MS.5

Super genituram Francisci Mariae Advocati à Quinto Vercellensis, considerationes et disputationes per Petrum Advocatum ejus genitorem. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated by pen-drawn horoscopes. The work begins with a poetical dedication by the Author to his son, with whose future life, as forecast by astrological methods, this MS. is mainly concerned. At the end is a note of the births of four other children, the last in 1586, but the main work was completed in 1580. Produced in Vercelli. On the first leaf 'Ex bibliotheca Conventus Sancti Francisci Vercellarum'.

1580-1586

Material: vellum; 2 bl. ll., 136 ll. 4to.; leaf dimensions: diameter 26cm, length 175cm

Purchased 1924.

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