Tradition 06 of 33
Divination and oracles
Tarot, cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, scrying, geomancy, runes, and other divinatory systems.
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- Books
- 4,542
- Earliest
- 100 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 37%
- 1,690 with public full text
- With covers
- 52%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,082
- Metadata match175
- Query match1,278
- Source classification (retained through merging)7
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Divination768
- Divinity645
- Early works to 1800584
- Physiognomy574
- fortune-telling303
- Divine right of kings300
- History293
- Palmistry245
- Astrology183
- Tarot174
- India155
- Geomancy154
- Hindu astrology152
- Runes147
- Trinity127
- Numerology124
- Hindu astronomy120
- Controversial literature116
- Dowsing116
- Sermons116
- Magic110
- occultism94
- Art93
- Unitarianism92
Top languages
- English2,351 · 52%
- French523 · 12%
- Latin311 · 7%
- German290 · 6%
- Sanskrit159 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Johann Caspar Lavater47 in this tradition51 books
- Giambattista della Porta44 in this tradition89 books
- Marcus Tullius Cicero23 in this tradition30 books
- Catholic Church20 in this tradition28 books
- Johannes ab Indagine18 in this tradition19 books
- Aristotle17 in this tradition55 books
- Nigel Pennick13 in this tradition17 books
- Kaspar Peucer13 books
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh11 in this tradition71 books
- Cicero10 in this tradition13 books
- Michael Scot10 in this tradition12 books
- Alliette10 in this tradition11 books
4,542 books
De cognitione hominis per aspectvm
Michelangelo Biondo
1544Latin
De diuinatione libri II
Cicero
1551Latin
De diversa hominum natura
Antoine Du Moulin
1549Latin
De divinationis origine ac progressu
Ludovicus Henricus de Fontaine
1867Latin
De epistula pseudaristotelica Peri basileias commentatio
Aristotle, Julius Lippert
1891Arabic
De facie humana cogitata anatomico-physiologica quorum partem alteram ...
Samuel Christian Lucae
1812Latin
De gl'augurij, e de le soperstitioni de gl'antichi
Sebastiano Fausto, Curzio di Navò Trajani
1542Italian
De haruspicibus apud Romanos
Paul Clairin
1880Latin
De horis canonicis
Alberto Trotti
1480Latin
De horis canonicis tum privatim, tum publice recitandis tractatus amplissimus
Bartholomaeus a Sancto Fausto
1634Latin
De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae ... libri IV
Giambattista della Porta
1650Latin
De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani libri IIII; qui ab extimis
Giambattista della Porta
1593Latin
De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, libri IV
Giambattista della Porta
1601Latin
De humana physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portæ Neapolitani libri IV
Giambattista della Porta
1650Latin
De humana physiognomonia libri IV
Giambattista della Porta
1650Latin
De hvmana physiognomonia
Giambattista della Porta
1618Latin
De hvmana physiognomonia ... libri IV
Giambattista della Porta
1650Latin
De la baguette divinatoire du pendule dit explorateur et des tables tournantes du point de vue de l'histoire de la critique et de la méthode expérimentale
Eugène Chevreul
2008French
De la divination
Cicéron, José Kany-Turpin
2004French
De la monarchie et de la République
Eugène Roquette
1875French
De metroposcopia, seù, Methoposcopia naturali ...
Filippo Finella
1648Latin
De quatuor signis, quae apparent in unguibus manuum ...
Filippo Finella
1649Latin
De runis helsingicis, ad ... d. Antonium Magliabechium, S.M.D. Hetruriae bibliothecarium ... epistola
Olof Celsius
1698Italian
De uno planissimo plenissimoque argumento pro divinitate disciplinae ac personae Iesu
Johannes Schultess
1828Latin