De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, etc. (1497) — Gallery of Early Printed Books

Index leaf listing the contents — Opening leaf with the "Index eorum, quae hoc in libro habentur," cataloguing the eleven texts from Iamblichus through Ficino's own *De voluptate*; the round stamp "KOENIGL. BIBLIOTHEK ZU DUSSELDORF" and an early shelfmark "Scr. Gr. 137" are visible (f. 1r).

Incipit of Iamblichus De mysteriis with woodcut initial — Incipit of the title work, "IAMBLICHVS DE MYSTERIIS. De cognitione divinorum," opening "Egyptii scriptores putantes omnia inuenta esse a Mercurio…" beneath a white-vine woodcut initial "A," with signature mark "a ii" (f. 2r).

Ficino's dedicatory epistle to Giovanni de' Medici — Marsilio Ficino's dedicatory letter to Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (the future Leo X), "Marsilius Ficinus florentinus… D. Ioanni Medici… Cardinali suppliciter se commendat," followed by his "Argumentum in librum Iamblichi."

Opening of Proclus, De anima et daemone — A text page from Proclus's *In Platonicum Alcibiadem de anima atque daemone*, with the running header "PROCLVS / DE ANIMA ET DAEMONE," representative of the dense roman-type setting of the Neoplatonic treatises in the corpus.

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Aldus Manutius's 1497 collection of the late-antique Neoplatonic and Hermetic corpus, in Marsilio Ficino's Latin translations: Iamblichus's De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum, together with Proclus, Porphyry, Synesius, Psellus, Priscianus, Albinus, Speusippus, Xenocrates, and the Aurea verba of Pythagoras. Printed in Aldus's roman type, the volume gathers the theurgic and demonological texts that fed Renaissance Platonism and the revival of magic; the Düsseldorf copy carries the stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek zu Düsseldorf.

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