Signatura rerum, or, The signature of all things : shewing the sign, and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation : and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is : it proceeds out of eternity into time, and again out of time into eternity, and comprizeth all mysteries / written in High Dutch, MDCXXII, by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Phylosophus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.

Contributor:

Ellistone, John, -1652.

Macock, John, printer.

Calvert, Giles, -1664, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De signatura rerum. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Early works to 1800.

Mysticism.

Theosophy--Early works to 1800.

Theosophy.

Penn Provenance:

Harrison, J. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Thompson, Robert Ellis, 1844-1924 (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 224 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Signatura rerum

Signature of all things

Fingerprint:

isnd n.e) aly, ansi (3) 1651 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by John Macock, for Gyles Calvert ..., 1651.

Notes:

Translator's preface signed: J. Ellistone.

Signatures: A-2F⁴.

Woodcut illustration.

Initials.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has autograph ("J. Harrison") of J. Harrison and stamp ("ROBERT ELLIS THOMPSON") of Robert Ellis Thompson on blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has two printed paper slips, one in German and one in Dutch, with booksellers' printed descriptions of other works by Böhme on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy has a few early ms. underlines and marginal notes in brown ink in text; partially illegible ms. inscription ("[...]ers that did not com to demand their moneys in their h [...]oney reserued as ord") at head of blank leaf preceding title leaf; a few early ms. notes on verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf; pen test in red ink at foot of title leaf.

Penn Libraries Culture Class Collection copy: blank leaves at beginning and end of volume each reinforced at outer margins.

Cited in:

ESTC R19165

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B3419

Buddecke, W. Jakob Böhme-Ausgaben, 119

OCLC:

9339286