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The everlasting or perpetual calendar of the Princely Collections belongs to the earliest examples of a type of instrument that was developed after the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Synoptic instruments were developed to facilitate the reciprocal conversion of both calendar systems, with the help of which the important dates of the coming years could also be determined. Executed with great clarity, the calendar of this versatile example by Erasmus Habermel consists of an octagonal, gilded copper plate, on both sides of which concentric circles are engraved. Arranged on the front side are a repeatedly subdivided, rotating disk and two hands of different lengths, which are used for ecclesiastical and astrological calendar calculations. The rear side exhibits a total of four tabulated areas containing a wealth of information on the solar and lunar eclipses, date indications for Easter and Advent according to the Gregorian and Julian calendars, and basic calendar indications for the secular years until the year 4400.
Erasmus Habermel, detail from "Perpetual calendar," c. 1600
© LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna
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