A brief and most pleasau[n]t epitomye of the whole art of phisiognomie, gathered out of Aristotle, Rasis, Formica, Loxius, Phylemo[n], Palemo[n], Consiliator, Morbeth the Cardinal and others many moe, by that learned chyrurgian Cocles: and englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner
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- A brief and most pleasau[n]t epitomye of the whole art of phisiognomie, gathered out of Aristotle, Rasis, Formica, Loxius, Phylemo[n], Palemo[n], Consiliator, Morbeth the Cardinal and others many moe, by that learned chyrurgian Cocles: and englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner
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- Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Waylande,
- [1556]
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- Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"A brief and most pleasau[n]t epitomye of the whole art of phisiognomie, gathered out of Aristotle, Rasis, Formica, Loxius, Phylemo[n], Palemo[n], Consiliator, Morbeth the Cardinal and others many moe, by that learned chyrurgian Cocles: and englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19052.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.
Contents
- title page
- To the right worshipful Ma∣ster George keable Esquier, Thomas Hyll wysheth pros∣perytye.
- The Preface To the Reader.
- The firste Chapter.
- The signes of the body of a colde compleccyon. The. ii. Chapter.
- The signes of the body of a moyst compleccyon. The. iii. Chapter.
- The signes of the bodye of a drye compleccyon. The. iiii. Chapter.
- The sygnes of a temperate and healthful body. The. v. Chapter.
- The sygnes of a distemperate, and vnhealthful body. The. vi. Chapter,
- The signes of a good nature and memorye. The. vii. Chapter.
- The significacyons of hote and dry bo∣dyes after Rasis. The. viii. Chapter.
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The significations of cold and moyst
bodies after Rasis. The. ix. Chapter. - Of the heare of the head. The. x. Chapter.
- Of the head. The. xi. Chapter.
- Of the forehead The .xii. Chapter.
- Of the ouerbrowes, of the cies. The .xiii. Chapter.
- Of the eie lyddes. The. xiiii. Chapter.
- Of the spaces betwene the eie browes. The. xv. Chapter.
- Of the eyes. The. xvi. Chapter.
- Of the nose. The. xvii. Chapter.
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Of the mouth.
The. xviii. Chapter, - Of the lyppes. The .xix. Chapter.
- Of the Teathe. The .xx. Chapter.
- Of the tounge. The. xxi. Chapter.
- Of the sygnyfycacion of the voyce. The. xxii. Chapter.
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Of the breath.
The. xiii. Chapter. - Of laughter. The. xxiiii. chapter.
- Of the chynne. The. xxv. chapter.
- Of the nature of the bearde. The. xxvi. chapter.
- Of the face▪ The. xxvii. chapter.
- Of the sygnyfycacyon of the eares. The. xxviii. Chapter.
- Of the throte. The. xxix. Chapter.
- Of the sygnyfycacions of the necke. The. xxx. chapter.
- Of the coloure of the hole bodye. The. xxxi. Chapter.
- Of the Phisiognomye of the armes. The. xxxii. Chapter.
- Of the significacions of the breast and ribbes. The. xxxiii. Chapter.
- Of the Phisiognomy of the handes. The .xxxiiii. Capter.
- Of the belly, backe, greate guttes, and haunches, with the legges to the fet. The. xxxv. Chapter.
- Of the hole stature of man. The. xxxvi. Chapter.
- A conclusion or briefe rehearsall of the whole arte of Phisi∣ognomie.