Helmut Winkler > 19-02-2021, 03:19 PM
Mark Knowles > 19-02-2021, 03:37 PM
(19-02-2021, 03:19 PM)Helmut Winkler Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The explanation the Bodleian Library gives is
"The text prefaced with a painted frontispiece on four levels: the signs of the zodiac, twelve men exhibiting the influence of these constellations, the stars (or planets generally), and seven men with rays shining on them exhibiting the appropriate influence"
and they surly are right. The text directly under the frontispiece is a dedication to John of Bedford.
MarcoP > 19-02-2021, 03:48 PM
Oxford University Wrote:People under the influence of the zodiac and the planets from the opening of Roland of Lisbon’s Reductorium physiognomie, manuscript produced in England, 15th c. Two rows of men stand beneath the heavens at the beginning of this 15th century work on medicine. Each man in the top row is associated with one of the twelve signs of the zodiac ranged above him. Each in the second row is struck by the rays of force emanating from one of the seven planets. At the time these were considered to include the Sun (the central star here) and the moon (to the right hand side). This manuscript is a copy of a work commissioned by John, Duke of Bedford, one of the most lavish patrons of English manuscript production in the 1400s, from his personal physician and astrologer, Roland of Lisbon, who was also a master of medicine in Paris.
Quote:Dedicatória
Primus tractatus est causarum signorum intus dicendorum demonstratius
Tractatus secundus declarat particularit physonomia coloris pilorum et membrorum animatorum seu sensitivarum particularum et differentie sexus
Tractatus tercius huius operis. In quo declaratur iudicium naturalium inclinationum hominis per formas et figuras et lineationes brachiorum et manuum
Tractatus IIII de iudiciis morum per dispositiones membrorum animatorum et operationes eorundum
Tractatus quintus declararans iudicia morum per dispositiones membrorum nutritivorum generativorum et progressiuorum
Tractatus sextus et ultimus In quo sigillati colliguntur signa divisorum morum virtutum et viciorum ex pluribus partibus corporis humani
-JKP- > 19-02-2021, 08:09 PM