title: Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch
text: # Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch
  
  The Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch is a parchment manuscript, completed in the 1490s in Regensburg, kept in Heidelberg University library as Cod. Pal. germ. 832. On 271 folia it treats topics of astrology and magic. A functional paper astrolabe is inserted on fol. 103 and into the back cover.
  
  contents:
  
      1v-27r astrological calendar of Regiomontanus
      28r-33r glosses on the calendar and the use of the following Astrolabium planum
      36r-83v Johannes Angelus, after Pietro d'Abano, Astrolabium planum
      84r-92r on the 36 constellations of Michael Scotus
      92v-98r on the signs of the zodiac
      98v-101v on the planets and their children
      102
      102rv glosses on planetary hours, instructions on using the following astrolabe
      103r Berthold Furtmeyr, astrolabe
      104r-105v the four complexions
      106r-108r the four elements
      108v schema of winds
      110r-116r book on dreams
      118v-119r illustration of two instruments of Regiomontanus; calendarium
      120r-125v "sand art of the 16 judges"
      127r-129r astrology of Guido Bonatti
      130r-135v onomancy of Johannes Hartlieb
      137r-233v geomancy
      244r-248r astrological hunting treatise; planetary hours
      248r-259r lunar divination with 28 mansions; description of a calendar; horoscope
      259v-271v on prognostics
  