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- Title
Reading Palms, Handling Hands: Learning, Embodiment, and Images in a Late Medieval Chiromancy Roll.
- Authors
BOXER, CARLY B.
- Abstract
An illuminated manuscript describing the prognosticatory art of chiromancy – reading the lines of the hand – requires its viewer’s repeated, tactile engagement not only because of the inherently manual interpretative method it purports to teach, but also because of its very form. Unlike all other medieval chiromancies, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby Rolls 4 takes the form of a narrow parchment roll, its surface covered in schematic diagrams of hands. This article considers Digby Rolls 4 in the context of earlier English chiromancies as well as contemporary parchment devotional rolls to explore the ways in which this portable, potentially amuletic object constructed an embodied, interpretive practice for its reader.
- Subjects
PALMISTRY; PARCHMENT; MANUSCRIPTS; AMULETS; BODLEIAN Library
- Publication
Eolas, 2022, Vol 14, p100
- ISSN
1931-2539
- Publication type
Article