‎SUPERVIELLE (Anne-Marie).‎
‎La quinta.‎

‎De secretis naturae sive Quinta essentia libri duo. His accesserunt Alberti Magni Summi philosophi, De mineralibus & rebus metallicis Libri quninque. Quae omnia solerti cura repurgata rerum naturae studiosis recens publicata sunt per M. Gualtherum H. ... - [THE CULMINATION OF LULLISM]‎

‎(Argentorati (Strassbourg) apud Balthassarum Beck), 1541. Small 8vo. Contemporary full calf binding with brass clasps. Professionally and neatly re-backed. Title-page a bit soiled and three very small holes to first leaf of text, otherwise internally very nice, clean and fresh. Early 20th century book-plate to front free end-paper (depicting Aristotle and Plato and with Greek writing). One full-page and 7 half-page woodcut illustrations in the text. (4), 183, (4 - Index) ff.‎

‎The very rare first edition edition thus, being the first edition edited by the celebrated Strasbourg physician Walter Hermann Ryff (reprinted in Venice in 1542). The book contains two works: Lull's ""De secretis naturae"" and Albert the Great's ""De mineralibus & rebus metallicus"", which is among the authentic writings of the author"" both works are of the utmost importance and greatly influenced Renaissance philosophy and science: Lull invented an ""art of finding truth"" (often in Lullism referred to as ""The Art""), which centuries later stimulated Leibnitz' dream of a universal algebra. Lull applied this to basically all subjects studied at the Medieval Universities. ""Lull's metaphysics worked a revolution in the history of philosophy"" (The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, p. 548). ""The production of pseudo-Lullian alchemical texts culminated at the end of the fourteenth century with an important work, the ""Liber de secretis naturæ sive de quinta essential"". At that time the formation of this corpus of texts entered a second stage. In the ""Liber de secretis naturæ"" the alchemical practice of the Testamentum becomes linked to the fifth essence of wine, a distillation technique popularized in by Jean de Roquetaillade in 1350. Moreover, its author said on several occasions that he relied on the Testamentum and other alchemical texts, thus recognizing Lull as an alchemist. If the ""Liber de secretis naturæ sive de quinta essential"" seems to be a medical book guided by the thought and the style of Lull, it is also notable for its author's interest in turning matter into gold, unlike John Roquetaillade who for religious reasons was not mainly interested in such transmutation. It begins with a prologue consisting of a conversation between Lull and a monk, then come the two books paraphrasing Roquetaillade's De quinta essentia. It ends with a Tertia distinctio devoted to an alchemical application of the Lullian method (alphabets and trees). Even if the ""Liber de secretis naturæ sive de quinta essential"" suffered, like a number of alchemical works, from a very unreliable textual tradition in both manuscript and printed form, it enjoyed great success in the sixteenth century.""His works on occult philosophy were essential to Renaissance magic. ""As the inventor of a method which was to have an immense influence throughout Europe for centuries, Lull is an extremely important figure. Lullism is a precursor of scientific method. Lullian astral medicine developed into Pseudo-Lullian alchemy. The great figures of Renaissance Neoplatonism include Lulliiam in their interests, and naturally so since Lullism was the precursor of their ways of thinking. And from the point of history of religion and of religious toleration, surely we admire Lull's vision in taking advantage of the unique concentration of Christian, Moslem, and Jewish traditions."" (Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age).The present work also contributed greatly to what later was to become known as Christian Kabbalah. Living in a region where the Catholic Church was dominant, where a large part of the land was still under heavy influence from Moslem Arabs, and where the Jews made important contributions to the culture, Lull sought to unify all three religions by developing a (natural) philosophy incorporating elements common to all. These rather unorthodox, and to some extent heretical, thoughts were later taken up by the Italian Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola (1463-94). He and many of his contemporaries believed to have discovered in Kabbalah a lost divine revelation that could give the key to understanding both the teachings of Pythagoras, Plato, and the Orphics, as well as the inner secrets of Catholic Christianity. Pico della Mirandola had a considerable amount of Kabbalistic literature translated into Latin by the convert Samuel ben Nissim Abulfaraj.Raymond Lull (ab. 1232 - 1315), Majorcan writer, philosopher, memorycian (he was later to become a great source of inspiration for Giordano Bruno), logician, and a Franciscan tertiary. He wrote the first major work of Catalan literature. Recently-surfaced manuscripts show him to have anticipated by several centuries prominent work on elections theory. He is sometimes considered a pioneer of computation theory, especially given his influence on Gottfried Leibniz. He is also well known also as a glossator of Roman Law. Lull taught himself Arabic with the help from a slave. As a result, he wrote his ""Ars Magna"", which was intended to show the necessary reasons for the Christian faith. To promote his theory and test its effectiveness, he went to Algiers and Tunis. At the age of 82, in 1314, Lull traveled again to North Africa, where an angry crowd of Muslims stoned him in the city of Bougie. Genoese merchants took him back to Mallorca, where he died at home in Palma the following year.Despite the fact that a large corpus of the printed works by Lull are erroneously ascribed to him:"" On the whole, we get the impression that the ""Testament"", ""De secretis naturae seu de quinta essential"", and ""Lapidarius"" are probably the oldest members of the Lullian alchemical collections"" (Thorndyke)The present Ryff-edition became very popular and later appeared numerous times. It was reprinted already the following year in Venice, 1542, and editions followed in Nürnberg, 1546, Basel, 1561, Köln, 1567, etc. etc.Freilich: 372Adams: L, 1703Honeyman: v, 2064AWellcome: 3897‎

