Treasures from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

Books and manuscripts in the exhibition with descriptions.

Bibles and related texts

1. [Biblia] Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1462

2. [Biblia Neerlandica] Old Testament. Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer and Maurice Yemantszoon, 1477

3. [Biblia] Epistolae Pauli. Paris, Henri [I] Estienne, 1512

4. Guillelmus Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum. Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1459

5. Rudimentum novitiorum. Lьbeck, Lucas Brandis, 1475

6. Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum. Manuscript, Germany, ca. 1474

7. Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum. Cologne, Arnold Ther Hoernen, 1474

8. Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum. Louvain, Johann Veldener, 1476

9. Mellon, Le lustre des temps. Manuscript, Rouen, 1534

10. Hugo de Sancto Victore, Dialoges super Genesim [and] In Salomonis Ecclesiasten homilia. Manuscript, France, ca.1160

11a. Canticum canticorum Salomonis quod Hebraice dicitur Sir Hasirim. [Weimar], Cranach Presse, 1931

11b. Cantique des cantiques de Salomon. [Weimar], Cranach Presse, 1931

12. Stephen Charnock. Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God. London, for Dorman Newman et al., 1682

Meditation and mysticism

13. Biblia pauperum. Blockbook, [The Netherlands, ca.1460-1470]

14. Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnuss. Manuscript, Regensburg, ca.1450

15. Spiegel menschlicher Behaltnuss. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1476

16. Bonaventura, Meditationes vitae Christi. Augsburg, Gьnther Zainer, 1468

17. Bonaventura, [Meditationes] Van den hoechsten ende den aldercostelijcsten schat ons heren Jesu Christi der doecht der lijdsamheit. Manuscript, Flanders, ca.1500

18. Heinrich Suso, Das Buch genannt Seuse. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1482

19. Johann Tauler, Sermonen und Historia. Leipzig, Conrad Kachelofen, 1498

20. Johann Tauler, Van eenen volcomen Evangelisschen leven Christelijcke Predicatien. ‘Frankfurt, Peter van Dueren’ [= Emden, Willem Gailliart], 1565

21. Auslegung des Lebens Jesu Christi. Ulm, [Johann Zainer], ca.1482

22. Petrus von Rosenheim, Hexastichon. Pforzheim, Thomas Anshelm, 1502

23. Johannes Mauburnus, Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum. Basel, Jakob Wolff, ‘1404’ [=1504]

24a. Johann von Paltz, Die himmlische Fundgrube. Manuscript, Germany (Rhineland or Franconia), 1508

24b. Johann von Paltz, Celifodina. Leipzig, Martin Landsberg, 1504

25. Book of Hours [‘Adair Hours’]. Manuscript, Delft, ca.1490

26. Prayer Book [Masters of the Half Figures]. Manuscript, Delft, ca.1480

27. Book of Hours. Manuscript, Delft, ca.1475

28. Book of Hours [Master of the Haarlem Bible]. Manuscript, Haarlem, after 1470

29. Book of Hours [Bezborodko Master]. Manuscript, Utrecht, 1491

30. Thomas a Kempis, Imitatio Christi. Manuscript, Augsburg, 1463-1470

31. Thomas a Kempis, Imitatio Christi [fifth of nine tracts]. Augsburg, Gьnther Zainer, not after 1472

32. Thomas a Kempis, [Imitatio Christi] De vier boeken der naarvolging Christi. Amsterdam, Jacob Lescailje, 1663

33. Thomas a Kempis, Imitatio Christi. Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1679

34. Thomas a Kempis, Libri quatuor de imitatione Christi. Paris, Pierre-Franзois Didot, 1788

35. William Blake, Illustrations of the Book of Job. London, John Linnell, 1826

36. Isabella vom Heiligen Geist, Recreationen. Manuscript, Bavaria, ca.1700

37. Lieder der deutschen Mystik. Mьnchen, Bremer Presse, 1922

38. David Joris, Twonderboeck. Vianen, [Dirk Mullem], 1584

39. Rhabanus Maurus, De laudibus Sancte Crucis. Pforzheim, Thomas Anshelm, 1503

40a. Jacob Böhme. Mysterium magnum. Manuscript, Germany, ca.1630

40b. Jacob Böhme. Mysterium magnum. Manuscript, Germany, ca.1630

41. Jacob Böhme, Mysterium magnum. [Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1640.

Plato and Neoplatonists

42. Plato, Opera. Florence, Lorenzo de Alopa, 1484-5

43. Plotinus. Operum philosophoricum omnium liber LIV. Basel, Petrus Perna, 1580

44. Macrobius, Somnium Scipionis [and] Saturnalia. Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1472

45. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, De coelestis hierarchiae [and other works]. Manuscript, Italy, ca.1450

