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A30105	Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5462A; ESTC R208625	185,856	386

people the people presently hide their eyes with their Hands it being unlawfull for any to behold the Hands of the Priest as it is written Behold he stands behind the wall he looketh forth at the window shewing himselfe through the Lattice That is God stands behinde the Priest and looketh through the windowes and lattices that is through the spread Hands and dispersed Fingers of the Priest which the Hebrewes cast the windowes and lattices of the Hand The Rubriques of the Romish Rites which seeme a little to squint this way prescribe three formes of Benediction for the Hands of the Priest The holding up of the Hands before the breast The crossing of the Thumbes and the turning the little finger towards the people All which have their severall seasons and significations in their Liturgie Our blessed Saviour was a manifest observer of the Naturall forme of Benediction and hath sanctified the Gesture to a more divine importance After Christ● ascension the Apostles communicating the vertue of his last Benediction to o●hers in th● conveyances thereof used the same expressions by gesture and were famous for the effectuall force of their prospering Hands their exemplary action was copied out by then successors the illustrious Fathers of the Primitive Church whose Hands preserved Blessing as their lips Knowledge Christians in those ●ges being devoutly ambitious of such benefits thought themselves happy when they could receive this spirituall favour at their Hands There is a story in Gregorie Nyssen of a Deacon of the Bishop of N●ocaesaria who in respect of the wonderful strange things which he wrought by his inspired Hands was sirnamed Thaumaturgus Which Deacon being to goe a long and adventurous journey requested a Blessing at the Hands of his Dioce●an who li●ting up his Hands most willingly bestowed this Manuall viaticum upon him This comfortable elevation of the Hand in Benediction hath a force at this day in the Hands of our Reverend Divines And verily there is no Blessing formally confer'd or authentically administred unlesse the Hands denote their suffrages by their visible attendance and appeare in a due conformitie to the words ditected unto the eare And I never saw any Grave or Orthodox Divine from the Pulpit dismissing the People with a Blessing without this adjunct and formall concurrence of the Hands An Index to the following Rhetoricall Alphabet of MANUALL Significations A Figures out the XIX Canon B FIgures out the I Can. C FIgures out the II Can. digit D FIgures out the III Can. digit E FIgures out the II Can. F FIgures out the X Can. G FIgures out the IX Can. H FIgures out the VIII Can. I FIgures out the XXVI Can. digit K FIgures out the XI Can. L FIgures out the XXIV Can. M FIgures out the XXXII Can. N FIgures out the XXXIII Can. O FIgures out the VII Can. P FIgures out the XLVII Can. Q FIgures out the VIII Can. Digit R FIgures out the XLIV Can. S FIgures out the XLV Can. T FIgures out the XLVIII Can. V FIgures out the XXXIV Can. W FIgures out the XXXV Can. X FIgures out the XL Canon Y FIgures out the XXXVII Can. Z FIgures out the XLIX Can. The use of this following Table besides the exhibition of the Manuall Figures of Rhetorick may be for an Alphabet of Privie cyphers for any kinde of Secret intimation To make up the Alphabet C. D. I. Q. are taken in out of those supernumerary Gestures following under the Title of Indigitatio A Pacificat B Auditores mitigabit C Meotericis orditur D ad monstrandū valet E Modus agendi F Admiratur G Hortatur H Rationes profert I Flocci facit K Deprecatur L Sic ostendebit seipsum M Negabit N ꝑspicuitatem illustrat O Exclamationem aptat P Antithes in exornat Q Argumenta digorit R Benovolentiam ostendit S Com̄iserationem denotut T Im̄ensitatem aperit V Valdè aversatur W Execratione repellit X Addubitabit Y Dolebit Z Benedictione dimittit INDIGITATIO Or The CANONS of the Fingers Canon I. THe two inferior Fingers shut in and the other three presented in an eminent posture in the extended Hand is a speaking Action significant to demand silence and procure audience The ancient Oratours when they prepar'd to speake to the incomposed multitude used this action Of which gesture of the Fingers Apuleius hath left a certificate where Telephron porrigit dextram instar oratorum conformat articulum duobusque infimis conclusis digitis caeteros eminentes porrigit infesto pollice clementer subrigens i●sit Fulgentius expounds this common fashion of the Hand after this manner Itaque compositus in dicendi modum erectisque in iotam duobus digitis tertium pollice comprimens ita verba exorsus est who differ not much but that one makes the Thumbe erect the other comprest Many have made mention of this matter Libanius where he describes Nestor painted in the middest of the Hero's Orationem apud ipsos habere videbatur idque significare conformatione digitorum but what that conformation of the Fingers was he doth