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| Keywords: Von-Allexandria.jpg 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 žZuch 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 žVon 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 self-made scan from Paul Heitz Neujahrswunsche des XV Jahrhunderts Strassburg 1900 8 1450-65 Reiberdruck original in Wien K K Hofbibliothek Schweiz oder Elsass Kenmayer Christmas cards New Year cards 15th-century woodcuts Alexandria in art Allegories of charity Woodcuts of ships | ||||
