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Commentarius de praecipuis generibus diuinationum : in quo à prophetijs autoritate diuina traditis, & à physicis coniecturis, discernuntur artes & imposturae diabolicae, atq[ue] obseruationes natae ex superstitione & cum hac coniunctae : et monstrantur fontes ac causae physicarum praedictionum : diabolicae vero ac superstitiosae confutatae damnantur ea serie, quam tabella praefixa ostendit / autore Casparo Peucero D.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peucer, Kaspar, 1525-1602.
- Standardized Title:
- Commentarius de praecipuis divinationum generibus
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Divination--Early works to 1800.
- Divination.
- Magic--Early works to 1800.
- Magic.
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Genre:
- Wooden boards (Binding)
- Clasps (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered leaves, 440 leaves, 32 unnumbered leaves, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Recens editus & auctus accessione multiplici, copiosoq[ue] rerum & uerborum indice.
- Other Title:
- Commentarivs de praecipvis generibvs divinationvm
- Commentarius de praecipuis generibus divinationum
- Fingerprint:
- o-js isn- a-de oplu (3) 1572 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- VVittebergae : Excudebat Iohannes Lufft, anno MDLXXII [1572]
- Notes:
- First published in 1553 with title: Commentarius de praecipuis divinationum generibus.
- Edition statement precedes author statement on t.p.
- Signatures: A-3O⁸.
- The last leaf is blank.
- Dedicated to Archbishop Sigismund of Magdeburg.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy bound in stamped full stiff vellum over wooden boards with four raised bands and ms. title plate on spine; remnants of metal clasps on both sides of cover.
- Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea on rear pastedown and his autograph, dated 1888, on front free end paper.
- Lea Library copy has ms. annotations on front free end paper and an illegible ms. inscription on title leaf; a few marginal ms. marks in pencil throughout.
- OCLC:
- 80468598
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