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Description:

The first horoscope (no. 1), prepared by Johann Henrich Voigt sometime during the 1670s or 1680s, includes a contemporary biographical note on inside front cover: "Joh. Henrich Vogts Nativitat über den H. Baron Alexander von Enken welcher zu Bremen 1650 d. 7 July gebohrn und 1687 im Martio auff der insul Zante an einem hitzgen Fieber gestorben als Chur Sächsischer Cammerherr und General Major und Chef der Chur Sächsischen Auxiliar Truppen in Morea…"

Description:

The second horoscope (no. 2), also prepared by Johann Henrich Voigt, is dated 1678. [fol. A recto] The following is noted: "Gründliches undt gantz außfürliches Judicium Chiromantico physiognomico Astronomicum Horoscopon oder nativitat ... zu großeren Nützen des Leibes undt der Seelen beschrieben… Anno 1678."

Description:

The author of the third volume (no. 3), "Judicium Chiromantico Physiognomico Astrologicum...," is unknown.

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of three individually bound horoscopes, circa 1678, in German and some Latin, all prepared for Baron Alexander von Enke (1650-87), who served in the army of the Electorate of Saxony and fought against the Ottoman Turks during the Great Turkish War (1683-1699). Von Enke died of a fever on the Ionian Greek island of Zakynthos (Zante) in 1687. Johann Henrich Voigt (1613-1691), an astronomer, astrologer, and almanac-compiler, who lived in Stade (a city north of Hamburg) and other places, prepared two of the volumes. The author of the third is unknown.

Acquisition:

Purchase, 2015 (AM 2015-67).

Appraisal

No materials were separated during 2015 processing.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in February 2015. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in February 2015.

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Credit this material:

Alexander von Enke Horoscopes; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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