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Magninus, Caspar. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Magninus, Caspar
- Magninus, Caspar
- Date:
- Middle 17th century
- Reference:
- MS.465
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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Description
De linearum, nevorumque prognostico faciei humanae contingentium codex tam naturaliter, quam accidentaliter fortunam hominum ostendentium per Metaposchopicam [sic] sive phixionomicam [sic] artem elaboratus. Illustrated by many rough pen and wash drawings of heads, eight of which are full-page. The text is partly in Italian, and partly in Latin.
Publication/Creation
Middle 17th century
Physical description
1 volume 1 bl. ll. + 96 ff. (last 5 bl.). folio. 30 x 211/2 cm. Original boards. Outer margin of last leaf torn away.
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Arrangement
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1929.
Finding aids
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).
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Accession number
- 56096