Profecías

1607 · ref. 191768 — Paris: Compagnie de la Grand-Navire Jacques Du Puis 1607. A collection of verse prophecies by the most important oracles of ancient Greece and Rome. Included are the oracles of Apollo in Delphi and Mylos of Jupiter in Dodona and Ammon Hecate and Serapis and other gods such as Aesculapius and Trophonius. The prophecies drawn from classical authors are concerned with health meteorological phenomena births and death including the death of Hannibal p. 63 the outcome of wars and more. The last text is Oneirocreticon an ancient manual on the interpretation of dreams attributed by Scaliger to Astrampsychus; in the manual specific dream events are interpreted as signs that predict real-life outcomes. The work was edited by the philologist Johannes Opsopoeus and first published in 1589 as part his collected edition of the Sibylline oracles. It was reprinted in the same work in 1599 and 1607 but also circulated separately. Octavo 177 x 108 mm pp. xxiiii i.e. xx mispaginated 114 6. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Later vellum over boards edges sprinkled red. Covers bowed and marked turn-ins lifting slightly from pastedowns a couple of leaves lightly foxed. A very good copy. Caillet 10179: Lynn Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science vol. VI 1966 p. 492. hardcover