Mey (or May), Philipp

La chiromancie médicinale. Accompagnée d'un traité de la physiognomie et d'un autre des marques qui paraissent sur les ongles du doigt. Le tout composé en allemand ... et traduit en français par Philippe Henri Treuchses de Wezhausen. A La Haie. Chez Levijn van Dick. 1665. Illustrated by inserted pen-drawings (tracings) of hands and faces. This MS. is the holograph transcript made by Ernest Bose de Vèze [b. 1837] of Mey's work, for his edition published with an introduction in Paris, in 1895.

c. 1890

1 volume 1 l. + 120 pp. 4to. 25 × 19 1/2 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1928.

For an account of Philipp Mey [or May], cf. Thorndike. 'History of Magic and Experimental Science', Vol. VIII, 1958, pp. 468, 469.

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).