Urbanus

Urbani cabala (Written in numerical cypher). Inserted is an atlas folio sheet containing a 90-square table. On the verso of the last leaf is the date 1740. The work, which is in Italian, deals with answers to questions by means of the numerical values of the letters of the alphabet.

c. 1740

1 volume 27 pp. + 5 ll. (last bl.). fol. 271/2 × 191/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1908.

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).