Astrological-divinatory text, consisting of a fortune-telling game which matches birds to zodiacal signs
Written in a neat French gothic script, capitals picked out in red. Contents 1. ff. 1r-8v Anonymous astrological-divinatory text A fortune-telling game which matches 12 birds to zodiacal signs ff. 1r-7r, followed by instructions for playing the game ff. 7v-8v. On f. 1r are sketches of birds with names, and the qualities associated with each bird, and the zodiacal sign. One of the birds is a bat, classified as a bird in medieval encyclopedias Incipit f. 1v: 'Viues competenter nec queras amplius...' Explicit: '...deinde divide per 30 partes equales et quod remanebit erit numerus expartem'.
1 volume 8 ff. 4to. 231/2 x 16 cm. On vellum, 18th cent. calf binding.
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Format: Archive, Institution: n/a, Identifier: b20927988, Digicode: digwms, Collection code: MS.79