Catastrophe mundi, or, Europe's many mutations until the year 1701 being an astrological treatise of the effects of the triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter 1682 and 1683, and of the comets 1680 and 1682, and other configurations concomitant : wherein the fate of Europe for these next 20 years is ... more than probably conjectured ... : also, an ephimeris [sic] of all the comets that have appeared from ... 1603 to the year 1682 ... : whereunto is annexed the hieroglyphicks of Nostrodamus ... / by John Holwell.

Catastrophes in the sky. Sixteenth-century writers and ominous predictions

Giordano Rodda

July 2021

Common in manuscript form since the Middle Ages, with the invention of printing, predictions, iudici...

An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall progosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hierglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks.

Bainbridge, John, 1582-1643.

January 1618

[8], 42, [2] p., folded plateThe last leaf is blank.A variant of the edition with imprint: London, p...

Observations upon the strange & wonderful prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury, now prisoner in the gate-house for high trason with astrological predictions for the year, 1680 : shewing, from the choicest rules in the sidereal sciences, what grand revolutions or accidents are likely to happen in every month, respectively, in many parts of the world, especially, England, Scotland, & Ireland : as also, the death of the Pope fore-told, etc.

January 1680

4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library

Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

January 1652

[6], 76 p. : ill.Advertisement: p. [6].Reproduction of original in Huntington Library

An ephemeris for the year 1652 being leap year, and a year of wonders. Prognosticating the ruine of monarchy throughout Europe; and a change of the law. Ministered by rational predictions: 1. from the eclipses of the moon. 2. From that most terrible eclipse of the sun. 3. By monethly observations, as seasonable warnings given to the kings of Europe, more especially to France and Portugal. By Nich: Culpeper, gent. student astrol.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

[2], 5-30, [66] p. : ill.Annotation on Thomason copy: "1651. Nouemb"; the 1 in the date has been cro...

Between astrological divination, local knowledge and political intentions: Prognostics and “epignostics” related to natural disasters in the Middle Ages

Rohr, Christian

June 2022

As the term “disaster” (a “corruption of the stars”) shows, the connection between comets, planetary...

An ephemeris for the yeer 1651 amplified with rational predictions from the book of the creatures. 1. Of the state of the yeer. 2. What may probably be the effects of the conjunction of Saturn and Mars, July 9. 1650. in Scotland, Holland, Zealand, York, Amsterdam, &c. and about what time they may probably happen. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in astrology and physick, in Spittle-fields, next door to the Red Lyon.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

January 1651

[80] p. : ill.Signatures: [A]-K⁴.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 9. 1650".Reproduction of the ori...

The Bloody almanack; or, Astrological predictions, and monthly observations; denoting and setting forth, I. The great changes, mutations, and revolutions, that will happen in the year of Christ, 1655. And the direfull actions, and memorable accidents that will befall some great ones in authority, who have inriched themselvs by the sweat of other mens browes. II. The particulars of the greatest catastrophe that ever happened in England, the calling to an account some of the Common-wealths servants, who are now become her masters; and the making of divers headless. III. A diary of the national affairs, the proceedings of the nobles, and a most excellent antidote to cure the malady of the Commons, and to confirm and establish our long-desired liberties. IV. The arraignment and conviction of divers time-buggering changlings, and the admirable effects that will attend the motion of our lawfull governors. V. The rectifying of the magistracy, the administring of true justice to the commonalty, and the exaltation of our long contended for liberty. VI. The violent diseases that will prove obnoxious and incident both to men, and women; and a brief computation of the royal chronicle. Published by authority.

January 1655

8 p.In imprint date: second "5" crossed out and replaced with ms. "4."Reproduction of original in th...

Van den Noorden alle ‘t quaet gecomen: Religion and the comet of 1577 in French and Dutch prognostications (1570s-1600s)

Janssen, Cara

January 2015

In November 1577 a ‘long tailed comet’ spread its wings across Europe. In the Spanish-Habsburg Nethe...

A ryghte excellente treatise of astronomie made in the Thuscane or Italian tongue, by maister Antonius de Montulmo, called in latin Facies cœli, the face of the Heues wherin a man may see tofore hand the mutations of the ayre that shall happen for this present yeare of our lorde 1554, [and] 1555, next folowyng, declaryng also what diseases, warres, pestilence, dearth of victuals shal happen to them that dwelle in the eyght climate vnder the eleuation of the pole artike 52. degrees as the inhabitantes of the most part of England do dwelle. Translated into English by Frederike van Brunswike.

Montulmo, Antonius de.
Frederick van Brunswick.

[78] p. : ill.Actual printer's name and publication date from STC.Signatures: A-E (-E8).Reproduction...

