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.

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).

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