Introductiones apotelesmaticae elegantes in chyromantiam, physiognomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarum

This is a sixteenth century printed manual on chiromancy and physiognomy by Johannes ab Indagine, a German clergyman, printed by Johannes Schott in Strasbourg in 1522. It belongs to the same genre as other early modern hand reading and face reading manuals, a practitioner setting out his own system of correspondences between bodily signs and character or fate, presented as established knowledge rather than as a claim he argues for. Its value to the atlas is as a primary record of what educated Renaissance Europe believed chiromancy and physiognomy could tell you, not as evidence that the system describes anything real. It carries no external verification of its claims, no revisions correcting earlier editions, and no modern editorial apparatus attached to this printing, so any reading of it here should be understood as reporting the source's own claims, not endorsing them.