The world annihilates itself and reappears six thousand five hundred million times a day.
Buddha, unknown text, 6th century BCE
Page from Jacques de Voragine’s The Golden Legend—originally written in the 11th century CE (unknown illuminator—possibly Jean de Vignay, late 14th to mid 15th century).
(photographed by Collin Colsher, Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, 2018).
Frontispiece and pages to Guy Lefèvre de la Boderie’s L'Harmonie du Monde 1815 French Edition—a translation of Francesco Giorgi's De harmonia mundi totius cantica tria (originally published by Giorgi and Georges Venitien in 1525) (words by Giorgi, translation and illustrations by Lefèvre de la Boderie, 1578 CE).
(via BnF: Gallica)
Page from Hartmann Schedel’s The Nuremberg Chronicle aka Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles), detailing the histories of Charles II, Charles III, John Scotus Eriugena, & Pope Anastasius I (written by Hartmann Schedel, illustrations by Michael Wolgemut & Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, published by Anton Koberger, 1493 CE).
(via eBay/Pic Click)
Title page to Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fleeing (art by Matthias Merian, 1617 CE).
(via Wikipedia)
Pages from Paracelsus’ The Supreme Mysteries of Nature (originally written in the 15th century, English version by R. Turner published in 1656, artist unknown).
(reblogged from Language of Birds, via Archive.org)
Details from the Claude Paradin’s Symbola Heroica (Claude Paradin, D. Gabrielis Symeonis, & John the Pilot, 1600 CE).
(reblogged from Pinterest & Miscellaneous Escapdes)
Pages from The Hieroglyphic Monad (John Dee, 1602 CE).
(via eBay)
triste-le-roy reblogged
Images from Compendium Rarissimum: Art by famous magickal masters of the year 1057—do not touch me (artists unknown, 1775). NOTE that the year 1057 in the title is fictitious as this is definitively an 18th century text.
Pages from the Ars Notoria section of The Lesser Key of Solomon, containing magickal symbols and spells intended to grant eidetic memory and instantaneous learning to the magician—(unknown artist/writer, compiled from materials written in the 11th century, published mid 17th century).
(via Pinterest)
Liber Figurarum, Il Drago dalle Sette Teste (Joachim of Fiore AKA Joachim of Flora AKA Gioacchino da Fiore, late 12th century CE).
(via Panoramio)
Pages from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres), first published 1533—(English version translated by J.F. and printed by R. W. for Gregory Moule, 1651).
(via PBA Galleries & University of Cambridge)