Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus) : the English Rosicrucian : life and writings / by J. B. Craven.

  • James Brown Craven
Date:
1902
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Credit: Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus) : the English Rosicrucian : life and writings / by J. B. Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    4®. 71 in. Roman letter. A-T'^, i*- ; (8)+ 144+ 68 pp :— (1, 2) blank, (3) title, (4) contents, (5-8) preface to reader, 1-144-1- 1-68 the work. *^* The English edition of which No. 17 of Ebert’s list is a trans- lation. Responsvm | Ad | Hoplocrisma-Spongvm | M. Fosteri Presbiteri, Ab Ipso, Ad | Vngventi Amarii Valid- tatem Delendam | Ordinatvm. | hoc est, | Spongite M. Fosteri Presbyteri | Expressio Sev Elisio. | In qua I Virtuosa spongise ipsius potestas in deter- | gendo Vnguentuin armarium, exprimitur, eliditur ac fundi- tus aboletur : ac tandem immodestia & erga Fratres suos incivilitas, aceto veritatis acerrimo cor- | rigitur & penitus extinguitur. | Bilis acutissima, aceto cor recta acerrimo, redditur dulcior. | [Psalm 92, 7 quoted] Avthore, | Rob: Flvd: alias de Flvctibvs, | Arniigero & Medicinse Doctore Oxoniensi. | [Device.] Govdse, I Excudebat Petrus Rammazenius, Biblio- pola M.DC.xxxviii [1G38]. | Fol. 12 in. Roman letter. A-H^; 30 +(2) leaves:—la title, blank, 2 preface, 3-30a the work, :^0b blank, (1) errata, (2) missing, probably blank. No. 17 of Eherfs list. Roberti Fludd De Fluctibus . . . Meteoronnn insalu- brium mysterium : duabus sectionibus divisurn, quarum, prima generalem morborum naturam, sive variam munimenti salutis hostiliter invadendi atque oppug- nandi rationem more novo describit. Altera Prognos- ticon supercoeleste: in quo meteororum morbosorum signa, tarn demonstrativa quani progiiostica lucide speculantur et modo baud vulgari designantur. His accessit Oyromantia, sive devinatio per Uriuam nec non nova et arcana Pulsnum scientia. . . . Moguntice, L. Bourgml, 1082. Fol. 12 in. 3 parts in 1 vol. I. (16) + 503 pp.+ (1) p., 1 plate. II. 413 pp.+(1) p., 1 plate. III. 93 pp.+(l)p., 1 large folding table of three sheets joined. A reissue with a new title page of nos. 13, 14, and 10 of Ebert’s list. The dedications are omitted and the hieroglyphical engraving and description at beginning of no. 13. Tlie plate with volvelles is missing in no. 14, but it has a plate, wanting in the earlier issue, between pp. 58 and 59 (numbered in error 55). Apologia I compendiaria | Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce I suspicionis et infamiae maculis as | persam,