tia00468000

Text-inc Id:

tia00468000

Headings:

Alkardianus Le cosse passate, presente e advenire

Subjects:

astrology

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] Alkardianus: Le cosse passate, presente e advenire ‘Incomenza una utile e molto delecteuole opera de alicardiano philosopho in sapere le cosse passate presente e aduenire.’ Incipit: ‘[I]nuocando prima la gratia del spirito sancto il quale nei cuori nostri facia il suo habitaculo. Cominciaremo a uui Magistro. Magistro singularissimo uulgarizaui questa dignissima e rara opera piena de diuinatione e celestiale disciplina...’ c5r Explicit: ‘...24 Desia dio eterno che gram fauore harai. Deo gratias. Finis.’ From typewritten notes inside the Columbia copy: Apparently an Italian version of a fortune-telling book of Arabian origin, which was attributed to a geomancer Alkardianus. Thorndike lists two manuscripts of this work. He found the text also included in the Experimentarius of Bernardus Silvester (History of Magic, I, 716-17; II, 110-115), but did not trace any printed text. The text is distributed into 28 chapters, according to the 28 divisions of the zodiac.

Imprint:

[Bologna Henricus de Colonia 1482-83] 4° 20 leaves. 28 lines. Rom. ch. Secundo folio: [a2r]: tuti li pianeti

Collation:

[a6] bc6 c6 blank.

References:

Source: New York, Columbia Univ., Butler Library ISTC: ia00468000