[Portuguese fortune book]

Date:

1700

Description:

Fortune-telling book. Consists mainly of tables.

Language:

Portuguese

Provenance:

Provenance: Henry Seybert; inside front cover has bookplate of The Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Subject:

Fate and fatalism; Fortune; Fortune-telling; Occultism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, European; Manuscripts, Portuguese; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

36 leaves : paper, tables; 167 x 108 (145 x 85) mm bound to 167 x 115 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 36 + v (contemporary paper); [1-36]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.; Binding: Contemporary parchment. Some oxidation of ink in places. Cover pulling away, especially at inside back hinge.; Origin: Written in Portugal; 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Portuguese.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 134