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MS.79. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
MS.79
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[p]1. ff. 1r-8v Anonymous astrological-divinatory text[/p]
[p]A fortune-telling game which matches 12 birds to zodiacal signs ff. 1r-7r, followed by instructions for playing the game ff. 7v-8v. On f. 1r are sketches of birds with names, and the qualities associated with each bird, and the zodiacal sign. One of the birds is a bat, classified as a bird in medieval encyclopedias[/p]
[p]Incipit f. 1v: 'Viues competenter nec queras amplius...'[/p]
[p]Explicit: '...deinde divide per 30 partes equales et quod remanebit erit numerus expartem'.[/p]
Physical description
Material: vellum; 8 ff. 4to.; leaf dimensions: width 16 cm, length 23.5 cm; written dimensions: width cm, length cm
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Purchased 1936.
Hand note
Written in a neat French gothic script.
Ownership note
Covers stamped in gold with the arms of Louis François de Villeneuve-Trans (1784-1850), archaeologist and historian.
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