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Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi

by Paracelsus

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: Primary source

"Ad illvstrissimvm ac potentissimum principem Ferdinandum Roman. regem semper augustum atque archiducem Austriae conscripta. Anno 1536." First published in German (Prognostication auff xxiiii. Jar zükünfftig. Augsburg : Heinrich Steiner, 1536. Sudhoff 17), and in Latin translation by Marcus Tatius Alpinus (Prognosticatio ad vigesimvm qvartum annum duratura. Same imprint. Sudhoff 18). The ill. were woodcuts, rather than etchings as here. Sudhoff suggests that the present ed. may be French, 1560-1580 Signatures: ã A-I ã1a title; ã1b Marcvs Titivs [i.e. Tativs] ad lectorem; ã2a-ã4b Praefatio; A1a-H4a (printed on rectos only) Figvra I-Figvra XXXII, each consisting of an allegorical ill. followed by prophetic prose; I1a-I3b Expositio brevis Prognosticationis eximii doctoris Theophasti Paracelsi ...; I4 blank Hogart, R. Alchemy Sudhoff, K. Bibliographia Paracelsica "Ad illustrissimum ac potentissimum principem Ferdinandum Roman. Regem semper Augustum atque Archiducem Austria conscripta. Anno 1536." Signatures: ã⁴ A-I⁴ First published in German (Prognostication auff xxiiii. Jar zükünfftig. Augsburg : Heinrich Steiner, 1536. Sudhoff 17), and in Latin translation by Marcus Tatius Alpinus (Prognosticatio ad vigesimvm qvartum annum duratura. Same imprint. Sudhoff 18). The ill. were woodcuts, rather than etchings as here. Sudhoff suggests that the present ed. may be French, 1560-1580 Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1928 Paracelsus coll. of the St. Louis Medical Society [8] p., 32 leaves of plates, [8] p. (last leaf blank) : 23 cm. (4to)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Occultism and esotericism, and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

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1500[S.l. : s.n.]; Sine nomineLatinPublic

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1536Sine nomineLatinNo ebook

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40 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : engr. illustrations, plates ; (4to)

[1560-1580?][publisher not identified]LatinCatalog record

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
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