An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since the year 1742 : including a particular detail of the return of the famous comet of 1682 in 1759, according to the calculation and prediction of Dr. Halley ... to which is prefixed A letter upon comets ... by the late M. de Maupertuis ...

Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759. Lettre sur la comète. English. 1770.

January 1770

Freitag lists only the London 1769 ed. of this title.Author statement from bibliographical citations...

Cometomantia, A discourse of comets shewing their original, substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages ... : where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies : both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places.

Edwards, John, 1637-1716.

January 1684

[14], 296 p.Attributed to J. Edwards. Cf Wing.Errata: p. [13].Reproduction of original in Harvard Un...

Mr. Patric-h's [sic] prophecy, or, A prognostication of the year 1690 wherein the most considerable mutations and events like to befall the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, and of the states of the Netherlands, &c. are foreshewed. Also an account of the proceedings of all the twelve months; and of the happy affairs of the King of Great Britain and the states of Holland, and the great damages likely to befall France and Ireland / by J.P. prefessor [sic] of astrology.

Partridge, John, 1644-1715.

January 1690

8 p.Attributed to John Partridge. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.)."Licens'd according to order."Reproduction of...

Catastrophe Galliæ, or, The French king's fatal downfal: predicted to happen in or about the years 1691 or 92 : together with his nativity, calculated according to the rules of astrology : as likewise that of the present emperor of Germany and the grand signior : with probable conjectures upon the Turks new eruptions into Europe : all humbly submitted to the candid and ingenuous sons of art / by J.P. ...

Merrifield, John.

January 1691

[8], 40 p. : ill.Errata: p. [8].Advertisements: p. 35 & 40.Imperfect: stained and torn, with loss of...

PLANETARY CATASTROPHES AND THE HALLEY’S COMET

Treschalin, Michail

January 2014

The author performs the analysis of historical materials, myths and legends concerning connection of...

Catastrophes in the sky. Sixteenth-century writers and ominous predictions

Giordano Rodda

July 2021

Common in manuscript form since the Middle Ages, with the invention of printing, predictions, iudici...

An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall progosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hierglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks.

Bainbridge, John, 1582-1643.

January 1618

[8], 42, [2] p., folded plateThe last leaf is blank.A variant of the edition with imprint: London, p...

Observations upon the strange & wonderful prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury, now prisoner in the gate-house for high trason with astrological predictions for the year, 1680 : shewing, from the choicest rules in the sidereal sciences, what grand revolutions or accidents are likely to happen in every month, respectively, in many parts of the world, especially, England, Scotland, & Ireland : as also, the death of the Pope fore-told, etc.

January 1680

4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library

Catastrophe magnatum, or, The fall of monarchie a caveat to magistrates, deduced from the eclipse of the sunne, March 29, 1652, with a probable conjecture of the determination of the effects / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

January 1652

[6], 76 p. : ill.Advertisement: p. [6].Reproduction of original in Huntington Library

An ephemeris for the year 1652 being leap year, and a year of wonders. Prognosticating the ruine of monarchy throughout Europe; and a change of the law. Ministered by rational predictions: 1. from the eclipses of the moon. 2. From that most terrible eclipse of the sun. 3. By monethly observations, as seasonable warnings given to the kings of Europe, more especially to France and Portugal. By Nich: Culpeper, gent. student astrol.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

[2], 5-30, [66] p. : ill.Annotation on Thomason copy: "1651. Nouemb"; the 1 in the date has been cro...

Between astrological divination, local knowledge and political intentions: Prognostics and “epignostics” related to natural disasters in the Middle Ages

Rohr, Christian

June 2022

As the term “disaster” (a “corruption of the stars”) shows, the connection between comets, planetary...

An ephemeris for the yeer 1651 amplified with rational predictions from the book of the creatures. 1. Of the state of the yeer. 2. What may probably be the effects of the conjunction of Saturn and Mars, July 9. 1650. in Scotland, Holland, Zealand, York, Amsterdam, &c. and about what time they may probably happen. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in astrology and physick, in Spittle-fields, next door to the Red Lyon.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

January 1651

[80] p. : ill.Signatures: [A]-K⁴.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 9. 1650".Reproduction of the ori...

The Bloody almanack; or, Astrological predictions, and monthly observations; denoting and setting forth, I. The great changes, mutations, and revolutions, that will happen in the year of Christ, 1655. And the direfull actions, and memorable accidents that will befall some great ones in authority, who have inriched themselvs by the sweat of other mens browes. II. The particulars of the greatest catastrophe that ever happened in England, the calling to an account some of the Common-wealths servants, who are now become her masters; and the making of divers headless. III. A diary of the national affairs, the proceedings of the nobles, and a most excellent antidote to cure the malady of the Commons, and to confirm and establish our long-desired liberties. IV. The arraignment and conviction of divers time-buggering changlings, and the admirable effects that will attend the motion of our lawfull governors. V. The rectifying of the magistracy, the administring of true justice to the commonalty, and the exaltation of our long contended for liberty. VI. The violent diseases that will prove obnoxious and incident both to men, and women; and a brief computation of the royal chronicle. Published by authority.

