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 | Mariano TOMATIS Fortune Telling Books (20 of 30) The Book of Knowledge (1806) required to prick a table with a needle in order to locate the proper oracular answer. |
 | 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. |
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