Astrological-divinatory text, consisting of a fortune-telling game which matches birds to zodiacal signs

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Written in a neat French gothic script, capitals picked out in red.
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1. ff. 1r-8v Anonymous astrological-divinatory text

A fortune-telling game which matches 12 birds to zodiacal signs ff. 1r-7r, followed by instructions for playing the game ff. 7v-8v. On f. 1r are sketches of birds with names, and the qualities associated with each bird, and the zodiacal sign. One of the birds is a bat, classified as a bird in medieval encyclopedias

Incipit f. 1v: 'Viues competenter nec queras amplius...'

Explicit: '...deinde divide per 30 partes equales et quod remanebit erit numerus expartem'.

Astrological-divinatory text, consisting of a fortune-telling game which matches birds to zodiacal signs

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