not explaine But the most usuall garbe of the Hand in way of preparative to speech was this of Apuleius Which posture of the Hand preparing the Auditours attention is found in many Statues of the Ancients There is a Colossus at Rome which in times past stood in the Baines of Anthony the left hand whereof leaneth upon a club but the two first Fingers of the Right Hand extended out with the Thumbe such as of old time was the gesture of Oratours speaking as Grutterus notes which most authenticall copie of speech they seem to have followed whose Hand the golden History of the Crosse in Cheap was for there were to be seene two statues of mitred Prelates having their Hands figured in this manner as if they were speaking to the people And in old hangings in whose contexture most part of the Historicall discourse is represented and insinuated by gestures of the Hand And in all ancient painted tables where any counterfeit of speech is exhibited nothing so obvious and remarkable as this Rhetoricall posture of the Fingers And the inventions and painted Histories of our moderne Artists in their representations of speech had in publicke have a constant relation and respect unto this ancient forme of the Fingers And over the ancient images of the Prophets which pollished by the Hands of the Jesuits come over to us from the Mart there is usually a Hand extended out of Heaven impail'd about with rayes the Fingers retaining this gesture as it were the Index of God speaking to his Prophets as He was wont to doe of old when He stirred up their hearts and suggested His sacred Oracles unto them For since they could not by any fitting semblance or fancied pourtraiture of inventive wit describe God as He is in Himselfe lest impiety should have tainted their imagination and they should seeme to make the Prophet equall to his God

gesture to the more visible and significant application of his miraculous cures He gave sight to the blinde yet not without touching the eye Hearing to the deafe not without thrusting his Finger into the eare and speech to the dumbe yet not without wetting the tongue most with this gesture of IMPOSITION Thus by TOUCHING Simons wifes mothers Hand He cured her of her feaver Thus by PUTTING FORTH HIS HAND AND TOUCHING the leper He healed him of his leprosie Thus by LAYING HANDS on the woman that was troubled with a spirit of infirmity he loosed her from her dise●se and made streight her bowed body And it is said of Him that he could doe no great workes in his owne Countrey by reason of their unbeleefe save that HE LAID HIS HANDS UPON a few sicke folkes and healed them And indeed their sutes that came unto him for helpe were commonly tendered and expressed in such formes of speech as shewed that he much used this significant expression of gesture For although as Fonseca truly observes the flesh of our Saviour for that it was the flesh of God gave life and health to all that touched it for a certain vertue went out from all parts of Him and cured all men as the woman that had the issue of bloud experimentally found yet He was pleased so to honor the Hand to use his Hand in the conveyance and application of that curative vertue as that which in nature is the most important significant member of the body he could have said the word only and it had been done but he would speak reliefe with his Hand Thus Jairus besought him to come and LAY THE HANDS UPON his sicke daughter that she might be healed and live And they who brought the deafe and stammering man unto Him besought Him to PUT HIS HAND UPON him whose requests were graciously answered in this desired and his accustomed formeof expression with his healing Hand And Expositors agree that they required no expression of pity from our Saviours Hands then what they had observed him to use thereby attributing unto him the honour and right of the chiefe Prophet For it was an expression used by the ancient Prophets as a holy charme against bodily infirmities And of the practice of this gesture attended with a visible successe the Heathens were not ignorant apparent by the speech of Naaman who was halfe wroth with Elisha for omitting this expression or pledge of health for the thought with himselfe that the Prophet would have come out and stood and called upon the name of the Lord his God and PUT HIS HAND UPON the place and heale the leprosie After the ascention of our Saviour his promise was fulfilled that they should LAY THEIR HANDS ON the sicke and they should be cured Thus Paul received his sight by the LAYING ON OF Ananias Hands And thus Paul healed the father of Publius Governour of the Islle of Melita now Malta Thus Peter TAKING the Cripple that sat at the gate of the Temple called Beautifull BY THE RIGHT HAND recovered him of his lamenesse But of all the curetorie miracles wrought by the vertue of this expression of the Apostles the casting out of Divells and freeing the possessed most astonished the people especially after those sons of one Sceva a Jewish exorcist had took in Hand to counterfeit that powerfull gift by an