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Ordinary Meeting, December 26th, 1876. 
E. W. Binney, F.B.S., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
Notice of the ''Almanacke for XII Yere,” printed by 
Wynkyn de Worde in 1508, by William E. A. Axon, 
M.R.S.L., &c. 
Some members of the society may be interested in this 
curious work, of which a transcript has recently been made 
for me. The “Almanacke for XII yere” is of excessive 
rarity. There are only two copies known to exist. One 
was found by Dr. Bandinel in the Bodleian Library, and the 
other is in the British Museum. It is one of the smallest 
books in the world, measuring only two inches and a half 
by two inches. 
The object of the undertaking is thus set forth : — • 
“ This almanacke and table shall endure XII yere and is 
calked after the latytude of Oxeforde / and it is taken out 
of the grete ephymerides or almanacke of XXX yere / and 
sheweth the coniunccios that is to say the metynge & fyrst 
lyghtnynge that the mone taketh from the sonne the whiche 
is called the chaunge or the newe mone amonge us. And 
the opposycyons that is to say the full mone whan we se it 
full & roude ^ Also ye shal fynde every yere how 
longe the fiesshe tyme is betwene Crystmas and lente / & 
that is called Inter vallu / and there ye shal see how mani 
weekes and dayes the tyme is betwene Crystemas and lente 
& so forthe shal ye fynde Septuagesima that is whan 
Alleluya Gloria i excelsis / & Te Deum is layde down in 
holy chyrche / and than foloweth Quadragesima that is the 
fyrst sondaye in dene lent and then ye shall fynde eester 
day, Rogacion daye, Ascencyon day Whytsonday / and 
Advent sonday. And also ye shal fynde the eclypses 
betwene the sonne and the mone with tlie daye / hour / and 
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