Albinius, Petrus Constantius

Magie astrologique, ou clef de la sympathie des sept métaux, et des sept pierres choisies avec les planettes: qui enseigne la manière de composer les anneaux magiques des planettes, et les sceaux des douze signes du Zodiaque. Traduit du Latin. Title within coloured pen-drawn border. Illustrated with numerous small pasted-in woodcuts of sigils, etc., coloured by hand, and surrounded by rough panel decorations. There are also water-colour figures of the planetary signs, in black on a yellow ground. Readings in red.

mid-18th century

1 volume 1 l. + 189 pp. + 9 bl. ll. 12mo. 151/2 x 91/2 cm. Original calf-gilt binding.

Purchased 1935.

On the verso of the second fly-leaf is an Ex-libris pasted-in, inscribed 'Ex Bibliotheca Majoris Seminarii Nannetensis [Nantes]'.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

The work is a translation of the Author's 'Magia astrologica', first published in Paris in 1611, as a key to the 'Sympathia septem metallorum' of Petrus Arlensis de Soudalupis. The latter work was itself part of the edition of the 'Speculum lapidum' of Camillus Leonardus issued by Scudalupis at Paris in 1610, in which the 'Sympathia' was contained on pp. 245-499. The 'Speculum' itself was first printed at Venice in 1502.