How to Spend October, 1612

Tacuinum Sanitatis, Paris, BnF Lat. 9333, f. 96r"In October... Arme your body soundly with pleasant wines or spiced drinks against the ensuing Winter. Arme your minde with study, for now this temperate time invites thee to read without impediments...

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How to Behave at School, 1479

Hortus sanitatis (1497), Darmstadt"We order and decree that teachers and students who are wearers of indecent garments, brawlers, drunks, nighttime ramblers, pimps, thieves, frequenters of taverns and other filthy places, players of dice, scoffers...

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