Panthéon ou temple des oracles diuertissans : dans lequel chacun peut apprendre ce que luy doit arriuer de bon-heur ou de mal-heur en ses desseins & entreprises / par C.D., commandeur de Valcanuille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hervé, François d', approximately 1580- author.

Contributor:

Besongne, Cardin, -1671, bookseller.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Fortune-telling--Early works to 1800.

Fortune-telling.

Genre:

Printed waste.

Penn Provenance:

Collegium Huense Societatis Jesu (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Jesuits (Huy, Belgium) (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

3, [22], 3-215 [that is, 216], [1] pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Panthéon ov temple des oracles divertissans

Panthéon ou temple des oracles divertissans

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Cardin Besongne, au Pallais, en la Gallerie des prisonniers, aux Roses vermeilles, MDCLIV [1654]

Summary:

Fortune-telling book with possible answers for men and women printed in poetric quatrains on facing pages. The reader would throw three dice: the first indicates the oracle in the book to consult, the second indicates which page within the oracle's section, and the third indicates which quatrain on the page is the reader's fortune.

Notes:

By François d'Hervé. See Barbier.

Signatures: ã⁸ B-P⁸.

Woodcut title ornament, initial, head-piece, and illustrations of dice.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Editio Altera.

Kislak Center copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("Collegii Huensis Soc[ieta]tis Jesu.") of the Jesuit college at Huy (Belgium) at head of title leaf.

Kislak Center copy has portions of leaves from an early printed work in French used as binder's waste.

Cited in:

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), t.3, column 770

OCLC:

1416662023