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Document Details : Title: Un trattato bizantino di omoplatoscopia (Atheniensis, Bibliotheca Nationalis 1493, ff. 155v-159r) Author(s): COSTANZA, Salvatore Journal: Byzantion Volume: 82 Date: 2012 Pages: 57-78 DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.82.0.2174084 Abstract : In the Late Byzantine period particular attention was paid to various kinds of foreseeing the future. That is why so many treatises on divination have been copied and transmitted to us – among other things the handbooks on divining from a lamb’s shoulder blade. This method originally goes back to a foreign tradition. We present the edition of an anonymous treatise in Ms. Atheniensis, Bibliotheca Nationalis 1493, which is ascribed to Turkish wisdom. We subsequently make a comparison with Psellus’ contribution on omoplatomancy. |
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