Accession number
MS W.73
Object title
Two chiromantic treatises.
Display Date
1730.
Created
Spain? 1730.
Binding
Brown 18th- or 19th-century sprinkled sheepskin, gold-tooled, marbled end-papers.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
56 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 155 x 100 mm
Provenance
Mrs. Ford; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1964; JPW 5253; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. chiromantic treatises; written and illustrated in western Europe, perhaps Spain, dated 1730.
The cartouche drawn in brown ink on the title page bears the title Chiromantie Tractatiumcule duo, and the date 1730.
Decoration: 5 drawings of hands inscribed with planetary symbols, lines and signs, 1 title page with cartouche.
Watermark: the fragments of watermarks that can be observed on a number of folios share features with some 18th-century watermarks found on paper produced in Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
The cartouche drawn in brown ink on the title page bears the title Chiromantie Tractatiumcule duo, and the date 1730.
Decoration: 5 drawings of hands inscribed with planetary symbols, lines and signs, 1 title page with cartouche.
Watermark: the fragments of watermarks that can be observed on a number of folios share features with some 18th-century watermarks found on paper produced in Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
Script
cursive
Language
Latin
Century
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