‎Historiæ Societatis Jesu pars quinta sive Claudius. Tomus prior ( - posterior ) Auctore Francisco Sacchino Societatis eiusdem sacerdote. Res extra Europam gestas , & alia quaedam suppleuit Petrus Possinus ex eadem Societate. ( with ) Idem...Tomus Posterior ab anno Christi MDXCI ad MDCXVI auctore Josepho Juvencio.‎

‎"18. Roma, Ex Typographia Varesij, 1661, in-folio, (12) nn pp + 550 pp + (36) nn pp (index )(= tomus prior). Roma, Typographia Georgii PLachi, 1710, (8) nn pp + 974 pp (= tomus posterior) , uniformly bound in later half vellum, with marbled boards, leather title label on smooth spine Manuscript ex-libris of a Jesuit college neatly written on title page (of first volume), small circular 19th century library stamp on verso title. Apart from some minor browning at some leaves nice copies. Francesco Sacchini ( Paciano - Perugia 1570 - Roma 1625) compiled a chronological study on the history of the Jesuit Order in five parts (Pars Prima - Pars Quinta). The Pars Prima was first published in Rome in 1614, the Pars Secunda in Antwerp in 1620. We have here the '' Pars Quinta Tomus Prior et Posterior'' complete in two volumes in first edition. This fifth volume (first part) covers the period 1581-1590. During this period Claudio Aquaviva became head of the order and the Jesuits set up their mission in China with Matteo Ricci. The volume is fully indexed. This fifth volume is edited by Pierre Poussines (1609-1686), a French Jesuit called to Rome in 1654 to continu the work of Sacchini who had died already in 1625. The second part covers the period 1591-1616. ( Auguste Carayon ; Bibliographie Historique de la Compagnie de Jésus item 10 . De Backer-Sommervogel VII col. 366)."‎

‎Having a voice - conference - Peripheries and participation at the heart of culture polities - community artistic practicies and civic/ political participation- bread and roses: being the centre? peripheries and cultural policy- quinta do ferro from ...‎

‎ARTEMREDE / HAVING A VOICE. 2023. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 176 pages - quelques planches illustrées en couleur - couverture rempliée - en anglais. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎SOMMAIRE : community artistic practicies and civic/ political participation- bread and roses: being the centre? peripheries and cultural policy- quinta do ferro from participation to gentrification- moita and barreiro- recent processes of decolonization in portuguese theatre- maaya cultural entrepreneurship: the entrepreneurial model of the festival sur le niger- decolonize the arts: presenting the collective ... Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Having a voice - conference - peripheries and participation at the heart of culture polities - community artistic practicies and civic/ political participation- bread and roses: being the centre? peripheries and cultural policy- quinta do ferro from ...‎

