Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro de

Tractatus de astrologia ['judiciaria' struck through] et astrologicis interrogationibus, nec non de crisi et decubitu infirmorum. Quibus nuper accesserunt breves metoposcopiae, chiromantiae, et de signis unguium dissertationes. Una cum variis supradictarum scientiarum ac etiam physiognomiae fragmentis. Ex Veterum auctoritate depromptis. Illustrated by numerous figures and diagrams of horoscopes, heads and hands. Contents: Perez de Mesa (D.). Tractatus astrologiae ['judiciariae' struck through] (pp. 1-73). Perez de Mesa (D.). Tractatus de astrologicis interrogationibus. (pp. 75-265). In Italian after p. 86. Anon. De judicio Directionum (pp. 267-313). -De significatis Planetarum in duodecim Domibus (pp. 315-361). Perez de Mesa (D.). Liber unus de Crisi secundum Astrologorum doctrinam (pp. 363-422). Perez de Mesa (D.). Liber unus de Decubitu Infirmorum secundum Astrologos (pp. 423-468). Anon. Planetarum confortatio et debilitatio (pp. 471-636). -Tractatus de Metoposcopia (pp. 637-688). -Tractatus de Signis unguium...in manibus (pp. 689-711). -Tractatus Chyromanticus de Essentialibus Chyromantiae (pp. 713-766). -De chyromantia tractatus (pp. 769-812). -Trattato della Fisionomia dell'Huomo (pp. 813-840). -Epilogus et Recapitulatio totius Physiognomiae (pp. 841-847). -Fragmenta [astrological] (pp. 851-884).

1657

1 volume 4 ll. first 2 bl.. + 884 pp. + 14 ll. first 3 & last bl.. 8vo. 19 x 13 cm. Original vellum binding. Small piece cut out of third leaf.

Purchased 1928.

Diego Perez de Mesa flourished in the latter part of the 16th cent., and was professor of mathematics at Alcalá University.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).