Fortune-Telling

Date:
Late 17th century
Reference:
MS.2413
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Description

Livre de bonne aventure. A book of fortune-telling by means of 48 questions, with answers partly in quatrains, determined by the use of various tables.

Publication/Creation

Late 17th century

Physical description

1 volume 13 ll. (first 2 bl.). + 73 pp. + 42 ll. + 60 pp. + 18 ll. (last 2 bl.). 8vo. 151/2 × 101/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding. Margins slightly cropped.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1936.

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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  • 69665