‎ARTEMREDE / HAVING A VOICE. 2023. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 176 pages - quelques planches illustrées en couleur - couverture rempliée - en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎SOMMAIRE : community artistic practicies and civic/ political participation- bread and roses: being the centre? peripheries and cultural policy- quinta do ferro from participation to gentrification- moita and barreiro- recent processes of decolonization in portuguese theatre- maaya cultural entrepreneurship: the entrepreneurial model of the festival sur le niger- decolonize the arts: presenting the collective ... Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Furni novi philosophici sive descriptio art is destillatoriae novae. Segue: Furnorum philosophicorum pars altera. Segue: pars tertia; pars quarta e pars quinta; segue: Annotationes in appendice quinta partis. Segue: De Auri sive auro potabili vero, Janssonium, 1651; segue: Tractatus de medicina universalisive auro potabili vero, Jansonium 1658. Segue: Apologia contra mendaces Christophori Farnneri. Amstelodami,1655.‎

‎Amsterodami Apud Joannem Jannsonium 1658 4 opere in un volume in-16° (150 x 90 mm.), pp. 67,(3), 1 b.; 148,(4); 55; 83,(2),1b.; 54,1b.; 72; 22,1b.; 75,(2),1b.; 94,2b., due tavv. f.t. più volte rip. (su tre, manca una tavola f.t.), 7 xilografie n.t., legatura coeva in piena pergamena con nervi passanti, titolo manoscritto al dorso, mancanza alla cuffia superiore. Bell'esemplare, assai fresco e genuino. Chimico (Karlstadt 1604 - Amsterdam 1670). Seguace di Paracelso, studiò la preparazione di acidi minerali e di sali (solfato sodico, sali d'antimonio, d'arsenico, ecc.), la distillazione del legno, la purificazione per cristallizzazione, ecc. Le osservazioni sullo spostamento dei metalli dai loro composti, lo condussero a formulare una prima, approssimativa, tabella di affinità. Nelle sue ricerche introdusse numerose modifiche tecniche nelle apparecchiature di laboratorio, soprattutto fornaci e distillatori, descritte nel suo Furni novi philosophici (1646-49). In quest'opera descrive tutti i tipi di fornaci filosofiche, storte e altri utensili usati dai filosofi ermetici dell' epoca. Espone inoltre, col supporto di un ricchissimo apparato illustrativo tutti gli esperimenti pratici condotti dall' A. Si occupa principalmente dello spirito del sale (sale di Glauber) al quale l' autore attribuisce molte virtù, la lavorazione delle pietre preziose e la distillazione. "Certainly one of the most remarkable book on chemistry of the seventeenth ceentury"(Ferguson). Caillet, 4583; Dorbon, n° 1879 "de la plus grande rareté"; Duveen, 256. La seconda opera (De Auri sive auro potabili vero) è un contributo sull'utilizzo medicale dell'oro. "In questa pubblicazione Glauber insegna a portare l'oro in una forma che può essere consumata. Questo tentativo è piuttosto antico; Paracelso aveva già affrontato questo problema. Raccomanda questa invenzione come medicina contro tutti i possibili disturbi su cui anche il metallo nobile ha un grande effetto. In tempi recenti, i preparati a base di oro hanno ritrovato la loro strada sia nell' allopatia che nell' omeopatia"(Gugel) Duveen, 252; Ferguson, I, 323. La terza (Tractatus de medicina universalisive auro potabili vero) si riallaccia al de auri sull'oro potabile. Glauber parte dall'intenzione di creare una medicina universale che dovrebbe avere un effetto universale in tutti e tre i regni della natura. Essa dovrebbe utilizzare sia le piante che i metalli, cercando di trovare una tintura alchemica nella combinazione del salnitro, che svolge un ruolo importante in tutti e tre i regni della natura, e dell'oro che è l'emanazione del sole. La quarta (Apologia contra mendaces Christophori Farnneri) è un'apologia contro le menzogne di Farner. Nel 1655 Glauber lasciò di nuovo la Germania per Amsterdam, questa volta per non tornare mai più. Il trasferimento era senza dubbio dovuto ad un'aspra disputa avuta con Christophori Farner, che aveva rubato alcuni dei suoi processi e aveva calunniato il suo lavoro e la sua persona. Amsterdam era anche più sensibile alle credenze religiose di Glauber; nato cattolico, ha sostenuto che gli uomini sarebbero stati giudicati dalle loro azioni piuttosto che dalle idiosincrasie di una particolare setta.‎