Steganographiae nec non Clauiculae Salomonis Germani, Ioannis Trithemii Abbatis Spanheimensis Ordinis S. Benedicti (quae hucusque à nemine intellectae, à multis fuerunt condemnatae, & necromantiae notâ inustae) genuina, facilis, dilucidaque declaratio: ex quâ constabit liquidò omnia ea quae author in iis libris promittit, effectum habere infallibilia securissimum, huncque nullo modo à pactu aliquo, aut superstitione dependentem, sed à principiis, & naturalibus causis necessaria sequela dimanantem. A Ioanne Caramuel L. sacrae theologiae professore cist in Trithemii apólysin summo studio, summo dispendio temporis concinnabatur. Opus sanè hucusque ab inpioribus creditum inpossiblie, à sanctioribus, qui mores, vitam, scriptaque Trithemij venerantur, peroptatum, cabalaeae doctrinae theoricis ditissimum secretis; nec non doctoribus theologis, expositoribus, Hebr[a]eosophis, Latinis, humanae curiositatis studiosis: regibus, principibus, omnibusque qui litterarum, vel fortunae eminentias obcupant perennè necessarium.
Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516)
Category
Books
Date
1635
Materials
Place of origin
Cologne
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188063
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 158, [2] p. : 1 ill. ; 4to. Running number: 4254. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "α½" [i.e. alpha½ = Greek number 1½]. Manuscript inscription on title page: "G Kingsley". Manuscript price on verso of title page: "tt1-5" [i.e. 1-5 livres tournois]. Binding: seventeenth-century sheepskin; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet. Recessed cords. Blind fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516) Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606 - 1682)