⚠Extreme bleed-through from the reverse side (the title page) makes much of the visible text mirrored and difficult to read. The page appears to be a flyleaf or endpaper with handwritten ownership and library marks.

Christopher Hartman Likely a former owner of the book.

25 79 - 1 These numbers are typical of library shelf marks or inventory codes.

Carlisle Library

The following text is visible as mirrored show-through from the title page on the reverse side of this leaf:

The

Epistles

OF

JACOB BOEHME original: "JACOB BEHMEN." This was the common phonetic spelling of the German mystic's name in 17th-century England.

otherwise,

original: "ALITER"

THE TEUTONIC PHILOSOPHER

original: "TEUTONICUS PHILOSOPHUS" — Boehme was called the "Teutonic Philosopher" because he wrote his profound mystical works in his native German (Teutonic) rather than the academic Latin usual for the period.

Very useful and necessary,

more so than what had been previously

printed; full of excellent and

high instruction on how to attain

the life of [Christ]

Translated out of the German Language

LONDON

Printed by Matthew Simmons for Giles Calvert

original: "Gyles Calvert." Calvert was a prominent London bookseller known for publishing radical religious and mystical texts.

at the Black Spread Eagle at the West

end of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1649.

original: "Pauls"