January 1655

8 p.In imprint date: second "5" crossed out and replaced with ms. "4."Reproduction of original in th...

Van den Noorden alle ‘t quaet gecomen: Religion and the comet of 1577 in French and Dutch prognostications (1570s-1600s)

Janssen, Cara

January 2015

In November 1577 a ‘long tailed comet’ spread its wings across Europe. In the Spanish-Habsburg Nethe...

A ryghte excellente treatise of astronomie made in the Thuscane or Italian tongue, by maister Antonius de Montulmo, called in latin Facies cœli, the face of the Heues wherin a man may see tofore hand the mutations of the ayre that shall happen for this present yeare of our lorde 1554, [and] 1555, next folowyng, declaryng also what diseases, warres, pestilence, dearth of victuals shal happen to them that dwelle in the eyght climate vnder the eleuation of the pole artike 52. degrees as the inhabitantes of the most part of England do dwelle. Translated into English by Frederike van Brunswike.

Montulmo, Antonius de.
Frederick van Brunswick.

[78] p. : ill.Actual printer's name and publication date from STC.Signatures: A-E (-E8).Reproduction...

An essay towards a history of the principal comets that have appeared since the year 1742 : including a particular detail of the return of the famous comet of 1682 in 1759, according to the calculation and prediction of Dr. Halley ... to which is prefixed A letter upon comets ... by the late M. de Maupertuis ...

Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759. Lettre sur la comète. English. 1770.

January 1770

Freitag lists only the London 1769 ed. of this title.Author statement from bibliographical citations...

Cometomantia, A discourse of comets shewing their original, substance, place, time, magnitude, motion, number, colour, figure, kinds, names, and more especially, their prognosticks, significations and presages ... : where also is inserted an essay of judiciary astrology, giving satisfaction to this grand question, whether any certain judgments and predictions concerning future events, can be made from the observation of the heavenly bodies : both occasioned by the appearance of the late comets in England and other places.

Edwards, John, 1637-1716.

January 1684

[14], 296 p.Attributed to J. Edwards. Cf Wing.Errata: p. [13].Reproduction of original in Harvard Un...

Mr. Patric-h's [sic] prophecy, or, A prognostication of the year 1690 wherein the most considerable mutations and events like to befall the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, and of the states of the Netherlands, &c. are foreshewed. Also an account of the proceedings of all the twelve months; and of the happy affairs of the King of Great Britain and the states of Holland, and the great damages likely to befall France and Ireland / by J.P. prefessor [sic] of astrology.

Partridge, John, 1644-1715.

January 1690

8 p.Attributed to John Partridge. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.)."Licens'd according to order."Reproduction of...

Catastrophe Galliæ, or, The French king's fatal downfal: predicted to happen in or about the years 1691 or 92 : together with his nativity, calculated according to the rules of astrology : as likewise that of the present emperor of Germany and the grand signior : with probable conjectures upon the Turks new eruptions into Europe : all humbly submitted to the candid and ingenuous sons of art / by J.P. ...

Merrifield, John.

January 1691

[8], 40 p. : ill.Errata: p. [8].Advertisements: p. 35 & 40.Imperfect: stained and torn, with loss of...

PLANETARY CATASTROPHES AND THE HALLEY’S COMET

Treschalin, Michail

January 2014

The author performs the analysis of historical materials, myths and legends concerning connection of...

Catastrophes in the sky. Sixteenth-century writers and ominous predictions

Giordano Rodda

July 2021

Common in manuscript form since the Middle Ages, with the invention of printing, predictions, iudici...

An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following. With certaine morall progosticks or applications drawne from the comets motion and irradiation amongst the celestiall hierglyphicks. By vigilant and diligent obseruations of Iohn Bainbridge Doctor of Physicke, and louer of the mathematicks.

Bainbridge, John, 1582-1643.

January 1618

[8], 42, [2] p., folded plateThe last leaf is blank.A variant of the edition with imprint: London, p...

Observations upon the strange & wonderful prophecies of Mr. John Gadbury, now prisoner in the gate-house for high trason with astrological predictions for the year, 1680 : shewing, from the choicest rules in the sidereal sciences, what grand revolutions or accidents are likely to happen in every month, respectively, in many parts of the world, especially, England, Scotland, & Ireland : as also, the death of the Pope fore-told, etc.

January 1680

4 p.Caption title.Imprint from colophon.Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library

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