Sigil of Andrealphus
At a glance
- Entry
- 65 of 72
- Rank
- Marquis
- Legions
- 30 in the text
Description in the text
Andrealphus is credited with teaching geometry, measurement, and astronomy. The account also says he can change a person into the likeness of a bird.
Read entry 65 on page 43 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
A noisy peacock that later becomes human.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Geometry
- Astronomy
- Transformation
Reading this entry
Andrealphus first appears as a noisy peacock, then takes human shape. The marquis teaches geometry, measurement, and astronomy and is said to make people skillful in them. The office also includes changing a human into the likeness of a bird. The bird transformation resembles the initial visible form, but the passage does not explain whether that resemblance is meant symbolically.
Andrealphus rules 30 legions and has a seal. Measurement is the most precise teaching theme here, distinguishing the entry from more general claims to all liberal sciences. The source does not identify a mathematical theorem or astronomical model, so a historical profile should not invent one. The strong sound at the peacock’s arrival is an identifying feature, not evidence of a distinct musical office.
Read entry 65 on page 43 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 65
What the numbered text says
The peacock arrives with noise before Andrealphus takes a human form. Its educational scope is tightly specified: geometry, mensuration, and astronomy. The text then attributes a separate transformation of a human into the likeness of a bird. That last clause describes resemblance, without the subjective conviction found in Ose’s earlier entry. A bird portrait of Andrealphus should therefore be distinguished from the bird shape it is said to give to someone else. The catalogue supplies no species for that transformed person.
About the printed seal
Number 65 is on frontispiece 4. The seal is not identified as a diagram of a peacock or a geometrical figure, even though both would be tempting readings given the prose. Its secure role is as the printed sign matched to this numbered entry.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 60: Vapula. Vapula’s lion-and-griffin form accompanies handcrafts, professions, philosophy, and sciences. Andrealphus specifies measurement and astronomy and adds a bird likeness. Their practical learning offices overlap only at a broad level.