How to Cure Melancholy, c. 1303

J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 42, f. 1v"The home must be bright, luminous, without pictures, and there should be many fragrant things there, and everyone in the home must be beautiful to behold... and they must say lighthearted things, and there...

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How to Interpret Small Hands, 1651

John Bulwer, Chirologia (1644), Folger Shakespeare Library"The hands very short, doth signifie a gross and rude person: fat and fleshie, with the finger likewise, inclined to theft. Small hands, crafty men." Johannes ab Indagine, The Book...

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