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[Portuguese fortune book]

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  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: Portuguese
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Fortune-telling book. Consists mainly of tables.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Fortune-telling”. Retained metadata contains “Fortune-telling” in the description and “Fortune-telling” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fortune-telling”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Fortune-telling”· in description
    • “Fortune-telling”· in subject

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

36 leaves : paper, tables ; 167 x 108 (145 x 85) mm bound to 167 x 115 mm; Binding: Contemporary parchment. Some oxidation of ink in places. Cover pulling away, especially at inside back hinge.; Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 36 + v (contemporary paper); [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in Portugal; 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Portuguese.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

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Identifiers

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  • ark:/81431/p31c03

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Cataloging notes

  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9915517563503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 134
  • Provenance: Provenance: Henry Seybert; inside front cover has bookplate of The Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism, of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
Catalog id
colenda:81431-p31c03
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