46. Jamblichus, De mysteriis Aegyptiorum [and 11 other texts by various authors]. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1497

47. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, Opera. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1585 [and] Jamblichus, De mysteriis. Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1577

48. Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. Westminster, William Caxton, ca.1478

49. Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. Manuscript, Bruges, ca.1485

50. Boethius, Opera. Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1564

51. Nicolaus Cusanus, Haec accurata recognitio trium voluminum, operum. Paris, Jodocus Badius, 1514

52. Mattheus Bossus, De veris ac salutaribus animi gaudiis dialogus. Florence, Francesco Bonaccorsi, 1491

53. Geoffroy Tory, Champ fleury. Paris, for the author and Gilles de Gourmont, 1529

54. Geoffroy Tory, L’art & science de la vraye proportion des lettres attiques. Paris, for Vivant Gaultherot, 1549

Hermetica and testimonia

55a. Apuleius, Opera. Rome, Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1469

55b. Apuleius, Opera. Vicenza, Hectoris de Sancto Ursio, 1488. Apuleius, Opera. Vicenza, Hectoris de Sancto Ursio, 1488.

56. Augustine, De civitate Dei. Venice, Joannes and Vindelinus de Spira, 1470

57. Lactantius, Opera. Subiaco, [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 1465

58. Lactantius, Opera. Rome, [Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 1468

59. Hermes Trismegistus, [Corpus Hermeticum] De potestate et sapientia Dei. Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa, 1471

60. Hermes Trismegistus, [Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius] Pimander. Paris, Henri Estienne, 1505

61. Hermes Trismegistus, [Corpus Hermeticum]. De la puissance et sapience de Dieu. Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1549

62. Symphorien Champier, Liber de quadruplici vita. Lyon, Jacques Huguetan for Stephan Guenard, 1507

63. Giordano Bruno, De l'infinito universo et mondi. ‘Venice’ [= London, John Charlewood], 1584

64. Giordano Bruno, De umbris idearum. Paris, Gilles Gorbin, 1582

65. Giordano Bruno, De gl’heroici furori. ‘Paris, Antonio Baio’ [= London, John Charlewood], 1585

66. Giordano Bruno, La cena di ceneri. [London], John Charlewood, 1584

67. Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Nuremberg, Johannes Petreius, 1543

68. Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minores metaphysica, physica atque technica historia. Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1617

Classical and Oriental wisdom

69. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica [Greek]. Florence, [Lorenzo de Alopa], 1496

70. Virgil, Die Eclogen. Weimar, Cranach Presse, 1926

71. Zoroaster, Les divins oracles. Paris, Philippe Danfrie and Richard Breton, 1558

72. Achille Bocchi. Symbolicarum quaestionum. Bologna, Academia Bocchiana, 1555

73. [Dicta philosophorum] Les ditz de philosophes. Manuscript, Angers or Bourges, ca.1455

74. [Dicta philosophorum] The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres. Westminster, William Caxton, 1477

Assimilation in literary genres

75. Cest le romant de la rose moralisie cler et net. Paris, Antoine Vérard, ca. 1500

76. Guillaume Deguileville, Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and Le Pèlerinage de l’ame. Manuscript, Paris, ca.1440

77. Robert de Boron, L’Estoire du Graal [and] Merlin [and] Walter Map, Lancelot. Manuscript, French Flanders, ca.1280

78. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parsifal [and] Albrecht, Der jüngere Titurel. [Strassburg, Johann Mentelin], 1477

79. Le second volume de Lancelot du Lac. Paris, Antoine Vérard, 1494

80. Sydrach. [La fontaine de toutes sciences]. Manuscript, Paris?, ca.1350-70

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

82. Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, ou discours du songe de Poliphile. Paris, Jean le Blanc for Jacques Kerver, 1561

