Belot, Jean

Les oeuvres contenant la chiromancie, physionomie [et l'oneirocritie], l'art de mémoire de Raymond Lulle, etc. An abbreviated transcript, probably of the 1640 Rouen edition. Illustrated with numerous rough pen-drawn figures of hands, horoscopes, etc., one folding. Contents: Chiromancie (pp. 1-174). Physionomie Tempéraments. Songes (pp. 175-270). Mémoire artificielle ou l'Art de Raimond Lulle (pp. 271-282). La rhétorique (pp. 283-320). Art de préscher doctement (pp. 321-338). Versets des Psaumes de David (pp. 338-341).

Early 18th century

1 volume 1 l. + 344 pp. 4to. 19 x 141/2 cm. Modern calf-gilt binding.

Purchased 1936.

On p. 253 a former owner has written in the lower margin 'le fait est véritable et a été approuvée [sic] en ma personne le 25 septembre 1799', with his signature 'Le françois firmin'. On the first leaf 'Le françois fils' has signed his name above a horoscopic figure 'pour la France et pour le roy de France 1817'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).