Cabala

Incomplete work on fortune-telling by numbers for Lotteries, containing Reuchlin's 'Tavole' and 'Tavole dell'Almanaco perpetuo di Rutilio Benincasa in Napoli 1553': in Italian and Latin. Pp. 1-20, 25-36 are wanting, and all after p. 100. Illustrated by pen-drawn astrological figures, etc. Pp. 21-56. Reuchlin's Tavole; 57-end. Benincasa's Tavole. Five leaves of notes on numbers by the same hand, dated 1824-1841, have been inserted.

c. 1825-c. 1840

1 volume pp. 21-100. folio. 311/2 x 211/2 cm. Paper covers.

Purchased 1931.

Astronomical figures with their equivalent numerical calculation based upon the work of Johannes Reuchlin, colour photograph held by Wellcome Images at L0038181

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).