Légende

Isaac Casaubon's copy of the Hermetic texts, 1554. 'Mercurii trismegisti poemander, suede potestate ac sapiential divina Aesculapii definitiones ad Ammonem regem Typis Regiis, Parisiis, M.D.LIIII. Apud A dr. Turnebum typographum Regium'. The title page from the copy of the Hermetic texts owned and annotated by the seventeenth-century scholar Isaac Casaubon. His researches demonstrated that these texts were not the product of ancient Egypt, but of the second century AD. These texts preserve a form of Hellenistic gnosticism, and events in this world are considered to be ruled by the stars and planets. One of the texts describes Egyptian rituals for drawing down cosmic power to animate the statues of their gods.

Date

1554

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_059

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

49,9Mo (4,4Mo) / 28,7cm x 43,6cm / 3390 x 5145 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Latin library discovery arts country science book knowledge color design astrology Greek Greece text location century note handwriting literature concept British Library discovering lettering MONOCHROME title page Colour graphic design 16th century sixteenth century Hermetic texts Unknown Isaac Isaac Casaubon Casaubon Heritage Art Hermes Trismegistus Trismegistus Hermes Mercurius Mercurius Trismegistus Trismegistus Mercurius Thoth Hermes Hermes Mercurius