Tübingen house book
The Tübingen house book is a German-language manuscript with numerous colored pen drawings from the late Middle Ages in the possession of the University Library of Tübingen (signature: Md 2).
It is an Iatromathematical calendar book, i. H. a medical-astrological script. It was probably built around the middle of the 15th century in the Ulm / Urach area and came into the possession of the university library in 1752 from the estate of Johann Jacob Schmid , the city pastor in Ebingen . The binding was made in the Güterstein Charterhouse . It was restored a few years ago.
The content of this manuscript is extremely varied: A calendar with various bloodletting rules and tables for astronomical and astrological calculations is followed by a treatise on the signs of the zodiac and the children of the zodiac with prognoses on the characteristics and fates of the people born under the respective zodiac. This is followed by extensive fortune telling teachings ( geomancy or lottery books) as well as treatises on astronomy and medieval planets.