletting]], depending on the age and illness of the patient. The ''Almanach'''s text is in [[Latin]].
At the time of its publication, the technology of printing with [[movable type]] was just twenty years old and remained almost entirely confined to Germans, who in the [[1470s]] [[Spread of the printing press|spread]] it widely through Europe. Printing appeared early in that decade in [[France]] and the [[Netherlands]], and after 1473 in [[England]] and [[Spain]].
The only surviving copy of ''Almanach cracoviense'' measures 37 cm by 26.2 cm, and is in the collections of the [[Jagiellonian University]].
==See also==
* [[Hortulus Animae, polonice]]
[[Category:1473 works]]
[[Category:Almanacs]]
[[Category:Incunabula]]
[[Category:History of Poland (1385–1569)]]
[[Category:History of Kraków]]
[[Category:Polish literature]]
[[Category:Renaissance Latin literature]]
[[Category:Latin texts]]