About This Item
Title
Chiromancy
Subject
Occultism
Symbolism
Hand
Book Illustrations
Description
Artist unknown.
Diagram of the right hand with symbols used for chriomancy, or Renaissance palmistry.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Source
Original image in: Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535. De occulta philosophia (Coloniae : s.n., 1533), page 168. Z1f 9 (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
De occulta philosophia by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is one of the earliest works on the occult. This first complete edition, published in 1533, deals with the relationship between religion and ritual magic. The three books of De occulta philosophia include chapters on numerology, celestial observation, the sun and moon, chiromancy (palmistry), and the zodiac.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1533
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
Z1f_9.168
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
30 x 19 cm
Citation
“Chiromancy,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2390.
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