Details

Subjects:

Fate and fatalism.
Fortune.
Fortune-telling.
Occultism.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, Portuguese.

Language:

Portuguese.

Summary:

Fortune-telling book. Consists mainly of tables.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 36 + v (contemporary paper); [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Some oxidation of ink in places. Cover pulling away, especially at inside back hinge.
Origin: Written in Portugal; 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: Henry Seybert; inside front cover has bookplate of The Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 135 (Ms. Portuguese 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 134

OCLC:

155962636