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

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944013933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261339089
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4401393

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1575 and 1599?

Place

Germany

Summary

A manual on talismans or seals, thought to help manifest the powers of the planets when created in metal or on parchment. For Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, as well as the Moon and Sun, there is a brief text accompanied by five seal faces (except in the case of the Moon, which has four). Three faces have esoteric zodiacal and planetary signs and names, some with Hebrew letters; the fourth has a magic square (array of numbers) associated with the planet; and the fifth has a careful ink drawing of the planet represented as a divinity in human form.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Decoration

Small ink drawings of divinities associated with planets: Luna (f. 2r), Mars (f. 3r), Mercury (f. 4r), Jove (f. 5r), the Sun (f. 6v), Saturn (f. 9r), and Venus (f. 9r).

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Magic--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800
• Talismans--Early works to 1800
• Magic squares

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Treatise
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine
• Astrology
• Magic
• Fortune-telling

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1264: Seals of the planets 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/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

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  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De sigillo Lunae, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — De sigillo Martis, f. 2v
• fol. 3v — De charactere Mercurii, f. 3v
• fol. 4v — Sigillum Jovis, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — De sigillo Solis, f. 5v
• fol. 7r — Sigillum Veneris, f. 7r
• fol. 8r — De sigillo Saturni, f. 8r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Drawing, Seal, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Drawing, Seal, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Table, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Drawing, Seal, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Table, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Drawing, Seal, f. 4r
• fol. 4r — Table, f. 4r
• fol. 5r — Drawing, Seal, f. 5r
• fol. 5r — Table, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Drawing, Seal, f. 6v
• fol. 6v — Table, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Drawing, Seal, f. 7v
• fol. 7v — Table, f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Drawing, Seal, f. 8v
• fol. 8v — Table, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Drawing, Seal, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Table, f. 9r