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La Chiromance et phisiognomie par le regard des membres de l'homme..., le tout mis en françois par Antoine du Moulin masconnois

Indagine, Joannes · 1638 · A Rouen, chez Jean Berthelin · 62 pictures

A 1638 French edition of Johannes Indagine's palmistry treatise, rendered into French by Antoine du Moulin and printed in Rouen by Jean Berthelin for readers of medical and occult lore. The pictures are crude woodcut outlines of open palms, with the lines and marks of the hand labelled by small symbols, crosses, and stroke patterns printed over a faint gray text ground, which suggests a diagrammatic, almost cartographic vocabulary a designer could borrow for schematic charts.

Littérature médicale en français au XVIIe

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