Arbatel : von der Magia der altern Väter die höchte Künst vnnd [und] Werckh der Weissheit. Im allen dingen fragenden ...
| Uniform Title: | Arbatel de magia seu pneumatica veterum. |
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | German |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the original Latin. Apparently the earliest surviving translation (from vendor's description). In a single cursive hand (Kurrentschrift) in brown ink, marginal annotations in a second contemporary hand. On the interleaves an 18th-century reader provided the full text of some biblical passages cited in the book. The 18th-century annotator made notes on astrology and future predictions on the front pastedown and on a laid-in paper slip. In forty-nine aphorisms, this anonymous grimoire reveals the key to human communication with the spirits governing the universe. “The secrets…range from the highest achievements of reputed mystical science to the bourgeois ambitions of daily life” (Waite) — from controlling the forces of nature to making money.--(From vendor's description). Sometimes attributed to Jacques Gohory. The second title is an unstudied treatise on name magic and number symbolism steeped in Kabbalah, gematria, astrology and the Bible. In the first part, tables transpose letters and numbers into five fully expressed and explained occul alphabets, linking colors, planets, crystals, zodiac signs and celestial beings. Calculations of solar and lunar signs begin with the year 1596, dating the compilation. The second part centers on the true meaning of names — biblical, place, baptismal, marriage, etc. — and their connection to numerology and astrology.--(From vendor's description). |
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| Physical Description: | [11, 28 pages, interleaves] [4 unnumbered leaves], 163 leaves, interleaves ; diagrams ; 20 cm |