The divine pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus : in XVII books / translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English, by that learned divine Doctor Everard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermes, Trismegistus

Everard, John, 1575?-1650?, translator.

J. F.

White, Robert, active 1639-1677, printer.

Moule, Gregory, bookseller.

Brewster, Thomas, bookseller.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Corpus Hermeticum. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Hermetism--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

Hermetism.

Occultism.

Penn Provenance:

Pagel, Walter, 1898-1983 (autograph) (Smith copy)

Pagel, B. E. J. (Bernard Ephraim Julius) (former owner) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 215 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

asto i-nd amw? whdo (3) 1650 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Robert White, for Tho. Brewster, and Greg Moule ..., 1650 [that is, 1649]

Language Note:

The first edition of the English translation of the 17 books which comprise the Corpus Hermetica by Hermes Trismegistus.

Contents:

To the reader

[Contents] The titles of every book of Hermes Trismegistus

1. His first book

2. Poemander

3. The holy sermon

4. The key

5. That God is not manifest, and yet most manifest

6. That in God alone is good

7. The secret sermon in the Mount, of regeneration, and the profession of silence

8. That the greatest evil in Man, is the not knowing of God

9. A universal sermon to Asclepius

10. The mind to Hermes

11. Of the common miracle to Tat

12. Hermes Trismegistus, his "Crater, or Monas"

13. Of sense and understanding

14. Of operation and sense

15. Of truth to his son Tat

16. That none of the things that are, can perish

17. To Asclepius, to be truly wise.

Notes:

"Thomason received his copy in September 1649. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Sept. 25 1649"; last two digits of imprint year crossed through."--ESTC.

Signatures: A-O⁸ P⁴.

"To the reader" signed: J.F.

Title within border of text ornaments and single rules; type ornament head-pieces.

Woodcut initials and factotums.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy has a few ms. bookseller's notes (Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.) in pencil on front free endpaper and back pastedown; a few 19th-century(?) ms. marks and annotations in pencil in text.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Roger Gaskell Rare Books in 2015.

Smith copy has autograph of Walter Pagel on front pastedown; formerly owned by B.E.J. Pagel (1930-2007).

Smith copy has 3 paper slips, each with bookseller's printed description of a copy of this work (1 annotated in red pencil and black ink), laid in.

Smith copy bound in full 19th-century sprinkled sheep; gold-ruled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("HERMES' DIVINE PYMANDER"); imprint date ("1650") stamped in gold at foot of spine.

Smith copy: leaves closely cropped at head margin with occasional damage to running title.

Cited in:

ESTC R202412

Wing (2nd ed.), H1565

Thomason Coll. E.1344[2]

Ferguson, J. Bibliotheca chemica, I, p. 389

Yale. Alchemy, 96

OCLC:

39895047