Manuscript containing astrological charts of a wide variety of individuals, each entered onto a standard diagrammatic form. The individuals concerned date from the sixteenth century to the 1850s, and include royals and those associated with violent deaths. Many are noted as providing examples of the truth of astrology. A small number of the horoscopes concern students of astrology born in the first years of the nineteenth century, one of whom may have been the author of this work.
Annotated inside the front cover 'Royal Book of Fate by Raphael to be had J. Knight, 51 Paternoster Row', giving a circumstantial date after 1829.