unwarrantable imitation and were soundly beaten for their apish and vain attempt After the Apostles times the exorcists an order in the Primitive Church used this curatorie adjunct in commending those to God who were disquieted with Divells ¶ The curative adjunct with a tangit te Rex sana te Deus is used in the conveyance of that Charisme or miraculous gift of healing which derived from the infancie of the Church the inaugured Monarchs of this Land so happily enjoy In which expression of their sanative vertue they not only surpasse the fabulous cures of Pyrrhus or Vespasian of which Plinie and others make mention but the pretended vertues of other Christian Monarchs And indeed it is a maxime Ecclesiasticke that no miracle is wrought out of the Church And this miraculous imposition of the Hand in curing the disease called the Struma which from the constant effect of that Sovereigne Salve is called the Kings Evill His sacred Majesty that now is hath practised with as good successe as any of His Royall Progenitours An Index of reference to the following Table or Alphabet of naturall expressions Which Gestures besides their typicall significations are so ordered to serve for privy cyphers for any secret intimation A Figures out the I Gesture B Figures out the II Gest. C Figures out the III Gest. D Figures out the IV Gest. E Figures out the V Gest. F Figures out the VI Gest. G Figures out the VII Gest. H Figures out the VIII Gest. I Figures out the IX Gest. K Figures out the X Gest. L Figures out the XI Gest. M Figures out the XII Gest. N Figures out the XIII Gest. O Figures out the XIV Gest. P Figures out the XV Gest. Q Figures out the XVI Gest. R Figures out the XVII Gest. S Figures out the XVIII Gest. T Figures out the XIX Gest. V Figures out the XX Gest. W Figures out the XXI Gest. X Figures out the XXII Gest. Y Figures out the XXIII Gest. Z Figures out the XXIV Gest. The necessary defect of these Chirograms in point of motion and percussion which Art cannot expresse must be supplied with imagination and a topicall reference to the order and number of their Gestures A Supplico B Oro. C Ploro D Admiror E Applaudo F Indignor G Explodo H Despero I Otio indulgeo K Tristitiā animi signo L Innocentiā ostendo M Lucri apprehensionē plaudo N Libertatem resigno O Protego P Triumpho Q Silentium postulo R Iuro S Assevero T Suffrago V Respuo W Invitoo X Dimittoo Y Minor Z Mendico An Index to the following Alphabet of naturall Gestures of the HAND Which Gestures besides their typicall significations are so ordered to serve for privy cyphers for any secret intimation A Figures out the XXV Gesture B Figures out the XXVI Gest. C Figures out the XXVIII Gest. D Figures out the XXXIII Gest. E Figures out the XXXIV Gest. F Figures out the XXXV Gest. G Figures out the XLII Gest. H Figures out the XLIII Gest. I Figures out the XLV Gest. K Figures out the XLVI Gest. L Figures out the XLVII Gest. M Figures out the XLVIII Gest. N Figures out the XLIX Gest. O Figures out the L Gest. P Figures out the LII Gest. Q Figures out the LIII Gest. R Figures out the LV Gest. S Figures out the LVI Gest. T Figures out the LVII Gest. V Figures out the LIX Gest. W Figures out the LX Gest. X Figures out the LXI Gest. Y Figures out the LXII Gest. Z Figures out

offending of those that are nigh are all Prevarications in Rhetorick noted and condemned by Quintilian Praevar Sect. 4. TO throw downe the Hand from the Head with the Fingers formed into a gripe or scratching posture or To use the action of one that Saws or Cuts or of one dancing the Pyrrhique lyard or To throw it upwards with the Palme turned up are actions prevaricant in Rhetorick and condemned by Quintilian Prevar Sect. 5. TO represent a Physitian feeling the pulse of the arteries which with them is manum mittere in carpum or To shew a Lutenist striking the chords of an instrument are kind of expressions to be avoided for an Oratour should bee farre from any light imitation of a Dancer and is not permitted to shew what hee speakes but his gesture must more expresse his sense then his words Praevar Sect. 6. TO denounce with a high Hand or To erect a Finger to its utmost possibility of extension is a blemish in the Hand of an Orator That habit which the peace-makers of old were painted carved in wherein the Head inclined to the Right Shoulder the Arme stretched out from the Eare the Hand extended out with the Thumb manifestly apparent which most pleaseth them who brag that they speak with a high Hand is reckoned by Quintilian among the moales of Rhetoricke an action not far from the usuall pendent posture of Changelings and Idiots Prevar Sect. 7. TO bring the Fingers ends to the Breast the Hand hollow when we speake To our selves or in cohortation objurgation or commiseration is an action that will seldome become the Hand of an Oratour or to strike the Breast with the Hand which is Scenicall Praevar Sect. 8. TO apply the Middle-Finger to the Thumbe is the common way of gracing an exordium yet to direct it as it were towards the left shoulder and so make it