Die Chiromantia Parva (auch Adelard Chiromantie, Adelard Chiromancy, Chiromantia minor, Chiro.B1, Ps.-Aristoteles: Chiromantia V) ist eine lateinische Chiromantie, deren frühster Beleg aus dem 13. Jahrhundert stammt. Sie ist in neun Handschriften und einem Druck überliefert. Der Text beginnt mit den Worten Linee naturales tres sunt in planite omnis ciros bzw. mit Linee naturales tres sunt in planitie omnis cyros.
Antiochi Tiberti doctoris de cheiromantia libri III. Mainz: Ivo Schöffer 1541, fol. K1r–K4r
Antiochi Tiberti doctoris de cheiromantia libri III. Denuo recogniti, atque ordinem digesti. Eiusdem argumenti de cheiromantia, incerti cuiusdam authoris liber, hactenus nondum typis excusus per Ioannem Dryandrum edicum Marpurgensem. Mainz: Ivo Schöffer 1541, fol. K1r–K4r: Liber cheiromantiae incerto authore, Teil 1 (Inc. In principio cheiromantie sciendum est).
Burnett erfasst diesen Text als "Chiro.B2", laut ihm handelt es sich um "an abbreviated and edited version of Chiro.B1".[5]
Charles Burnett, The earliest chiromancy in the West, in: Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages. Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds (Variorum collected studies series 557), Aldershot 1996, S. 8–17.
Forschungsliteratur
Peter Meyer, Traités en vers provençaux sur l'astrologie et la géomancie, in: Romania 102 (1897), S. 225–275, hier S. 242.[3]
Stefano Rapisarda, A Contribution to a Corpus of Anglo-Norman Chiromancis, in: Quaestio 19 (2019), S. 129–148, hier S. 135–138.
Frank Fürbeth, Das Johannes Hartlieb zugeschriebene 'Buch von der Hand' im Kontext der Chiromantie des Mittelalters, in: ZfdA 136 (2007), S. 449–479, hier S 464f.
Samuel P. Gillis Hogan, Stars in the Hand: The Manuscript and Intellectual Contexts of British Latin Medieval Chiromancy and its Scholastic and Astrological Influences, MA-Thesis: University of Saskatchewan 2018, S. 23-35, 49–53, 107.
Charles Burnett, The earliest chiromancy in the West, in: Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages. Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds (Variorum collected studies series 557), Aldershot 1996, Nr. X, S. 190 (Nr. III).
Charles B. Schmitt und Dilwyn Knox, Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus. A guide to Latin works falsely attributed to Aristotle before 1500 (Warburg Institute surveys and texts 12), London 1985, S. 23.
Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Bd. 5. The sixteenth century, New York 1941, S. 675.[4]
Hardin Craig, The works of John Metham. Including the romance of Amoryus and Cleopes, London 1916, S. xxv (Nr. I).
Montague Rhodes James, The ancient libraries of Canterbury and Dover. The catalogues of the libraries of Christ church priory and St. Augustine's abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin's priory at Dover, Cambridge 1903, S. 490.
Lynn Thorndike / Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, Revised and Augmented Edition (The Mediaeval Academy of America Publication 29), London 1963, Sp. 0830 F.
↑Vgl. Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Descriptive Catalogue, 4 voll., Cambridge 1900-1904, Bd. 3, S. 92.
↑Vgl. Montague Rhodes James, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Descriptive Catalogue, 4 voll., Cambridge 1900-1904, Bd. 3, S. 84f.
↑ 3,03,1Vgl. Peter Meyer, Traités en vers provençaux sur l'astrologie et la géomancie, in: Romania 102 (1897), S. 225–275, hier S. 242.[1]
↑ 4,04,1Vgl. Gottfried Vielhaber und Gerlach Indra, Catalogus Codicum Plagensium (Cpl.) manuscriptorum, Linz 1918, S. 251.[2]
↑Charles Burnett, The earliest chiromancy in the West, in: Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages. Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds (Variorum collected studies series 557), Aldershot 1996, Nr. X, S. 190, Anm 14.