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The Onomancy of Pseudo-Johannes Hartlieb in Hans Talhoffer's Fechtbuch, Part IV
This text is part of the Divination Hub . This is Part IV of the series about onomancy. One of the exemplar manuscripts of Hans Talhoffer's Fechtbuch (fight book) is Gotha, dated to 1443/48, which contains tables and instructions in the divinatory practice of onomancy falsely attributed to Johannes Hartlieb (c. 1410 - 1468), the German author of the Buch aller verbotenen Kunst ( Book of All Forbidden Arts ). Hartlieb describes onomancy (Greek ὄνομαμᾰντείᾱ; Latin onomamante
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