more hardly can we find, of some others
above, inside front cover (detail; 90ºcw; levels 30 1.00 255)
below, unopened plates (detail; inverted; levels 20 1.00 240)
M. I(Jacques). Gaffarel (1601-81 *). Curiosités inouyes, sur la scultpure talismanique des Persans. Horoscope des Patriaches. Et Lecture des Estoilles. (Unheard-of Curiosities concerning Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarchs, and the Reading of the Stars) (1637)
University of Lausanne copy, digitized February 27, 2008
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More hardly can we find the Hebrew letters in the heavens, made out of the greater and lesser Stars, which put together do make up words...
ex Thomas Brown (1605-82 *) — referring to Gaffarel — in Pseudodoxia Epidemica * or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. Third Edition, “with some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the end” (London 1658); Book 6, "Enquiries into vulgar and common errors," Chapter 14, "Of some others" : 286
The skin cover of the book, a kind of land/skyscape. Wayward reading leads to Sarah Kay, her "Legible skins: Animals and the ethics of medieval reading," postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies (2011) 2 : 13–32
30 January 2016
tags: alphabet; celestial alphabet; error; legibles; reading; skin; sies; sky; spatulamancy; stars; Jacques Gaffarel, Curiosités inouyes (1637); Sarah Kay