Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642148603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140000614

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

1651?

Summary

Diagram of the wheel of Pythagoras, also known as the sphere of Pythagoras, with instructions about how to use it for divination. The diagram is of concentric circles containing the days of the week and astrological symbols; letters of the alphabet; and numbers. Performing arithmetic functions described in the text on these numbers and the number corresponding to the first letter of the questioner's name leads to a numerical result to be found in one of the four quadrants at the center of the circles, which correspond to favorable and unfavorable outcomes. Questions suggested in the text include whether a pregnant woman will have a boy or a girl; whether one's master will become pope or cardinal; and questions about duels, theft, and illness. The text includes the date 1651.

Extent

Support

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 23 February 2017, as part of lot 59.
   

Subjects topical

• Divination--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Document
• 17th century
• Italian
• Diagrams
• Paper
• Italy
• Fortune-telling

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 17 Box 24 Folder 17: Ruota del gran filosofo Pitagora are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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Table of contents

• Recto — Ruota del gran filosofo Pitagoras, 1651?