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Danus, Laurentius Augustanus (1523-1599). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Danus, Laurentius Augustanus (1523-1599)
- Danus, Laurentius Augustanus (1523-1599)
- Date:
- Middle 16th century
- Reference:
- MS.228
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Description
Physiognomia et chiromantia.
An owner's name has been erased on the first leaf, all now legible is 'Sum Iohannis..[Frei?]burgensis'.
Illustrated by numerous pen-drawings of hands and heads.
Fol. 1 (Begins) Chiromantia diuinationis species est, quae per / linearum manuum inspectionem celebratur... 2 Physignomia [sic] M Dani. / Recte Cicero hunc philosophum appellat ...44 ... uel torturam significat aut contractionem membrorum.
Publication/Creation
Middle 16th century
Physical description
1 volume 48 ll. (last 3 bl.). 4to. 20 x 151/2 cm. Unbound. Lower corners of first and third leaves torn off.
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Acquisition note
Purchased 1930.
Finding aids
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).
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- 52580