The Earliest Chiromancy in the West

Charles Burnett's article is a peer-reviewed piece in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and its documented, checkable contribution is tracing the twelfth-century Latin reappearance of chiromancy, including its specific appearance in the Eadwine Psalter, and its transmission from Arabic sources into the Latin West. That direct manuscript and transmission-history method, checkable against the specific text and sources it names, is the article's real evidentiary basis and the reason it functions as the standard scholarly anchor for the medieval layer of palmistry. Use it for the documented medieval reappearance and Arabic transmission of chiromancy in the Latin West; a claim about the later early modern palmistry tradition needs a source addressing that later period directly.