Barptolomaei Coclitis bononiensis, naturalis philosophiae ac medicinae doctoris, Physiognomiae & chiromantiae compendium
Contributors: Corve, André
Publisher: Apvd Ioannem Albrecht
Published: 1533
Place of publication: Argentorati
Language: lat
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Physiognomy; Early works to 1800; Palmistry; Early works to 1850
Other titles: Physiognomiae & chiromantiae compendium; Physiognomiae et chiromantiae compendium; Absolutissima ratio chyromantiae.
Notes: First published at Bologna, 1504, as Chyromantie ac physiognomie anastasis (with Alessandro Achillini's De chyromantiae principiis et physionomiae).

Comprises a preface by Cocles, an anonymous handbook of physiognomy in 25 brief chapters, and "Andreae Corvi mirandvlani Absolutissima ratio chyromantiae."

Title (A1r) within ornamental border (Heitz, X, 6). Cuts of 29 heads illustrate the Physiognomia. They are in pairs, except for one that is single. For most of the Chiromantia (D4r to O2v), each page consists of a diagram of the palm of a hand over its explanation in letterpress. The palms are on floral or foliate backgrounds, many of them printed white on black. On D3v is a full-page diagram of a palm, labelled in German (repeated on O3r).

Signatures: A-Nα O⁴.