Von der ewigen Heimlichkeit und der heimlichen Ewigkeit
Von der ewigen Heimlichkeit / Picatrix
Printing History, Manuscripts. Not printed. At least the Leiden manuscript is attributed to Paracelsus.
Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.
Relationship between different versions.
Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.
Relationship to other texts.
Authenticity, authorship.
Time of writing. One manuscript is dated 1597 (Erlangen), another one 1567 (Leiden). According to Gilly it is a German version of the entire first book and the first three chapters of the second book of the Picatrix.
Manuscripts:
- Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek: MS B 242 (olim Irm. 1707); 59 fols. [not attributed to Paracelsus]
- Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek: Ms. 21 A 10, f. 149–223
- Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek: Voss. Chym. F.14, f. 410r–458r
First printed: not printed
Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Paracelsus-Handschriften, 686–688, 798 n° IV/17
Further bibliographical references:
Boeren, Codices Vossiani Chymici (1975), 48.
Carlos Gilly, “Paracelsus, Hermes, Ficino, and the ‘Picatrix deutsch’,” in Sebastiano Gentile and Carlos Gilly, eds., Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Ermete Trismegisto (Florence, 1999), 302–306 n° 63.
Gilly, “Vom ägyptischen Hermes zum Trismegistus Germanus” (2010), 98–99.
Bellingradt and Otto, Magical Manuscripts (2017), 21 n. 71.
