The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.

Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.

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Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.; Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504. Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis. and Malampus, 3rd cent. B.C. Peri elaiōn sōmatos. English., 2006, The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll., CLARIN DSpace, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/A68187.

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dc.contributor.author	Hill, Thomas, b. ca. 1528.
dc.contributor.author	Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504. Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis.
dc.contributor.author	Malampus, 3rd cent. B.C. Peri elaiōn sōmatos. English.
dc.coverage.placeName	London
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-25
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-25T17:04:37Z
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dc.date.created	1571
dc.date.issued	2006-02
dc.description.abstract	A greatly enlarged version of Hill's 1556 translation of "Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis" by Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles, in which these woodcuts first appeared. The work by Malampus is "Peri elaiōn sōmatos". Ostensible printer's name and address from colophon actual printer's name from STC. Includes a bibliography of Hill's works. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "[par.].j.". Quires B and C have numbered leaves interleaved with unnumbered. Running title reads: A pleasaunt discourse of phisiognomie. Identified as STC 17787 on UMI microfilm reel 287. Reproductions of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (same copy filmed twice).
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dc.subject.lcsh	Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800.
dc.title	The contemplation of mankinde contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.
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