The Hermetic Gnosis Exhibition

F. van Lamoen. The Hermetic Gnosis Catalogue of an exhibition in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. 1990. (English version revised in 1998)

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Introduction - J.R. Ritman (Founder, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica)

Preface - F.A. Janssen (Director Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica)

To the source - F. van Lamoen



Books and manuscripts in the exhibition with descriptions.

1. Biblia dat is, de gantsche heylighe Schrift. (Dordrecht, Jacob Canin), 1571

2. Greek manuscript of the New Testament. Cappadocia, 10th century

3. Plato. Opera (translated by Marsilio Ficino). Venice, Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere, 1491

4. Plato. Chalcidii luculenta Timaei traductio, et eiusdem argutissima explanatio. [Paris], Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1520

5. Plato (Opera). (Translated by) Marsilio Ficino. Florence, Laurentius Venetus (=Lorenzo d'Alopa), 1484-85

6. Orpheus. Opera. (Translated by Renatus Perdrierius.) Basle, Johann Oporinus, 1555

7. Hierocles. Hupomèna eis ta toon Puthagoreioon epè ta chrusa Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Joan. Curterio interprete. Parisiis, Étienne Prévosteau, 1583

8. Iamblichus. De vita Pythagorae. Franeker, Gillis van den Rade (for) Bibliopolium Commelinianum, 1598

9. Democritus (pseudo-). De arte magna. (Translated by Dominico Pizimentio). Padua, Simone Galignani, 1573

10. Exerpta ex Theodoto. In: Clemens Alexandrinus. Euriskomena. Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, 1550

11. Philo Judaeus. Les oeuvres. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1575

12. Plotinus. Opera. (Translated by Marsilio Ficino) Florence, Antonius Miscominus, 1492

13. Origen. Contra Celsum et in fidei christianae defensionem libri. Rome, Georgius Herolt, 1481

14. Michael Maier. Atalanta fugiens. Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler (for) Johann Theodor de Bry, 1618

15. Iamblichus. Peri mustèrioon logos. De mysteriis liber. Porphyrius. Epistola ad Anebonem Aegyptium. (Edited by Thomas Gale). Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1678

16. Horapollo. De sacris notis et sculpturis.(Edited by Jo. Mercerus). Paris, G. Morel (for) Jacques Kerver, 1551

17. Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499

18. Hermes Trismegistus. Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei. (Translated by Marsilio Ficino). Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa, 1471

19. Hermes Trismegistus. Sestien boecken. t'Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn for Ysbrant Ryvertsz, 1643

20. Lucius Apuleius. Opera. Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio, 1488

21. Aurelius Augustinus. De civitate dei. Venice, Joannes de Spira, 1470

22. Lactantius. De divinis institutionibus. . Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1478

23. Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius. In somnium Scipionis. Libri Saturnaliorum. Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornum, 1521

24. Dionysius the Areopagite. Caelestis hierarchia. Ecclesiastica hierarchia. Divina nomina. Mystica theologia. Undecim epistolae. Ignatii undecim epistolae. Polycarpi epistola una. Venice, Joannes Tacuinus, 1502

25. Auriferae artis, quam chemiam vocant. Basle, Petrus Perna, 1572

26. Johannes Tauler. Sermon, Leipzig, Conrad Kacheloven, 1498

27. Heinrich Seuse. Die ewige Weisheit, Manuscript, (Nuremberg ?), 1435

28. Heinrich Seuse. Hier seind geschriben die capital des buchs dz do der Seusse heisset. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1482

29. Nicolaus de Cusa. Opera. Paris, Jodocus Badius, 1514

30. Nicolaus de Cusa. Opera. Basle, Henricpetri, 1565

31. Marsilio Ficino. De triplici vita. Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 1501

32. Marsilio Ficino. Liber de sole et lumine. Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 1493

33. Leone Ebreo (Juda Abarbanel). Dialogi di amore. Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1541

34. Ludovico Lazarelli. Crater Hermetis. In: Hermes Trismegistus. Pimander. Asclepius. Paris, Henri Étienne

35. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Omnia opera. Venice, Bernardinus Venetus, 1498

36. (Raimundus Lullius). l'Art merveilleux de Lulle. (Manuscript, 1696)

37. Johann Reuchlin. De arte cabalistica. Hagenau, Thomas Anselmus, 1517

38. Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Some premeditate and considerate thoughts upon...Genesis. London, printed for Samuel Clark, [1698]

39. Cornelius Henricus Agrippa. De occulta philosophia. (Cologne, Johann Soter), 1533

40. Theophrastus Paracelsus. Compendium. (Edited by Leo Suavius) (= Jacques Gohory). Basle, Petrus Perna, 1568

41. Theophrastus Paracelsus. Archidoxorum. Basle, Petrus Perna, 1570

42. Sebastian Franck. Die gulden arcke. (Emden, Willem Gaillart?), 1560

43. John Dee, Monas hieroglyphica. Antwerp, Willem Sylvius, 1564

44. Robert Fludd. Philosophia Moysaica. Gouda, Pieter Rammazein, 1638

45. Giordano Bruno. De umbris idearum. Paris, Gilles Gourbin, 1582

46. Giordano Bruno. De 1'infinito universo et mondi. Venetia, s.n. ( = London, John Charlewood), 1584

47. Achille Bocchi. Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere. Bologna, Soc. typogr. Bononiensis, 1574

48. Michael Maier. Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum. Frankfurt, Anton Humm (for) Lucas Jennis, 1617

49. Jacob Boehme. Het Mysterium Magnum, ofte een verklaaring over het eerste boek Mosis. Amsterdam, Jacob Claus and Willem Lamsvelt, 1700

50. Johann Arndt. Vom wahren Christenthum. Leipizg, heirs of Johann Samuel Heinsius, 1753

51. Gottfried Arnold Das Geheimnisz der göttlichen Sophia. Leipzig, Thomas Fritsch, 1700