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Magic Books Exhibition - Panel 19

Mariano TOMATIS

Fortune Telling Books (19 of 30)

Innocenzio Paribona installed a rotating needle in the center of a page in his Le finte sorti (1633) to let the reader seeing the future.

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Livre de fortune du jeu des dés

Libro de la vetura overo il libro de le sorte

“Pronosticon Socratis Basilei”

Digby MS 46 1375.

“Experimentarius”

Harley MS 3892 1454, pp. 43r-58v.

“Experimentarius”

Anonimo, Digby 46 1454.
Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI

Le passetemps de la fortune des dez

Jean Belot, 1510 (I ed. 1482).
Sigismondo FANTI

Il Triompho di Fortuna

Agostino Zani ad istanza di Iacopo Giunta, Venezia 1526.
Francesco MARCOLINI

Le sorti intitolate giardino d’i pensieri

1540.
Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI

Libro della ventura con somma diligentia revisto e corretto

Venturino de Roffinelli, Vinegia 1543 (I ed. 1482).
Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI

Libro della ventura con somma diligentia revisto, corretto e novamente stampato

Vinegia 1547 (I ed. 1482).
Girolamo PARABOSCO

L’Oracolo

Giovanni Griffio, Venezia 1551.
Girolamo PARABOSCO

L’Oracolo

Giovanni Griffio, Venezia 1552 (I ed. 1551).

Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune

Ian Longis, Paris 1560.

Le risposte della signora Leonora Bianca

Francesco Rampazetto, Venezia 1565.

Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune

François Didier, Paris 1574 (I ed. 1560).

Le plaisant jeu du dodechedron de fortune

Iean Huguetan, Paris 1581 (I ed. 1560).

Traité d'astrologie

1582.
Lorenzo SPIRITO GUALTIERI

Le passetemps de la fortune des dez

Benoist Rigaud, Lyon 1583 (I ed. 1482).
Jean de MEUNG

The dodechedron of fortune or the exercise of a quick wit

John Pindley, London 1613.

Le dodechedron de fortune

Gilles Robinot, Paris 1615 (I ed. 1560).
Innocentio PARIBONA

Le finte sorti d’Innocentio Paribona dove per via d’arimmetica si risponde in versi a molte curiose dimande

Francesco Onofri, Firenze 1633 (I ed. 1620).
Innocentio PARIBONA e Innocenzio PARIBONDA

Libro delle finte sorti

Francesco Righettini, Trevigi 1661 (I ed. 1620).
Innocentio PARIBONA e Innocenzio PARIBONDA

Libro delle finte sorti overo Indovinala Grillo

Giovanni Antonio Remondini, Venezia 1669 (I ed. 1620).
Contadino IDIOTA

Giuoco dell'astrologo indovino

Vangelisti stamperia arcivescovale, Firenze 1693.
Erra PATER

The book of knowledge treating of the wisdom of the ancients

Peter Edes, Haverhill 1795.
Erra PATER

The book of knowledge treating of the wisdom of the ancients

Evert Duyckinck, New York 1806 (I ed. 1795).
Robert Cross SMITH e George GRAHAM

The Philosophical Merlin

J. Denley, London 1822.
Hermann KIRCHENHOFFER

The book of fate formerly in the possession of Napoleon

M. Arnold, London 1822.
Hermann KIRCHENHOFFER

The book of fate formerly in the possession of Napoleon

M. Arnold, London 1826 (I ed. 1822).
Robert Cross SMITH

The Royal Book of Dreams

Effingham Wilson, London april 1830.
Robert Cross SMITH

The familiar astrologer

John Bennett, London 1832.
Hermann KIRCHENHOFFER

The book of fate formerly in the possession of Napoleon

M. Arnold, London 1835 (I ed. 1822).
Innocentio PARIBONA e Innocenzio PARIBONDA

Indovinala grillo cioè finte sorti

Bologna 1836 (I ed. 1620).

Napoleon's Oraculum and Dream Book

New York 1839 (I ed. 1822).
Giovanni FINAZZI

L'Oracolo della sibilla cusiana

Tipografia Bisesti, Verona 1840 (I ed. 1828).
Hermann KIRCHENHOFFER

El oráculo : ó sea el Libro de los destinos, el cual fué propiedad esclusiva del Emperador Napoleón

Imprenta de Nicolas Gomez, Bogotà 1855.
Richard James MORRISON e Tao-Sze ZADKIEL

The royal book of fate: Queen Elizabeth's oracle of future events

Sherwood and co., London 1856.
Felix FONTAINE

The golden wheel dream-book and fortune-teller

Dick & Fitzgerald, New York 1862.
ASTRAMPSYCHUS

Astrampsychi Oraculorum Decades CIII

Fratres Unger, Berlin 1863.
Auguste BOUCHÉ-LECLERCQ

Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquité

Vol. 4, Ernest Leroux, Paris 1882.

Napoleon's Oraculum and Dream Book. Containing the great oracle of human destiny

Frank Tousey, New York 1884 (I ed. 1822).
RAPHAEL

The book of fate whereby all questions may be answered respecting the present and future

Foulsham, London 1887.

“Sortes Sangallenses”

Hermannus Winnefeld, Sortes Sangallenses, Max Cohen et filium Bonn 1887.

Mother Shipton's Gipsy Fortune Teller and Dream Book With Napoleon's Oraculum

I. & M. Ottenheimer, Baltimore 1890.
ASTRAMPSYCHUS

“Sortes”

James Rendel Harris, The Annotators of the Codex Bezae, C. J. Clay and sons London 1901, pp. 128-160.

“The Munich Sortes Alearum”

James Rendel Harris, The Annotators of the Codex Bezae, C. J. Clay and sons London 1901, pp. 180-183.

“Sortes Sangallenses”

James Rendel Harris, The Annotators of the Codex Bezae, C. J. Clay and sons London 1901, pp. 161-179.
FRANK TOUSEY

How to tell fortunes. Containing Napoleon's Oraculum, and the key to work it. Also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens

Frank Tousey Publisher, New York 1902.
Lynn THORNDIKE

A history of magic and experimental science

Vol. 2, Columbia University Press, New York 1923.
Stephen SKINNER

Divination by Geomancy

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1980.
Patrizia BIANCIARDI MARTINELLI

Quando la sorte è in gioco

Accademia dei Rozzi, N. 19, Vol. X, Siena september 2003, pp. 14-29.
Allegra IAFRATE

Si sequeris casum, casus frangit tibi nasum. La raccolta delle sorti del MS Ashmole 304

Aevum, N. 85, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano 2011.
Paolo MARINI

Un libro di sorti nella Romagna post-tridentina

Rara Volumina, Lucca 2013, pp. 23-50.
Allegra IAFRATE

Of Stars and Men: Matthew Paris and the Illustrations of MS Ashmole 304

Journal of the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes, N. 76, The Warburg Institute, London 2013, pp. 139-177.
Allegra IAFRATE

Pythagoras' Index denoting authorship in Sortes Books

Micrologus' Library, N. 65, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, Firenze 2014.
Magic Books Exhibition - Panel 19