Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch
Encyclopedia
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
, kept in Heidelberg University library as Cod. Pal. germ. 832. On 271 folia it treats topics of astrology and magic. A functional paper astrolabe
Astrolabe
An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and longitude, surveying, triangulation, and to...
is inserted on fol. 103 and into the back cover.
contents:
- 1v-27r astrological calendar of RegiomontanusRegiomontanusJohannes Müller von Königsberg , today best known by his Latin toponym Regiomontanus, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator and instrument maker....
- 28r-33r glosses on the calendar and the use of the following Astrolabium planum
- 36r-83v Johannes Angelus, after Pietro d'AbanoPietro d'AbanoPietro d'Abano also known as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quæ inter Philosophos et Medicos...
, Astrolabium planum - 84r-92r on the 36 constellations of Michael Scotus
- 92v-98r on the signs of the zodiacZodiacIn astronomy, the zodiac is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude which are centred upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year...
- 98v-101v on the planets and their children
- 102
- 102rv glosses on planetary hours, instructions on using the following astrolabe
- 103r Berthold FurtmeyrBerthold FurtmeyrBerthold Furtmeyr was a German miniaturist, attested as a citizen of Regensburg between 1470 and 1501.He contributed to an Old Testament manuscript of G. Rorer between 1470 and 1472...
, astrolabe - 104r-105v the four complexions
- 106r-108r the four elements
- 108v schema of winds
- 110r-116r book on dreams
- 118v-119r illustration of two instruments of Regiomontanus; calendarium
- 120r-125v "sand art of the 16 judges"
- 127r-129r astrology of Guido BonattiGuido BonattiGuido Bonatti was an Italian astronomer and astrologer from Forlì. He was the most celebrated astrologer in Europe in his century.-Biography:...
- 130r-135v onomancy of Johannes HartliebJohannes HartliebJohannes Hartlieb was a physician of Late Medieval Bavaria, probably of a family from Neuburg an der Donau. He was in the employment of Louis VII of Bavaria and Albert VI of Austria in the 1430s, and of Albert III of Bavaria from 1440, and of the latter's son Sigismund from 1456.In 1444, he...
- 137r-233v geomancy
- 244r-248r astrological hunting treatise; planetary hours
- 248r-259r lunar divination with 28 mansions; description of a calendar; horoscope
- 259v-271v on prognostics