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An engraved New Year’s greeting from around 1450–1465 in Switzerland or Alsace. Christian Charity holding a crown of flowers and sitting on a ship Jesus as pilot points to a flag with the words (in German): „Zuch uff den segel wir sint am land und bringen gud ior manger hand.“ Pull up the sail, we are now ashore And we bring good year all the more" Inscription below reads: „Von Allexandria kom ich har gefarn Und bringe vil güter ior die wil ich nit sparn. Ich wil sie gebe umb kleines gelt Rechtum und got liep ha ich damit wolt vgelt.“ “From Alexandria I’ve come here by sail And I bring a very good year, of which you may freely avail. I’ll give it out for a little reward: Thereby I earn righteousness and the love of the Lord.” |
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Reiberdruck. original in Wien K.K. Hofbibliothek (Schweiz oder Elsass?) |
| Source | self-made scan from Paul Heitz Neujahrswunsche des XV. Jahrhunderts (Strassburg 1900), #8. |
| Author | Kenmayer |
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