Astrology and Numerology in Medieval and Early Modern Catalonia : : The Tractat de prenostication de la vida natural dels hòmens / / John Scott Lucas.
The Tractat de prenostication de la vida natural dels hòmens , a late fifteenth-century Catalan incunable, draws on a rich tradition of astrological magic, geomancy, Pythagorean numerology, and Hebrew gematria. This practical manual offers a method of determining the birth sign based on calculations...
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| Superior document: | The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World ; 18. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English Catalan |
| Series: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword by David J. Viera
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I. Prognostication at the Dawn of the Renaissance
- A. Changing World Views
- B. The Catalan Context
- C. Catalan Material in Relationship to Other European Traditions
- II. Genres of Prognostic Material in the Catalan Language
- A. Astrology and Astrological Magic
- B. Geomancy
- C. Numerology and Astro-numerology
- D. Gematria
- III. The Present Edition
- A. Known Editions of the Tractat
- B. Physical Description of "B"
- C. Contents, Divisions and Sources
- D. Linguistic Features and Orthography
- E. Provenance
- F. The Tractat in the Catalan Printing Tradition
- G. The Present Edition
- IV. Tracat de la vida natural dels homens segons los signes, planetas celestials, e proprietats lurs demonstren with Apparatus criticus
- V. English translation
- Appendix A. Paleographic Transcription
- Appendix B. Facsimile Reproduction.
- Glossary Catalan - English
- References
- Index.