83. Francesco Colonna, [Hypnerotomachia Poliphili] Le tableau des riches inventions. Paris, Matthieu Guillemont, 1600

84. Jan van der Noot, Cort begryp der XII boeken Olympiados. Antwerp, Gilles van den Rade, 1579

85. Dante, Divina commedia. Foligno, Johann Neumeister and Evangelista Angelini, 1472

86. Dante, Divina commedia. Florence, Nicolaus Laurentii, 1481

87. Dante, [Divina commedia] Terze rime. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1502

88. Dante, Divina commedia. Venice, Giovanni Battista, Melchior and Domenico Sessa, 1564

89. Dante, The divine comedy. New York, Bruce Rogers, 1955

Cabbala

90. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Opera. Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 1496

91. Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, Portae lucis. Augsburg, Johann Miller, 1516

92. Guillaume Postel, Abrahami patriarchae liber Jezirah. Paris, ‘in schola Italorum’ for the author, 1552

93. Sefer Raziel ha-Gadol. Amsterdam, Mozes ben Abraham Mendes Coutinho, [1701]

94. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, Kabbala denudata. Sulzbach, Abraham Lichtenthaler for Johann David Zunner, 1677. (Part II:) Frankfurt, Balthasar Christoph Wust, 1684

95. Boethius, Arithmetica. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1521

96. Johann Hartlieb, Die Kunst Chiromantie. [Blockbook]. Augsburg, Jörg Schapf, [ca.1480]

97. Raimundus Lullius, Liber de venatione [and] De anima rationali [and] Liber de natura. Manuscript, Italy, early 15th century

98. Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphie et universelle escriture. Paris, Benoоt Prevost for Jacques Kerver, 1561

99. Athanasius Kircher, Ars magna sciendi. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1669

Alchemy

100. [Greek: Orpheus, Argonautica]. Florence, [Benedictus Ricardinus] for Filippo Giunta the elder, 1500

101. 101. Petrus Bonus. Pretiosa margarita novella de thesauro. Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1546

102. [Donum Dei]. Ortus diviciarum sapiencie Dei. Manuscript, Germany, ca.1550

103. Paracelsus, Archidoxorum Aureoli Ph. Theophrasti Paracelsi. Basel, Petrus Perna, 1570

104. De alchimia opuscula [and] Rosarium philosophorum. Frankfurt, Cyriacus Jacob, 1550

105. Paracelsus, Pranostijka. Manuscript, Bohemia, 16th century

106. Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens. Oppenheim, Hieronymus Galler for Johann Theodor de Bry, 1618

107. Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae. Magdeburg, Levinus Braun, 1608

108. Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. Frankfurt, Hermann van Sande, 1677

109. Elias Ashmole, Theatrum chemicum Britannicum. London, John Grismond for Nathaniel Brookes, 1652

110. [Isaac Baulot], Mutus liber. La Rochelle, Pierre Savouret, 1677

111. Barend Coenders van Helpen, Escalier des Sages ou la philosophie des anciens. Groningen, Charles Pieman, 1689

112. Eugenio Bonacina, Compendiolum de praeparatione auri potabilis. Manuscript, Italy?, ca.1700

113. Georg von Welling, Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum. Homburg, Johann Philipp Helwig, 1735

114. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. London, Doves Press, 1906, 1910

Rosicrucians

115. [Johann Valentin Andreae], Allgemeine und General Reformation der gantzen weiten Welt. Beneben der Fama Fraternitatis. Kassel, Wilhelm Wessel, 1614

116. [Johann Valentin Andreae], Fama Fraternitatis ....beneben der Confession Oder Bekanntnuß derselben Fraternitet. Frankfurt, Johann Bringer for Johann Berner, 1615

117. Johann Valentin Andreae, Chymische Hochzeit. Strassburg, heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1616

118. Johann Valentin Andreae, Hermetick romance. London, Andrew Sowle, 1690

119. [Daniel Mögling], Speculum sophicum Rhodostauroticum. [Frankfurt], s.n., 1618

120. Examen sur l’inconnue et nouvelle caballe des Frères de la Croix Rosée. [Rouen, David Ferrand] for: Paris, Pierre de la Fosse, 1623

121. Gabriel Naudé, Instruction a la France sur la verité de l’histoire des Frères de la Roze-Croix. Paris, Julliot, 1623

122. [Geheime Figuren] Die Lehren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert and Geheime Figuren. Altona, Johann David Adam Eckhart, 1785-1788.

123. [Geheime Figuren] Physica, Metaphysica et Hyperphysica. Manuscript, Germany, ca.1785