Liber Astronomiae (Treatise 7)

Guido Bonatti

Revolutions of nativities (annual profections + solar return) and the timing of life events.

Treatise 7:
Chapter 1: On elections, according to the sayings of the wise
Chapter 2: On those things which are considered in this Treatise
Chapter 3: On the root of elections
Chapter 4: On the adaptation of particulars
Chapter 5: That an election ought to agree with the nature of the matter
Chapter 6: That the beginning of a matter does not exist before the
Chapter 7: How diverse planets are adapted for diverse people
Chapter 8: What kind of end may be hoped for concerning the matter
Chapter 9: How a sign should be adapted
Chapter 10: How a planet should be adapted
Chapter 11: Again on the same topic
Chapter 12: On the weakening of the planets
Chapter 13: On particular things which pertain to elections
Chapter 14: What things ought to be considered in the beginnings of
Chapter 15: If the matter about which a question were proposed by
Chapter 16: When that which was undertaken is to be believed that it
Chapter 17: From which planets the signification of times is taken
Chapter 18: On the fixed, common, and movable signs
Chapter 19: On the common signs
Chapter 1: Preamble to particular elections of the houses
Chapter 1: On nursing boys
Chapter 2: On the weaning of boys from milk
Chapter 4: On the cutting of hair and the shaving of the beard
Chapter 5: On the circumcision of boys[245]
Chapter 1: On lending and taking
Chapter 2: On wealth, that it may remain always in the possession of
Chapter 3: When the taker does not wish that the loan be known
Chapter 4: On buying for the purpose of making money
Chapter 5: In other common purchases and things commonly done
Chapter 6: If someone wanted to sell some thing in order to make
Chapter 7: If someone wanted to practice alchemy
Chapter 8: On another way of lending money
Chapter 9: On the entrance into a house or inn in order to live in it
Chapter 1: On short journeys
Chapter 2: On the reconciliation of brothers and other blood-relatives,
Chapter 3: On those things which pertain to a divine cult and the
Chapter 1: On the buying of houses or inheritances, and the like
Chapter 2: On the reconciliation of a father with a son
Chapter 3: In the building of cities or castles or houses and the like, and
Chapter 4: On the building of houses
Chapter 5: On the building of churches
Chapter 6: On the destruction of constructed buildings
Chapter 7: On the renting or leasing of houses or lands or vineyards or
Chapter 8: On the extending of rivers or canals and the like
Chapter 9: On the planting of trees and fig-trees
Chapter 10: On the sowing of seeds which we intend to bear fruit in the
Chapter 11: On beginning to cultivate inheritances
Chapter 12: On putting together ships or galleys[346]
Chapter 13: On the building of mills
Chapter 1: On the reconciliation of a son with his father
Chapter 2: On the sending of legates or heralds
Chapter 3: On the donning of new vestments or their cutting[358]
Chapter 4: On the generation or conceiving of a son or daughter
Chapter 5: On taking out aborted children from a woman
Chapter 6: On handing over a son to instruction
Chapter 7: On giving and taking gifts
Chapter 1: On the healing of the sick
Chapter 2: On taking medical treatment on the occasion of some
Chapter 3: On a general cure to be used for the head
Chapter 4: If you want to apply a cure to the nostrils
Chapter 5: If someone wished to heal the eyes
Chapter 6: On the particular cure of any other official member
Chapter 7: On remedies which come about through surgery
Chapter 8: On electing the hour for one wanting to practice
Chapter 9: On giving purgative medicines by defecation
Chapter 10: On giving medicines producing vomiting
Chapter 11: On sneezing, gargling, vomiting, and like things by the
Chapter 12: On entering baths or the anointing of annora or psilotrum
Chapter 13: On the buying of captives, slaves, and the like
Chapter 14: On the freeing of incarcerated people or of captives or the
Chapter 15: On the buying of animals, both of those which are ridden
Chapter 16: On the buying of birds with which we hunt other birds
Chapter 17: On the doctor's approaching the patient
Chapter 1: On marriage
Chapter 2: On partnership and participation in a useful cause, and
Chapter 3: On the electing of the hours for going to war or for
Chapter 4: On the discovery of the combust hours [482]
Chapter 5: On raising military flags or large banners or pennants
Chapter 6: On arms or war horses or other instruments pertaining to
Chapter 8: On the hour to be elected for expelling or ejecting
Chapter 9: On the purchasing of all things generally, both of movable
Chapter 10: On the buying of seeds for fields or gardens, etc., like grain,
Chapter 11: On the taking and loaning of money
Chapter 12: On the hunting of birds, wild beasts, and fishes, by land
Chapter 13: On games with dice,15401 which in another way are a cause
Chapter 14: How something can be known about something that is said
Chapter 15: If you wish to search for a thief[551]
Chapter 16: When it is the intention of the pursuer to harm him who
Chapter 17: If someone wished to track down something from a thief
Chapter 1: On the election of the return of someone absent
Chapter 2: On the adaptation of an election of inheritance
Chapter 3: On making a will or codicil
Chapter 1: On the entrance into some city or other place
Chapter 2: On the beginning of general journeys not pertaining to war
Chapter 3: On singing lessons, either for musicians or others
Chapter 1: On the election of kings and nobles, or of great men and the
Chapter 2: On the promotion to a kingdom or duchy or other dignity
Chapter 3: On the enthronement of the kingdom or duchy or other
Chapter 4: If someone wished to go and stay with a king or duke or
Chapter 5: If someone wished to make an enemy of the king or a duke
Chapter 6: On reconciling with a king or duke or similar men
Chapter 7: On the taking away of some dignity
Chapter 8: On the instruction of morals
Chapter 9: On lessons in fighting or doing battle or having contests
Chapter 10: On swimming lessons
Chapter 11: On lessons of things generally
Chapter 1: On those things concerning which we have hope or trust of
Chapter 2: When someone wishes to seek from some person, so that he
Chapter 3: whether it were promised to him or not[643]
Chapter 1: On the racing of horses or other animals, both rational and
Chapter 2: On the buying of large animals, both horses and others of

Chart conventions and source methods matter. A source reference does not by itself establish a personal interpretation. Missing context can make a method unavailable. Documented lives are examples, not proof of predictive accuracy.