Los book

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Lot books , also called dotted books , dream books ( somniaria ) or fortune telling books , have been a popular genre of mantic literature since the late Middle Ages . It comes mainly from the traditions of ancient and Arabic literature . In a modified form and in connection with Tarot or Kabbalah , lottery books are used up to the present day.

history

A lottery book served, for example by opening a page at random, to predict the course of weather or illness, political developments and other everyday questions. Since lottery tickets were outside the sciences tolerated by the Church and were viewed as sorcery , they were forbidden under both ecclesiastical and secular law. The first lot books were based on the mantic system of the early Middle Ages , which Isidore of Seville developed in his Etymologiae analogous to the theory of elements . The divination practices described here are geomancy , hydromantic , aeromancy, and pyromancy . Later systematics came from Rabanus Maurus , Hugo von St. Viktor , Thomas von Aquin and Berthold von Regensburg . The main work of the late Middle Ages was Johannes Hartlieb's Puoch aller verpoten kunst, unglaubens and zaubrey (1456), which was also created under the sign of the rising witch madness . A variety of mantic methods are described here. Lot books were still written into the early modern period, u. a. the Ulm Sortilogium (around 1482) and the parodic processing in Jörg Wickram's Weltlich Losbuch (1539). They also became the subject of fools' literature .

Texts and reference works that contain ordered dream interpretations are called dream books.

See also

literature

Historical works

  • Ernst Voulliéme (Ed.): Losbuch. A joking fortune telling book printed by Martin Flach in Basel around 1485. Based on the only known copy in the Prussian State Library in Berlin . Berlin 1923
  • Konrad Bollstatter : A medieval fortune telling game. Konrad Bollstatter's Losbuch in CGM 312 of the Bavarian State Library in Munich . Facsimile edition: Wiesbaden 1973, reprint: Wiesbaden 1978
  • Steven Roger Fischer, The Somniarium. A medieval dream book. Bern etc. 1989. ISBN 3-261-03868-3
  • Lot book in German rhyming pairs. Complete facsimile edition in the original format of Codex Vindobonensis Series Nova 2652 of the Austrian National Library . Graz no year
  • Falk Eisermann, Eckhard Graf (ed.): The book of the forbidden arts. Medieval superstition and sorcery . Extended new edition. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-424-01424-9 .
  • Eyn loszbuch made from the cards. And all thought up by kurtzweyl but whoever wanted to believe in it. The same was wrong. Photolithographic reproduction of the only known copy owned by Volckmann & Jerosch, antiquarian bookshop in Rostock. With an introduction by Dr. Adolf Hofmeister. Custos at the Grand Ducal University Library in Rostock. Volckmann & Jerosch, Rostock 1890. L 2680 in the VD 16 . USTC 656183 . archive.org

Secondary literature

  • Ludger Grenzmann: Traumbuch Artemidori : On the tradition of the first translation into German by WH Ryff . Baden-Baden 1980 (= Saecula spiritalia , 2).
  • Marie-Cécile van Hasselt: Les livres de sorts en Italie de 1482 à 1551. L'imaginaire astrologique, les systèmes de causalité et la marge de liberté accordée à l'individu . Dissertation. Paris 1997
  • Günther G. Bauer (Ed.): Fortune telling games, lottery and oracle books from five centuries. Catalog of the exhibition at Kleßheim Castle from August 27th to October 31st, 1997 . Salzburg 1997
  • Francis B. Brévart: 'Losbuch' (rhymed). In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 5, Col. 912 f.
  • Klaus Speckenbach: Dream books. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 9, Col. 1014-1027.
  • Nigel F. Palmer , Klaus Speckenbach: Dreams and Herbs. Studies on Petroneller's ' Circa instans ' handwriting and on the German dream books of the Middle Ages . Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1990 (= Pictura et poesis. Interdisciplinary studies on the relationship between literature and art , 4).
  • Marco Heiles: The lottery book. Manuscriptology of a text type from the 14th to 16th centuries . (= Supplements to the archive for cultural history , 83). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-50904-0

Web links

Wikisource: Lot books  - sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to Speckenbach can be subdivided into content- related dream books , dream lunars , lottery books and physiological-medical dream books .
  2. ↑ Klaus Speckenbach: dream books. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 1411-1415.