The oracle of the Sybils

L'Oracle des Sibylles qui rend toujours des pertinentes à toutes les questions proposeés touchant l'avenir, pourvu qu'elles soient susceptibles d'affirmation ou de négation. Revue par M. Vital Chaussegros, Astrologues [sic] et Mathématicien et proffesse les hautes Sciences... On the verso of the last leaf is a pen-drawn circular diagram in red and black. The writer's name on the title is written in mirror-writing. On the recto of the last leaf: 'Extrait ou copié d'après le livre de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal sous le No. 9580. petit in-4to'. The work deals with fortune-telling by numbers. Produced in Paris.

1817

1 volume 8 pp. + 4 ll. 4to. 20 x 15 cm. Unbound. Table and some headings in red and black.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).