Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘A Certain Foretelling of Future Things’: Divination and Onomancy, Definitions and Types
- 2 Platonic Relationships: Onomancy’s Intellectual and Visual Context
- 3 Lost in Translation: Greek Beginnings and Latin Corruptions, c. 400–c. 112
- 4 Body of Evidence: the Manuscript Corpus
- 5 Anathema Sit: Condemnation and Punishment
- 6 Certain Death? Onomancy and the Physician
- 7 Trial and Error: Onomancy and the Nobility
- 8 A Numbers Game: Onomancy at the University
- 9 Morbid Curiosity: Onomancy in the Monastery
- 10 Reformations: Onomancy c. 1500–c. 1700
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Transcriptions and Editions of ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ Texts
- Appendix II List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Appendix II - List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘A Certain Foretelling of Future Things’: Divination and Onomancy, Definitions and Types
- 2 Platonic Relationships: Onomancy’s Intellectual and Visual Context
- 3 Lost in Translation: Greek Beginnings and Latin Corruptions, c. 400–c. 112
- 4 Body of Evidence: the Manuscript Corpus
- 5 Anathema Sit: Condemnation and Punishment
- 6 Certain Death? Onomancy and the Physician
- 7 Trial and Error: Onomancy and the Nobility
- 8 A Numbers Game: Onomancy at the University
- 9 Morbid Curiosity: Onomancy in the Monastery
- 10 Reformations: Onomancy c. 1500–c. 1700
- Conclusion
- Appendix I Transcriptions and Editions of ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ Texts
- Appendix II List of Manuscripts Containing Onomancies of British Provenance, 1150–1500
- Bibliography
- Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Summary
Boston, Countway Medical Library, MS 7 (Ballard MS 20), fol. 69r, s. xivex
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College Library, MS 225/240, fol. 143r, s. xiiiex
–– MS 336/725, fols. 63v–66v, s. xv
Cambridge, St John's College Library, MS 37 (B.15), fols. 51v–53v, s. xv
Cambridge, Trinity College Library, MS O.1.57, onomancy not extant, s. xv
–– MS O.2.45, fol. 1r, s. xiii2
–– MS O.2.5, fols. 8r, 10r–11r, s. xiv
–– MS O.9.10, fol. 75v, s. xv
–– MS R.17.1, fol. 282v, c. 1160
Cambridge, University Library, MS Peterhouse 222, fol. 32r, s. xiii–xiv
Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iv.7, fols. 5v–10v, s. xv
London, British Library, MS Additional 10362, fols. 109r–v, 113r, s. xiv
–– MS Additional 15236, fols. 108r–v, 129v, s. xiiixiv
–– MS Additional 4698, fol. 2r, s. xvex
–– MS Arundel 292, fols. 111v–112r, s. xiii
–– MS Cotton Vespasian E. vii, fol. 23v, s. xv
–– MS Egerton 2852, fols. 111v, s. xiv2
–– MS Egerton 843, fols. 31v–32r, s. Xiii+2
–– MS Harley 1735, fols. 35v–36v, 1456–1485
–– MS Harley 2274, fol. 59v, s. xiv–xv
–– MS Harley 267, fols. 226v–227r, s. xiv1
–– MS Harley 3383, fol. 85r, s. xv
–– MS Harley 3719, fols. 175v–176v, s. xv
–– MS Harley 531, onomancy not extant, before 1474
–– MS Harley 5311, leaf I, 1406
–– MS Royal 12 E XXV, fols. 164v–165v, c. 1300
–– MS Royal 12 G IV, fol. 160r, s. xivex
–– MS Royal 17 A XXXII, fol. 2v, s. xv
–– MS Royal 7 D XXV, fol. 75r, s. xiiex
–– MS Sloane 121, fols. 120v–121v, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 1609, fols. 27v–28r, s. xiv–xv
–– MS Sloane 1620, fols. 65r–66v, 70v–71r, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 213, fols. 120r–121r, c. 1400
–– MS Sloane 3160, fols. 172v–173r, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 3229, fols. 6v–7r, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 3526, fols. 6v–7v, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 3554, fols. 12r–14r, s. xv
–– MS Sloane 521, fols. 45r–v, s. Xiv
London, Society of Antiquaries Library, MS 306, fols. 29v–30r, s. xv2
London, University College Library, MS Angl. 6, fols. 11r–v, 33v–36v, s. xvex
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- Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval BritainQuestioning Life, Predicting Death, pp. 237 - 238Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024