Caranno, Antonio (& others)

Maravigliosi secreti di magia naturale medica [?] e spagirica. With added items on fortune-telling by numbers, etc. There are a few rough pen-drawings. Fol. 10, alchemical apparatus; Fol. 40, 40v, hygrometer, etc.; Ff. 74v-76, 78-81 fortune-telling diagrams. Ff. 55-62, 86, 87 contain numerical tables. The title is very faded: above is a pen-drawn portrait-bust. ff. 1-14 Secreti. In Italian and French. ff.15-19 Pseudo-Solomon. Clavicola. De magia necromantica: both in abridged versions. In Latin. ff.19-45 Secreti. In Italian, French, and Latin. ff.46-64 Pseudo-Agrippa (H. C.). Cabala (Fortune-telling by numbers). In Italian. ff.65-60 Nota di tutte l'Estrazioni di Genova. 1735-1789. f.70 Pseudo-Ansaloni (S.). Tavole di Rutilio Benincasa. 1553. f.71 Nota delle Estrazioni... fatte in Roma, Napoli... 1767. ff.72-81 Pseudo-Ansaloni (S.). Le vere duodeci Tavole di Rutilio Benincasa. 1553. Kabala pronosticale. ff.82-85 Scienza per la Regola del Tre. ff.86, 87 Tavole.

c. 1770

1 volume 89 ff. last 2 bl.. tall 8vo. 34 x 12 cm. Modern boards. A leaf is wanting after fol. 45 of the added foliation. Some leaves damp-stained.

Purchased 1936.

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).