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Den Oprechten Onvervalsten Italiaenschen waersegger, oft Prognosticacie op 't Jaer ons Heere 1702

Published / Created:
[ca. 1704-1708]
Call Number:
Print20123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title above image., Date from copy in Rijksmuseum., Rijksmuseum lists creator as Monogrammist W. R., Three columns of text below image., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, Fortune-telling, Priests, Physicians, Medicines, Animals, Medallions, and Mentally ill persons
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Den Oprechten Onvervalsten Italiaenschen waersegger, oft Prognosticacie op 't Jaer ons Heere 1702, 3, 4 en 5 [graphic].

2.
Miscellany on prognostication

Published / Created:
1607.
Call Number:
Persian MSS suppl. 99
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, containing a miscellany on the topic of prognostication and the occult. Contains: Ma'rifat taqwim, Knowing the calendar; Fal nameh, A treatise for fortune-telling; and Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi's Work on branches of the occult
Description:
In Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 12 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern black gold-tooled binding., Modern pencil foliation., Contains some tables and diagrams., and Original text block appears to have been cut and surrounded by more modern paper, perhaps to remove original marginal annotations(?). New marginal annotations are added on top of the new marginal space.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian, Persian language and literature, Calendar, Fortune-telling, and Occultism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellany on prognostication

3.
The Chinese sensitive leaf

Published / Created:
[approximately 1815]
Call Number:
File 66 815 C539
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Caption title., First line: This is an account of the remarkably sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by one of the most celebrated operators, by the name of Jan Pertista Chaseretto, from China. It consists of two small thin leaves; the largest for gentleman, and the smallest for ladies. If you wish to know the temper of a person, you lay this leaf in the palm of his left hand, and you will be delighted to see it move of itself. If the person is of a sanguine temper, it rolls itself quickly up and falls from the hand; if he is of a choloric temper, it rolls itself up and runs toward the arm; if he is of a phlegmatic temper, it only rolls itself up a little, and remains laying; but if he is of a sanguine-choleric temper, it goes sometimes quick and sometimes slow.", Broadside describing the parlour entertainment which swept through the drawing rooms of England and America. Together with two printed ‘sensitive’ leafs, of a Chinese man and a Koi carp., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Mollett, printer, Cannon-Street, Ratcliff-Highway
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Chaseicto, Jan Pertista.
Subject (Topic):
Fortune-telling, Pseudoscience, Sympathy (Physiology), and Social life and customs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Chinese sensitive leaf