Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.79

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • London. Wellcome Collection, MS.79
    • London. Wellcome Library, MS.79
    • Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.79
    • Wellcome Library, MS.79
  • Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
  • Date of Origin :
    • Middle 15th century
  • Composition :
    • 1 volume; 8 folios 4to. 231/2 x 16 cm. On vellum, 18th cent. calf binding.

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  • Written in a neat French gothic script, capitals picked out in red.

    Contents

    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'.

  • Probably written in France.
  • Covers stamped in gold with the arms of Louis François de Villeneuve-Trans (1784-1850), archaeologist and historian.
  • Purchased 1936.

Bibliography

  • Arnold, Ken; Porter, Roy and Wilkinson, Lise. Animal Doctor: Birds and Beasts in Medical History (London: Wellcome Trust, 1994), p. 56.

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