Indagine, Johann. Jaeger?,trans.

"Translation of much of the Astrological part of Indagine."

      England: Second half of the 19th c. 4to. 24p bound+12p loose+ 3x5 card. 19th century 1/2 vellum over marbled boards, title on paper label on front cover, old owners cryptogram E.H., some of the blank endpapers at either end cut away. Astrological chart and table. John ab Indagine (or von Hagen, or Jager) (ca.1467-1537) , a priest at Steinheim near Frankfurt, dedicated his work, a series of tractates on astrology and chiromancy, to Albrecht, the archbishop of Mainz, along with an attack on scholastic theology. In his work he advocates a natural astrology (i.e., one which observes merely the movement of the sun and the moon) as opposed to an artificial astrology; the work was subsequently specifically named on Pope Paul IV's Index in 1559. Indagine "was an extremely learned man in many fields, and at one time acted as an ambassador to the Pope, though it appears that he had many sympathies with the revolutionary theories of the day..." Gettings p177. This is a manuscript translation of the astrological portions of Indagine's work. The loose leaves seem to be in a different hand and cover other materials of Indagine. The bound manuscript is in a good readable hand. About 34 lines of close writings on each page. The loose card is an astrological chart. The endpaper of the book has the date "1845" in the watermark and the manuscript dates from around that period. Someone has added the note that Jaeger has done the translation but we do not know who this refers to.