Details

Subjects:

Geomancy.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

First work in German and Latin (64v-92r entirely in Latin). Second work entirely in German.

Summary:

A presentation of the art of geomancy, in four books: 1. Liber primus, 2. De figuris geomanticis, 3. De judicio geomantico, and 4. De praxi huius artis, seu quaestionibus aliquot. Discusses geomantic figures and their interpretation, with illustrations showing arrangements of geomantic dots. The second work in the codex, Tractus de nativitate, briefly describes 12 human personality types according to the month of birth, proceeding from January to December, with a zodiac sign given in association with each month.

Contents:

1. ff. 1r-92r: Ars geomantica: tractatus de geomantia in quatuor libros divisa / Robert Fludd.
2. ff. 92r-98r: Tractus de nativitate.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript based on caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, fol. ii + folded table + 98 + iv; 1-12⁸13⁴; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 23-24 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand with a humanistic script for Latin passages.
Decoration: Folded table (mounted on guard before f. 1); charts or figures (ff. 3v, 6r-7r, 73r, 74r, 82r, 82v, and 89r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch), with two clasps.
Origin: Written in Germany in the second half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
The first work may correspond to Fludd's Tractatus de geomantia published in the compendium entitled Fasciculus geomanticus, in 1687 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Lutz & Meyer (Stuttgart?), 1952.

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. 78 (Ms. German 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1074

Contains:

Tractus de nativitate.

OCLC:

181345130