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Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination

Edited by Alessandro Palazzo and Irene Zavattero. Geomancy had a prominent position among the medieval arts of divination. Outstanding thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and Bonaventure dealt with it. Writers and poets quoted geomantic concepts and texts. This volume addresses crucial issues concerning this particular form of prognostication as well as the ecclesiastical reactions and condemnations. Chief texts of Latin medieval geomancy – Hugh of Santalla’s Ars geomantiae, Estimaverunt Indi and the Geomantia ascribed to William of Moerbeke – as well as texts from the Arabic and Hebrew geomantic tradition are carefully investigated here. Attention is also paid to lesserknown forms of divination – onomancy, chiromancy, spatulomancy and astral medicine – and to magic.

MICROLOGUS LIBRARY Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination Edited by Alessandro Palazzo and Irene Zavattero SISMEL EDIZIONI DEL GALLUZZO ~ 2017 87 MICROLOGUS LIBRARY 87 Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination Edited by Alessandro Palazzo and Irene Zavattero FIRENZE SISMEL - EDIZIONI DEL GALLUZZO ~ 2017 Micrologus Library Scientific editor: Agostino Paravicini Bagliani ADVISORY BOARD Bernard Andenmatten (Lausanne), Jean-Patrice Boudet (Orléans), Charles Burnett (London), Jacques Chiffoleau (Avignon), Chiara Crisciani (Milano), Tullio Gregory (Roma), Ruedi Imbach (Corsier), Danielle Jacquart (Paris), Michael McVaugh (Chapel Hill, NC, USA), Cecilia Panti (Roma Tor Vergata), Michel Pastoureau (Paris), Michela Pereira (SISMEL), Francesco Santi (SISMEL, Cassino), Giorgio Stabile (Roma), Jean-Yves Tilliette (Genève), Baudouin Van den Abeele (Bruxelles-Louvain-la-Neuve), Iolanda Ventura (Bologna), Oleg Voskoboynikov (Moskva), Nicolas Weill-Parot (Paris), Jean Wirth (Maisons-Laffitte) ORDERS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS SISMEL · EDIZIONI DEL GALLUZZO c.p. 90 I-50023 Tavarnuzze - Impruneta (Firenze) phone +39.055.237.45.37 fax +39.055.237.34.54 galluzzo@ sismel.it · order@ sismel.it www.sismel.it · www.mirabileweb.it ISSN: 2465-3276 ISBN: 978-88-8450-842-3 © 2017 - SISMEL · Edizioni del Galluzzo Volume stampato con il contributo della Struttura Dipartimentale Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Trento Layout: Giorgio Grillo CONTENTS ix Alessandro Palazzo, New Perspectives on Geomancy: Introductory Remarks TEXTS AND GEOMANTIC TRADITION 5 Thérèse Charmasson, La géomancie médiévale: les traités et leur diffusion 31 Irene Zavattero, Estimaverunt Indi: la tradizione testuale di un anonimo trattato di geomanzia 65 Pasquale Arfé, L’Ars geomantiae di Ugo di Santalla: il testo e la sua tradizione 93 Elisa Rubino, Per una edizione della Geomantia di Guglielmo di Moerbeke: il testo del proemio e della prima distinzione della prima parte 135 Charles Burnett, Hermetic Geomancy, «Ratione certis experimentis usitata» 143 Pasquale Porro, Divinazione e geomanzia in Tommaso d’Aquino: qualche osservazione sul De sortibus 167 Alessandro Palazzo, L’Estimaverunt Indi e la condanna del 1277 HEBREW AND ARABIC GEOMANCY 225 Marienza Benedetto, Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination in the Jewish Middle Ages v CONTENTS 243 Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Divination According to Goralot: Lots and Geomancy in Hebrew Manuscripts 271 Blanca Villuendas Sabaté, Arabic Geomancy in Jewish Hands: Specimens from the Cairo Genizah DIVINATION AND ASTROLOGY 291 David Juste, A Medieval Treatise of Onomancy: the Spera Sancti Donati 331 Danielle Jacquart, La gamme diversifiée des condamnations des techniques divinatoires dans les commentaires bibliques (XII e-XIII e s.) 351 Irene Caiazzo, Causalità celeste, astrologia e predizione nel secolo XII: qualche considerazione 371 Alessandra Beccarisi, Guglielmo di Moerbeke e la divinazione 397 Sebastià Giralt, The Astrological Works Attributed to Arnau De Vilanova: the Question of Their Authenticity 421 Stefano Rapisarda, Chiromanzia e scapulomanzia in anglo-normanno nel ms. Londra, British Library, Add. 18210 MAGIC AND IMAGES 445 Jean-Patrice Boudet, ‘Nigromantia’: brève histoire d’un mot 463 Isabelle Draelants, «Magica vero sub philosophia non continetur»: statut des arts magiques et divinatoires dans les encyclopédies et leurs «auctoritates» (1225-1260) 519 Nicolas Weill-Parot, Des images qui disent et font dire l’avenir? Talismans, divination et bonne fortune (XIII e-XV e siècle) vi CONTENTS 537 Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Géomancie et autres formes de divination. Remarques conclusives 555 Index of persons and locations, by Alessandro Palazzo 569 Index of manuscripts, by Alessandro Palazzo vii