Johannes ab Indagine, Brief Introductions, Both Natural, Pleasant, and also Delectable unto the Art of Chiromancy (1558?)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1558?
Author
Iohn Indagine (alternate name for Johannes ab Indagine )
Translator
Fabian Wither (alternate name for Fabian Withers )
Book title
Briefe Introductions, both naturall, pleasaunte, and also delectable vnto the art of chiromancy, or manuel diuination, and phisiognomy: with circumstances vpon the faces of the signes. Also certain canons or rules vpon diseases and sickenesse. Whereunto is also annexed aswel the artificiall, as naturall astrologye, with the nature of the planets. Written in the Latin tonge, by Ihon Indagine prieste. And now latelye translated into Englishe, by Fabian Withers
Edition
second
Publication place
London
Printer
John Day
Publisher
Richard Jugge
Transcription source
EEBO; British Library 718.b.46
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- cosmography and astrology
- medicine
Summary
Definitions (A2, H6, L4)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: The boke of Palmestry. The first Chapiter of the distinction of the hand. THE auncient Grekes, who (as it may appere bi the long and old vse of the word) dyd vse thys sorte and kinde of Diuinatyon, whiche is gathered by the beholding of mans hand, called it by this propre name of Chyromancia.
sample: The boke of Palmestry. The first Chapiter of the distinction of the hand. THE auncient Grekes, who (as it may appere bi the long and old vse of the word) dyd vse thys sorte and kinde of Diuinatyon, whiche is gathered by the beholding of mans hand, called it by this propre name of Chyromancia.
STC
14075.5
Other editions
5 edns 1558-1633 (STC 14075, 14076, 14077 [British Library 1606/346], 14077a, 14077b; 1651 (Wing I141 reel 108:4 "The book of palmestry and physiognomy ..." British Library 8630.aa.22), 1656 (Wing I141A), 1666 (Wing I142 reel 604:1 "The sixth edition corrected"), 1676 (Wing I143 reel 1779:14 "The seventh edition corrected"), 1683 (Wing I 143A).
Facsimiles
Cuningham, William. The Cosmographical Glasse . Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968. view record
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 259-60. view record
Sources
- Indagine, Joannes ab. [Chiromantia] Introductiones Apotelesmaticæ ... in Chyromantiam, Physiognomiam, Astrologiam Naturalem, complexiones Hominum, Naturas Planetarum. Cum Periaxiomatibus de faciebus signorum, et canonib. de Ægritudinibus, etc.. Francofurti: n.p., 1522. view record
