This book benefited in the course of time from two international enterprises, respectively the project “Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa / Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe”, sponsored by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität” Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and the “Narpan II: Ciencia vernácula en el Occidente mediterráneo medieval y modern / Vernacular Science in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean West” (PGC2018-095417-B-C64, 2019-2021), sponsored by the Gobierno de España, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
1 The texts edited in the present volume complement and complete the contents of Stefano Rapisarda (ed.), Manuali medievali di chiromanzia, transl. and notes by S. R. & Rosa Maria Piccione, Roma, Carocci, 2005, to the introduction of which reference may here be made. Responsibility for the planning and putting together of this new collection of texts has been equally shared by its two authors, who agreed on the working principle that each should vet the other’s provisional chapters. However, following the scholarly tradition of assigning individual responsibility, we attribute it as follows: Introduction, Chiromantia parva, Palmistria Salomonis, and Glossary to Stefano Rapisarda, Eadwine chiromancy, Dextra viri, a lost French chiromancy and Bibliography and Index to Tony Hunt.
