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Texts in German on geomancy and prognostication

by Nicolaus Breys, Albert Ehrman, Johan Fucht, Karl von Kesaer & Johannes Paulinus

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  • 15th century
  • Languages: German, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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German (Bavarian dialect) with a very little Latin. Texts in German on geomancy and prognostication Two units of production (fols. 1-274; fols. 275-351) by the same scribe using the same paper.

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

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “divination” and “geomancy”. Retained metadata contains “Geomancy” in the title, “Geomancy” in the description, and “Geomancy” in the edition title.

    • “divination”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
    • “geomancy”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
    • “Geomancy”· in title
    • “Geomancy”· in description
    • “Geomancy”· in edition title

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Blind-stamped leather binding over boards, with 4+1 bosses on each board, dated 1469 on the lower cover; Inscriptions ‘geomancia hais / ich ıohans fvcht ze machen / schaffet mich’ (upper cover), ‘ano dni m cccc lxviiii’ (lower cover). Binding by the workshop of Hans Stumpf of Nördlingen.; Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 716 digitized image(s); ff. ii + 351 + i.; Fols. 1r-272r: rubrics and symbols in red. Coloured initials with simple ornament, fols. 1r-31r, 36r-59v; spaces for initials not filled in, fols. 64r-71v. Fols. 275r-349v: gaps for initials and rubrics not filled in.; Paper; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Broxb. 84.3

c. 1469—German, Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Broxb. 84.3
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Germany, South, probably Nördlingen or area
  • Record origin: Description adapted and translated (April 2021) from M. Heiles, 'geomancia hais ich. Die geomantisch-astrologische Sammelhandschrift Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Broxbourne 84.3', Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 1 (2018), 179–209, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/13504, also deposited in Humanities Commons, licenced CC-BY-SA; with minor additions in the collation and provenance sections.
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