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

Title

Portuguese fortune book

Call number

Ms. Codex 134
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1551756
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551756

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Portugal

Summary

Fortune-telling book. Consists mainly of tables.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Extent

36 leaves : 167 x 108 (145 x 85) mm. bound to 167 x 115 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 36 + v (contemporary paper); [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Some oxidation of ink in places. Cover pulling away, especially at inside back hinge.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Provenance: Henry Seybert; inside front cover has bookplate of The Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism, of the University of Pennsylvania.
   

Subjects topical

• Fate and fatalism
• Fortune
• Fortune-telling
• Fortune-telling by books
• Occultism

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--18th century

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