Tricasso, Patricio (1491-1550?)

Chyromantia...dal proprio essemplare in volgare tradotta. Ad instantia del Magistrato et Veneto Patritio Domenico Georgio. MDXXIV. Transcript. Illustrated with 49 pen-drawn figures of hands.

c. 1600

1 volume 76 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 18 x 131/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

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Purchased 1934.

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).

The work is a compendium based on part of the 'Anastasis' of Bartholomaeus Cocles [1467-1504]. It was put on the Index by Pope Paul IV in 1559. The first edition, of which this MS. is a transcript, was printed in Venice by F. & J. A. Rusconi.