Revelatio in somnio

also:
Revelatio per somnium

I. Basic information

Printing History, Manuscripts. Not printed. One manuscript. Both titles, “Revelatio in somnio” (f. II^r, 8v) and “Revelatio per somnium” (f. III^r) were added by a later hand in the Breslau manuscript.

Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.

Relationship between different versions. Only one known version.

Structure, genre/form, perspective, style. In some parts the text directly addresses the reader. The order of the different sections is sometimes disturbed; the writer used symbols to indicate a different order.

Relationship to other texts. A text on earth spirits (pygmaei, sylphae) and treasures. The relationship to chapter 5 of the pseudo-Paracelsian De occulta philosophia (§ ‎5.7) and to the authentic De nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis is unclear. – Not related to the Oraculum Oneiromanticum / Magisches Arcanum mit der Malerei zu erfahren was du willst durch den Schlaf (§ ‎5.19). – See also Von den Erdgeistern (§ ‎5.26).

Authenticity, authorship.

Time of writing. Further study required.

II. Sources

Manuscripts:

• Wrocław/Breslau, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka: R 2316, f. 8v–17r, p. 35–72

First printed: not printed

III. Bibliography

Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Paracelsus-Handschriften, 663–665, 797 n° IV/7.

Further bibliographical references:

Peuckert, Pansophie (1936), 531.

Peuckert, Pansophie (1956), 474.