a collaterall action is nought but worse to bring forth the Arme transverse and to pronounce with the elbow Praevar Sect. 9. TO set the Arms a gambo or aprank and to rest the turned in backe of the Hand upon the side is an action of pride and ostentation unbeseeming the Hand of an Oratour Praevar Sect. 10. THe trembling Hand is scenicall and belongs more to the theater then the forum Praevar Sect. 11. THere are certaine hidden percussions of speech as it were a kind of feet at which the gesture of most of the ancient Oratours did fall which though they were usuall yet Quintilian condemns them for most deceitfull motions noting it also for a fault in young Declamers that while they write they first tune their sentences to gestures and forecast for the cadence of the Hand whence this inconvenience ensues that gesture which in the last should be Right doth frequently end in the sinister point It were better that whereas there are certaine short members of speech at which if there be need we may take breath to dispose or lay downe our gesture at those pauses Praevar Sect. 12. TO clap the Hands in giving praise and allowance is a Naturall expression of applause encouragement and rejoycing heard in common assemblies of people and in publique Theaters which was at first according to the simplicitie of those times plaine and naturall for Ovid speaking of the primitive and ancient Playes of the Romans saith Plausus tunc arte carebat But afterwards they had an artificiall manner of clapping their Hands to a certaine measure or proportionable tune Of which the Poet Carippus Ingeminantque cavos dulci modulamine plausus For the applause was done with the hollow of both Hands which being smitten together caused that sound which is called Popismus a word altogether feigned to the similitude of the sound The posture of this artificiall plaudite of the Hands and the sound also raised from their collision Philostratus most elegantly describes in the image of Comus the god of Ebrietie in these words Plausum etiam quendam imitatur pictura cujus maximè indiget Comus Nam Dextra contractis digitis subjectam sinistram ad cavum plectit ut Manus cymbalorum more percussae consonae siant The very figure of which gesture is to bee seen in the French translation of that Author How ambitious was Nero of this popular approbation when he entred upon the Theater to contend for the prize of Harpers and kneeling shew'd a reverence to the Assembly with his Hand and the Citie-people accustomed also to approve the gesture of the Player answered him with a certaine measure and artificiall applause Thou wouldst have thought saith Tacitus they had rejoyced and perhaps for the injurie of the publique discredit But those which from townes farre off and from remote provinces unacquainted with dissolute behaviour came either as Embassadours or for private busines could neither endure that sight nor applaud any way so dishonorable a labour but weary of their unskilfull clapping of Hands and troubling the skilfull were often beaten by the Souldiers placed in thick array lest any moment of time should be lost by an untuned and disproportionable crie or slothfull silence The like applause he expected and had from the Hands of his friends at home for Xiphilinus reports that Seneca and Burrhus though lame of his Hand when ever Nero spake they applauded him with their Hands and Vestments The ancient Sophisters were so greedy of this manner of applause in their Schooles and Auditories that they purchased it having for that purpose a Chorus of domesticall Parasites who were ready in the assemblies at every Gesture to give them this signe of approbation This Applause which Nazianzen calls Canoram Manuum actionem and S. Hierom Theatrale miraculum and condemned by Chrysostome among the trifling and unprofitable gesticulations of the Hand and Theatricall gestures crept into the Christian Churches and was given to the Divine Oratours of the Primitive times untill such time as it was exploded out of the Temples by their grave and sharpe reprehensions But although the ancient Oratours received this token of approbation from the hands of their auditors yet they never exhibited upon any occasion such Manuall plausibilitie to the people it being a Gesture too plebeian Theatrically light for the Hands of any prudent Rhetorician who can never decently advance his intentions by the naturall or artificiall plaudite of his Hands Prevar Sect. 13. TO discourse customarily with the Hands turn'd up of old said supinis Manibus disserere is an effeminate and ill habit in the Hand of an Oratour Dio Prusaeus among the Symbolls of Intemperance reprehends this habituall demeanour of the Hand for when hee would reckon up those things which signifie a corrupt and naughty custome which he calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he sets downe among the rest Supinis Manibus disserere Now they are properly called Manus s●pinae that are so advanc'd that the Palmes respect the heavens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the