156 results
- Manuscripts
[Wellcome MS Turkish Ottoman 19].
Date: 1711- Books
Descriptive mentality from the head, face and hand / by Holmes W. Merton.
Merton, Holmes W. (Holmes Whittier), 1860-Date: [1896]- Archives and manuscripts
Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro de
Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro deDate: 1657Reference: MS.1517- Books
De chyromantia libri III / authoris cuiusdam uetustissimi per Joannem Dryandrum restituti. Marpurgi, anno MDXXXVIII. Judicio singula expendito lector, prisquàm temere pronuncias, quae hic enim traduntur plane sunt philosophica, ex optimis optimorum authorum libris deprompta, nihilque; comune cum vulgo iactatis chyromanticis illis preposteris habent. Legat medicus, legar astronomus uterque; quae oblectent atque; commodent videbit.
Tiberti, Antioco, active 1445-1498.Date: 1538- Archives and manuscripts
Praxis medica commentariis illustrata
Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus, 1671-1734.Date: 1730-1734Reference: MS.1651Part of: Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)- Archives and manuscripts
Saunders, Richard (1613-1687?)
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1687?Date: 1701Reference: MS.4370- Archives and manuscripts
Chiromancy, France, 17th century
Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.7136- Pictures
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Two women having their palms read by fortune-teller, a man signalling from behind a tree. Etching.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 11532i- Books
Anthroposcopia, seu, Judicium hominis de homine : ex lineamentis externis a capite usque ad calcem proximum, ex probatissimis, quotquot ferè exstant, physiognomiae humanae scriptoribus, summo cum studio excerptum, & in usum studiosorum artium liberalium ... / a M. Andrea Otthone.
Otto, Andreas, -1670.Date: 1647- Pictures
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A fortune-teller is reading the palm of a woman with little girl on her lap. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin after J. Reynolds, 1786.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.Date: July 20th 1786Reference: 563045i- Pictures
A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860.Reference: 45150i- Pictures
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A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610.Date: MDCCXXIX [1729]Reference: 563023iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.- Ephemera
Hands : amazing appendages : a free event for the incurably curious / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2010- Archives and manuscripts
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Ferrand, Jacques (& others)
Ferrand, JacquesDate: c. 1515-1671Reference: MS.271- Pictures
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An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
Date: 1670-1700Reference: 563029i- Archives and manuscripts
Belot, Jean
Belot, JeanDate: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.1124- Books
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Bickerstaff's almanack: or, a vindication of the stars, ... For the year 1710. ... By Isaac Bickerstaff Esq; ...
Bickerstaff, Isaac.Date: 1710- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+53.
- Archives and manuscripts
Leone Milanese
Date: 1654Reference: MS.3235- Books
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Polygraphice, or the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... To which is added, a discourse of perspective and chiromancy / [William Salmon].
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.Date: 1675- Archives and manuscripts
Tractatus medico-practicus
Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus, 1671-1734.Date: 1710-1713Reference: MS.1644Part of: Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)- Books
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Keiromantia [sic], or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.
Rothmann, JohannDate: 1652- Books
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Animadversio astrologica: or, a discourse touching astrology. To which are added, these considerations, I. Of the mutability of sublunary beings. ... IV. The causes of several phænomena's [sic] ... By D. Irish, ...
Irish, David.Date: 1701- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellanea X
Date: c. 1735Reference: MS.3554- Archives and manuscripts
Tractatus medico-practicus de febribus
Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus, 1671-1734.Date: 1711Reference: MS.1645Part of: Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)