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Tattuvam toṉṉūṟṟāṟukkum ātāramākayuḷḷa caram vāci āṟāyntu colliya Nantinūl rēkai kuṟi cāstiram.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
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Leone Milanese
Date: 1654Reference: MS.3235
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The book of palmestry and physiognomy : Being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant, and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination, and physiognomy: with circumstances upon the faces of the signes. Also, canons or rules upon diseases, or sicknesses. Whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as naturall astrologie, with the nature of the planets. Written in Latine, by John Indagine priest, and translated into English by Fabian Withers.
Johannes ab IndagineDate: 1656
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Hands : amazing appendages : a free event for the incurably curious / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome CollectionDate: 2010
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The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar : Collected into one entire volume. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.
Sir George Wharton, 1st BaronetDate: 1683
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Collection of seven medical treatises in French and Latin (Miscellanea Medica XX)
Date: Mid 14th CenturyReference: MS.546
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The High Dutch fortune-teller : wherein all those questions relating to the several states, conditions and occasions of humane life, are fully resolv'd and answer'd, according to the rules of art used by the ancient and famous Egyptian magi, or wise men and philosophers. To which is added, a judicial account of phisognomy and palmistry; as it was practised by the ancient Egyptians, (from whom the same was originally derived) shewing a person's good or bad fortune, by the lines and marks that are found in the face and hands, &c. The whole being more correct, than any thing of this nature hitherto published. Licens'd and enter'd according to order.
Date: [1700?]
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Chiromancy, France, 17th century
Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.7136
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Ferrand, Jacques (& others)
Jacques FerrandDate: c. 1515-1671Reference: MS.271
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Rocca, Giovanni Battista de (1653- )
Rocca, Giovanni Battista de, b.1653Date: 1696Reference: MS.4231
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A manual of cheirosophy : being a complete practical handbook of the twin sciences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, by means whereof the past, the present, and the future may be read in the formations of the hands ; preceded by an introductory argument upon the science of cheirosophy and its claims to rank as a physical science / by Ed. Heron-Allen ... with full-page and other illustrations by Rosamund Brunel Horsley.
Edward Heron-AllenDate: 1892
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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
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Five men congregated round a table, two of whom hold out the palm of their hands. Etching by J. Haynes after W. Hogarth, 1782.
William HogarthDate: published as the act directs, Feb.ry. 1 1782Reference: 563007i
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The hand of man : a practical treatise of the science of hand reading dealing in detail with its psychological, sexual, superstitious and medical aspects / by Noel Jaquin.
Jaquin, Noel, 1894-Date: [1933]
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Kohn, Julius ( -1934)
Kohn, Julius, d.1934Date: c. 1910Reference: MS.3124
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A man telling a woman's fortune by examining the palm of her hand. Coloured engraving.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 47513i
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Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro de
Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro deDate: 1657Reference: MS.1517
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A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.
Jean-Baptiste Le PrinceDate: [1786]Reference: 563057i
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Praecepta chiromantica / clarissimi Nicolai Pompeii ... prealecta olim ab ipso, anno Christianorum 1653tio, jam verò recognita, descripta, figurisque ligno incisis aucta.
Pompejus, Nicolaus, 1592?-1659.Date: 1682
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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].
William SalmonDate: 1675
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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 1445-1498Date: 1538
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Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, late 19th century.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 662788i
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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
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Tricasso, Patricio (1491-1550?)
Tricasso, Patricio (1491-1550?)Date: c. 1600Reference: MS.777
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The book of palmestry and physiognomy : being brief introductions, both natural, pleasant, and delectable, unto the art of chiromancy, or manual divination, and physiognomy, with circumstances upon the faces of the signs : also, canons or rules upon diseases or sicknesses : whereunto is also annexed, as well the artificial as natural astrologie, with the nature of the planets / written in Latine by John Indagine, and translated into English by Fabian Withers.
Indagine, Johannes ab, -1537. Chiromantia. EnglishDate: 1651

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Tattuvam toṉṉūṟṟāṟukkum ātāramākayuḷḷa caram vāci āṟāyntu colliya Nantinūl rēkai kuṟi cāstiram.

Leone Milanese

Hands : amazing appendages : a free event for the incurably curious / Wellcome Collection.

The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar : Collected into one entire volume. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology.

Collection of seven medical treatises in French and Latin (Miscellanea Medica XX)

Chiromancy, France, 17th century

Ferrand, Jacques (& others)

Rocca, Giovanni Battista de (1653- )

Two women having their palms read by fortune-teller, a man signalling from behind a tree. Etching.

Five men congregated round a table, two of whom hold out the palm of their hands. Etching by J. Haynes after W. Hogarth, 1782.

The hand of man : a practical treatise of the science of hand reading dealing in detail with its psychological, sexual, superstitious and medical aspects / by Noel Jaquin.

Kohn, Julius ( -1934)

A man telling a woman's fortune by examining the palm of her hand. Coloured engraving.

Cassia, Pompeio Barbaro de

A fortune-teller reading the palm of a young woman accompanied by a young man wearing oriental clothes. Etching by I.-S. Helman, 1785, after J.-B. Le Prince.

Praecepta chiromantica / clarissimi Nicolai Pompeii ... prealecta olim ab ipso, anno Christianorum 1653tio, jam verò recognita, descripta, figurisque ligno incisis aucta.

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].

Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, late 19th century.

Tricasso, Patricio (1491-1550?)