18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK
 
 18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK

18th Century Treen Almanac / AL-MA-NAK


An Incredibly rare & fascinating piece of vernacular  treen , a perpetual calendar / almanac in fruitwood, one side has the numerals 1 - 31 then repeated underneath in Roman numerals, the other side 
has the months of the year spelt "Phonetically  JA- NA -WA -RI = January VE - WER - WA -RI =
February,  Maard = March and so on , the phonetic spellings could most probably be a broken dialect of old Friesian ( Dutch) which does have similarities in the way some of the months are spelt & also how the letters would possibly have sounded by somebody who was unlearned or
unfamiliar with the common language . Initialed  BW.  AL-MA-NAK  English /Dutch 18th Century

Dimensions :
15.2 cms High (6 inches)
12.7 cms Wide (5 inches)
2.5 cms Deep (1 inches)