Composite manuscript on geomancy, chiromancy, iatromathematics, astronomy, alchemy and medicine
Description
Composite manuscript in Latin and German. The texts, which are
presented in no systematic order, can be grouped as follows.
Geomancy: Latin treatise with schematic drawings (pp. 1-152,
163-169); other geomantic schemata (185, 236, 263 [incorrectly
paginated as 262]). Medicine: recipes, in German (pp. 153-162 and
197-198); examination of the blood after bloodletting and
instructions for bloodletting, in German (pp. 193-196, 255-261).
Iatromathematics: lunarium, in Latin (pp. 169-172); planets and the
attributes of their corresponding hours / of the persons born under
their sign, in German, partly in rhymed verse (pp. 173-175,
178-179, 218, 240); tables for determining which planets govern
which hours (p. 200, 240); signs of the zodiac, their
characteristics and their influence on the people born under them,
in Latin (pp. 180-185, 186 [hexameter]) and German (pp. 187-192),
directions and tables for calculating the position of the moon in
the zodiac (pp. 177-178, 213-214, [215b]-216 [for the years
1406-1480]); diagram of the zodiac (p. 262); drawing of the parts
of the fingers correlated with signs of the zodiac, temperaments
and elements (p. 264 [incorrectly paginated as 263]); monthly
rules, in Latin (p. 215-[215a]). Astronomy: calendar (pp. 201-212);
tables for calendar calculations (pp. 237, 241-242, 254); table of
lunar eclipses for the years 1422-1462, with drawings of the
respective degree of coverage (pp. 238-239 and 243).
Prognostication: prognostics for thunder, in German (p.199);
prognostics for the new year, in Latin (p. 217). Alchemy: recipes
for alchemy, in Latin (pp. 219-220) and in German (pp. 221-228).
Treatise on chiromancy, in German, commencing with a colored pen
drawing of two hands with the lines of the hands (pp. 244-254).
Other items: incantations, in German (p. 156) and in Latin (p.219);
four hexameters about the quality of wine, in Latin (p. 264
[incorrectly paginated as 263]). The manuscript, written in various
hands, is from the library of Aegidius Tschudi (no. 104).
