Volume 1
Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1962-1973
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![9. AGRIPPA (Henricus Cornelius) [1486-1535]. De occulta philo sophia libri tres. 6 11. + CCCLXIII pp. folio. 31^ x 20 cm. [Middle 17th cent.] Original half vellum binding. Illustrated with 7 wash drawings of the ‘Astrological Man’, etc. and by numerous figures of sigils, etc. Text within red rules. A copy of the rare first edition, published by Johann Soter in Cologne. A note on a fly-leaf by Johann Ferdinand Riicker, Pfarrer of Thannhausen, states that he bought it at a book-sale at Nüremberg on 17 November, 1789. Armorial book-plate [unidentified]. Purchased 1930. (56404) 10. AGRIPPA (Henricus Cornelius) [1486-1535] [& others]. Libri tres de occulta philosophia, et omnia aha opuscula ejusdem Auctoris et aliorum. Additur Eptameron magicum Petri Apponi [sic]. Fideliter transcripta. 220 11. (last bl.). folio. 27-]' x 19^ cm. [Middle 17th cent.] Modem paper covers. Some margins frayed, and slightly cropped throughout. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn sigils, diagrams, etc. Besides the main work by Agrippa, the MS. contains also his ‘In geomanticam disciplinam lectura’, after which is the pseudonymous fourth book of the ‘Occult Philosophy’, ‘De ceremoniis magicis’. The works of Agrippa are followed by: Petrus de Abano. Heptameron, seu elementa magica. Pictorius Villinganus (Georgius). De speciebus magiae ceremonialis quam goetiam vocant epitome. Plinius Secundus (Caius). Libri XXX, Capitulum I et II. Naturalis His toriae : De arte magica. [Anon.] De fascinationibus disputatio. Gerardus Cremonensis. Geomantiae astronomicae libellus. Arbatel de magia seu pneumatica Veterum. These works are all printed in the collected edition of Agrippa’s works, published at Lyons ‘apud Beringos fratres’ and undated, but probably c. 1565. This MS. is a transcript of most of the first volume of that edition. Published 1930. (55359). ALANUS. Rotatio elementorum. See Miscellanea Alchemica XXVI, 19 [note], (526) ALBERTI (Bernardus) [fl. c. 1350]. In primam Fen quarti Canonis. See Miscellanea Medica X, 2. (540); XXII, 15. (548) 11. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, Saint. [ -1280]. Anonymi commen tarius in librum Alberti De secretis mulierum. 56 11. (last bl.). folio. 28^ x 21 cm. 1374. Modern stamped calf binding. Written in a semi-current German hand, 39 lines to a page. A few initials, paragraph marks and headings in red. Fol. i (red) Albertus de secreta generatione /// [H]Omo generat hominem et sol. In qua quidem proportione / quantum ad generationes rerum naturalium . . . 55 . . . ut habetur / in isto versu Omnibus in factis peragendis siue peractis debet proponi deus humane rationi Amen / et sic est finis huius operis anno domini M°ccc°lxxiiii to . Library stamp of Karl Haiser on first leaf, and his Ex-libris inside the cover.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0021.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
