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Title

Ars Geomantica ... etc.

Authors

• Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637

Call number

Ms. Codex 1074
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4227671
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4227671

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

First work in German and Latin (64v-92r entirely in Latin). Second work entirely in German

Origin

Date

between 1650 and 1699

Place

Germany

Summary

A presentation of the art of geomancy, in four books: 1. Liber primus, 2. De figuris geomanticis, 3. De judicio geomantico, and 4. De praxi huius artis, seu quaestionibus aliquot. Discusses geomantic figures and their interpretation, with illustrations showing arrangements of geomantic dots. The second work in the codex, Tractus de nativitate, briefly describes 12 human personality types according to the month of birth, proceeding from January to December, with a zodiac sign given in association with each month.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript based on caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
   
• The first work may correspond to Fludd's Tractatus de geomantia published in the compendium entitled Fasciculus geomanticus, in 1687 (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

105 leaves : 211 x 162 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 216 x 163 mm., table (unfolded) 298 x 192 mm

Collation

Paper, fol. ii + folded table + 98 + iv; 1-12⁸13⁴; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch), with two clasps.

Layout

Written in 23-24 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

Folded table (mounted on guard before f. 1); charts or figures (ff. 3v, 6r-7r, 73r, 74r, 82r, 82v, and 89r).

Script

Written in a German cursive hand with a humanistic script for Latin passages.

Provenance

• Sold by Lutz & Meyer (Stuttgart?), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Geomancy
• Astrology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ars geomantica, f. 1r
• fol. 92r — Tractus de nativitate, f. 92r

Decorations

• fol. 3v — Table, f. 3v
• fol. 6r — Table, f. 6r
• fol. 73r — Table, f. 73r
• fol. 74r — Table, f. 74r
• fol. 82r — Diagram, f. 82r
• fol. 82v — Diagram, f. 82v
• fol. 89r — Diagram, f. 89r