Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

194 ● Magia Divina; oder, Grund und deutliche Unterricht, von denen fürnehmsten Cabalistischen Künstüken [sic] der Israeliten Welt Weisen und Ersten . . . mit geteilet von L[udwig]V[on] H[ellwig]. MANUSCRIPT IN GERMAN on wove paper, written in kurrent script in brown ink, with drawing of Urim ve-Thummim and 2 tables of the planets governing the hours of the day and night. [37] leaves. 201x161 mm, contemporary wrappers, soiled and worn; contents toned with occasional marginal soiling and scattered stains. German-speaking Europe, later 18th century [500/1,000] Later transcription of a 1745 pamphlet purporting to reveal magic secrets of the ancient Israelites (e. g., how to make Urim ve-Thummim, homunculi, a perpetuum mobile, an invincible sword, a divining rod, etc.). Cf. Caillet 6959. 195 ● Notitia degli Ordini Equestri e Religioni Cavalleresche. ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT IN ITALIAN on paper, written in cursive hand in brown ink with numerous small drawings in text. 121, [11] pages. 147x102 mm, later vellum boards with worn leather lettering piece; marginal dampstaining throughout, split between first and second leaves. Italy, early to mid-18th century [800/1,200] Anonymous compilation of descriptions with pen-and-ink insignia of 93 chivalric and religious orders, loosely based on Bernardo Giustiniani’s 1672 Historie Cronologiche della Vera Origine di tutti gl’Ordini Equestri e Religioni Cavalleresche. 193

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