Perfectissima numerorum virtus in thesuro cabalistico expressa pro futurorum cognitione. D.O.M. gratia semper concurrente ariolis et conjectoribus dicata

On the verso of the second leaf is an unfinished water-colour drawing of Satan[?] holding a trident, and accompanied by serpents. Illustrated by pen-drawn diagrams, wheels of fortune, etc. The first 22 ff. contain varieties of a numerical 'Kabala' ascribed to the Venerable Bede [672-738]. On the first leaf are the names of 'Fra Gioan Battista', in a contemporary hand, and below this in a mid-10th cent. script: 'Consignato al Sigr. [Domenico] Guglielmoni [ -1870] compatto di sollicita restituzione': under this again 'Alfonso Gola Viarana', probably written about the same period.

1741

1 volume 2 ll. + 60 ff. folio. 271/2 × 201/2 cm. Original vellum binding: spine damaged.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Berhard VI Collection.