(Ashb. 1166, ff. 5v-6r)
Questa sezione, che include una vasta banca dati, consente l'accesso alle informazioni e ai contenuti bibliografici, nonché alla consultazione delle riproduzioni digitali dei manoscritti ermetici di epoca medievale.
La realizzazione del catalogo bibliografico si basa sul censimento dei libri estratti dal volume I testi e i codici di Ermete nel Medioevo edito da Paolo Lucentini e Vittoria Perrone Compagni e dall'appendice Le stampe ermetiche curata da Paolo Lucentini e Antonella Sannino, Firenze 2001, per quanto riguarda i testi numerati 1-23, 43-45, e i campi "descrizione", "manoscritti" e "libro antico".
La raccolta sistematica dei dati delle stampe antiche comprende le loro localizzazioni, rintracciate attraverso l'aiuto di ampie banche dati.
This section, which includes a vast database, provides access to bibliographical and content information and to consultation of digital reproductions of medieval Hermetic manuscripts.
The realization of the bibliographic records draws on the book census carried out in the volume I testi e i codici di Ermete nel Medioevo, edited by Paolo Lucentini and Vittoria Perrone Compagni, and in the appendix Le stampe ermetiche edited by Paolo Lucentini and Antonella Sannino, Firenze 2001, insofar as concerns the texts numbered 1-23, 43-45, and the fields "description", "manuscripts" and "ancient book".
The systematic data collection of ancient prints includes their localization, retrieved through the aid of broad databases.
The Liber de quattuor confectionibus ad omnia genera animalium capienda is the Latin translation of an Arabic treatise about natural magic. Handed down from a single manuscript, the text in dialogical form is mentioned by the author of the Speculum astronomiae and by William of Auvergne in De universo.
The text consists of a collection of astrological aphorisms attributed to Hermes probably translated by a lost Arabic origil by the physician and philosopher of the 11th century Haly Abenrudianus ('Ali ibn Ridwan).
It is difficult to determine whether the Liber Antimaquis (book of the spiritual works of Aristotle and the secrets of Hermes) represents the direct translation of a set of treaties on Hermetic magic, with several titles in Arabic manuscripts, or the adaptation of a previous version.
The book includes some notions of astronomy and describes only the first phase of training in geomancy, with the definition of the figures but without providing further guidance to the learner on how to practice the art of divination.
The Kyranides describe, in alphabetical order, the magical healing powers of plants, animals, stones and their secret relationship.
The original version of the Iatromathematica consists of two slightly different Greek versions. The second one is the basis of the two Latin versions we have.
This text presents in detail the movements of the Earth.
Erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, the text circulates, with great success, from the XIII century circulates, within a collection of texts about magic, natural philosophy, chemistry and medicine, with various titles: Experimenta, Liber Experimentorum, Secrets Alberti, De virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium, De herbarum proprietatibus naturis et animalium lapidum, Liber aggregationis.
The Compendium Aureum, also known as Tractatus de septem herbis septem planetis attributis, accompanies the De consideratione quintae essentiae of the Franciscan John of Rupescissa (14th century) in numerous manusc
It is an anthology of one hundred astrological aphorisms of Arab origin, written by Stephen of Messina between 1258 and 1266, and dedicated to Manfredi of Sicily.
Capitulum de arbore borissa is a short treatise containing the magical, alchemical and medical explanation of borissa, a plant that belongs to the genre of Lunariae.
Asclepius is the Latin translation of an original Greek treatise of second or third century, entitled Logos teleios and sometimes mistakenly included among the works of Apuleius (second century).