Hand-drawn map from PL 1, a Tidal Almanac by Guillaume Brouscon. Therefore, this almanac is an interesting marriage of printing and manuscript making methods. The printed almanac is accompanied by a fold out, hand-drawn map depicting the coastline of France, Brittany, Flanders, England, and Ireland. It contains tide tables, the dates of Church festivals and fasts and a perpetual lunar calendar. As Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II and James II, Pepys developed an extensive knowledge of maritime practice, which is reflected in his collection of books and manuscripts.Īt ten centimetres tall, this exquisite little book was produced by Brouscon in le Conquet, near Brest, and would have provided Breton seafarers of the 16 th century with day-to-day information needed for their work. The smallest book in the Pepys Library is a pocket tidal almanac from c.1546 by the Breton cartographer Guillaume Brouscon.
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