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A young woman of humble origins, surrounded by children, is being told by a fortune teller that she will have a happy marriage. Lithograph by C. Constans after L. Boilly, 1824.
Louis-Léopold BoillyDate: [1824]Reference: 562727i
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Ansaloni, Sebastiano (pseud. Benincasa, Rutilio) (1523-1599)
Ansaloni, Sebastiano, 1523-1599.Date: Late 18th centuryReference: MS.957
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Arcana mundi : magia e occulto nel mondo greco e romano. Vol. 2, Divinazione, astrologia, alchimia / a cura di Georg Luck.
Date: 1999
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M0005322: Vedda Divination, Sri Lanka
Date: November 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/53
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Fortune-Telling
Date: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.2413
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Ansaloni, Sebastiano (1253-1599)
Ansaloni, Sebastiano, 1253-1599.Date: c. 1864Reference: MS.959
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Trattato del r.p.m. Paolo Antonio Foscarini, theologo Carmelitano della divinatione naturale cosmologica, ouero de' pronostici e presagii natvrali, delle mutatione de' tempi, etc / [Paolo Antonio Foscarini].
Paolo Antonio FoscariniDate: 1615
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Orakel : Der Blick in die Zukunft. 14 Nov. 99 - 20 Feb. 2000.
Museum RietbergDate: [1999]
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Nomancie Cabaliste
Date: Early 18th centuryReference: MS.3691
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[Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].
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Egyptian fortune-tellers outside a palace on the Nile. Etching by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas, 1798.
Louis-François CassasDate: 1798Reference: 563026i
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MS Arabic 534
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The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann.
Franz HartmannDate: 1889
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Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32331i
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A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
Reference: 33482i
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Ramalasiktā / śrīKāśīviśvanāthapurī me ḌhuṃḍhirājaGaṇeśa ke pāsa Dāū Agnihotrī ke Siddhavināyakayaṃtra me Ramalasiktā chāpāgayā jisai lenā hoya usai ḌhuṃḍhirājaGaṇeśa ke pāsa Dāū Agnihotrī ke dukāna para milaigā; Ganeshá Prásádá Vajapai, Sidh binaek press Benares proprāiṭara GaṇeśaPrasādaVājapeyī 20.
Somanātha Dāṃbha, Son of Hari.Date: 30 jūna san 1888 īsavī,1945
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Genga, Bernardino (1655-1734)
Genga, Bernardino, 1655-1734.Date: 1692Reference: MS.2494
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M0002707: A set of divining bones / M0002707EB: "Instruments and medicine containers"
Date: 04 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/22/86
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Ortloff Von Bayerland
Date: Late 15th CenturyReference: MS.588
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I Ching
Date: c.1865Reference: MS.2285
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A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
CaravaggioDate: MDCCXXIX [1729]Reference: 563023i
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Mexico: a sheet of an Aztec document showing a serpent with other divinatory figures. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
Date: [1820]Reference: 2498771i
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Miftāḥ al-jafr : Aḥsan al-taksīr / Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥasan ʻurf Mīr G̲ẖulām Ḥasan.
G̲h̲ulām Ḥasan, MīrDate: [1909]
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Commonplace book containing practical and theoretical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXXVIII)
Date: Late 15th CenturyReference: MS.562
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Āryyabhaṭīyam : jyotiḥśāstram / Parameśvarācāryyakr̥taṭīkayā samalaṅkr̥tam ; Śrīmadudayanārāyaṇavarmaṇā Nāgarībhāṣayāʼnuvāditam = The Arya bhatiya, or, Ancient Sanskrit astronomical work / by Arya Bhata ; with a Sanskrit commentary of Parameshwaracharya ; translated into Nagari by Udaya Narain Singh.
AryabhataDate: 1906

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A young woman of humble origins, surrounded by children, is being told by a fortune teller that she will have a happy marriage. Lithograph by C. Constans after L. Boilly, 1824.

Ansaloni, Sebastiano (pseud. Benincasa, Rutilio) (1523-1599)

Arcana mundi : magia e occulto nel mondo greco e romano. Vol. 2, Divinazione, astrologia, alchimia / a cura di Georg Luck.

M0005322: Vedda Divination, Sri Lanka

Fortune-Telling

Ansaloni, Sebastiano (1253-1599)

Trattato del r.p.m. Paolo Antonio Foscarini, theologo Carmelitano della divinatione naturale cosmologica, ouero de' pronostici e presagii natvrali, delle mutatione de' tempi, etc / [Paolo Antonio Foscarini].

Orakel : Der Blick in die Zukunft. 14 Nov. 99 - 20 Feb. 2000.

Nomancie Cabaliste

[Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].

Egyptian fortune-tellers outside a palace on the Nile. Etching by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas, 1798.

MS Arabic 534

The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann.

Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.

A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.

Genga, Bernardino (1655-1734)

M0002707: A set of divining bones / M0002707EB: "Instruments and medicine containers"

Ortloff Von Bayerland

I Ching

A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.

Mexico: a sheet of an Aztec document showing a serpent with other divinatory figures. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.

Miftāḥ al-jafr : Aḥsan al-taksīr / Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥasan ʻurf Mīr G̲ẖulām Ḥasan.

Commonplace book containing practical and theoretical medical treatises (Miscellanea Medica XXXVIII)