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Provenance: Early annotations in French, mostly in pencil but a longer
annotation in ink on p. 93 on a pasted in strip of paper.
First edition. An Italian translation was published in 1753. Sommervogel
V, col. 1784, no. 1; Riccardi I, i, col. 175, no. 29.
Two didactic poems, the Wrst on the rainbow, the second on the aurora
borealis, each followed by a long scientiWc commentary by Bošcović (pp. 19–
48 and 89–127). Bošcović’s own work, De aurora boreali had been published
at Rome in 1738.
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PARACELSuS (1493–1541)
Philosophia mystica: Darinn begriVen EilV unterschidene
Theologico­Philosophische, doch teutsche Tractätlein, zum theil auß
Theophrasti Paracelsi, zum theil auch M. Valentini Weigelii,... bißhero
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Frankfurt: Gedtruckt zur Newstadt und zu Wnden bey Lucas Jenes [sic,
corrected in MS to Jennis], Buchhändler, 1618.
4to: A–2L4 , 136 leaves, pp. 272. Woodcut illustration on p. 228,
typographic chart on p. 240. Woodcut head and tailpieces.
194 x 151mm. Moderate browning and staining.
Binding: Nineteenth­century marbled boards, spine frayed, no free
endleaves.
Provenance: About 45 words of annotation in an early, perhaps
contemporary hand, and a few words of later annotation; underlining
and NBs in the margins. Ownership inscription on front pastedown
dated 1788 of Carl Adolf Boheman (1764–1831), Swedish mystic;
and signature of Achatius Kahl (1794–1888) of Lund, theologian and
translator of Swedenborg; bookseller’s stamp on rear pastedown of C.
Nilson, Quidling Antiqvariat, Lund. A bookplate has been removed
from pastedown. Walter Pagel’s pencil signature on pastedown.
First edition, VD17’s variant A (see below). SudhoV 306; Ferguson,
Paracelsus, pp. 37–38; VD17 3:604297L, variant A.
An important collection of theological works by Paracelsus and two of the
Wgures most closely associated with the development of Paracelsianism in the
early seventeenth century, Adam Haselmayr and Valentin Weigel (1533–1588).
‘What Paracelsus was aiming at with his theological writings was not to
establish a new sect, but on the contrary to try and deny all religious parties
combating [with] each other [for] the very reason to exist, since he strove for
a church of the spirit, subject only to God and nature.’ (Gilly.)
The book is divided into two parts, 4 tracts attributed to Paracelsus and one
other in part 1; 5 attributed to Weigel and one other in part 2. These are listed in
the prelims as follows: part 1, Paracelsus, ‘De poenitentii’; ‘Astronomia Olympi
novi’; ‘Theologia Cabalistica de perfecto homine in Christo Iesu, & contra’;
and ‘Commentarius in Danielem Prophetam’; followed by ‘Das Leben und