O R P H I C P O E M S

original: "ORPHICA"

PART ONE

original: "PARS PRIMA"

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Orphic Poems, Part One
Orphica refers to a collection of hexameter poems and fragments attributed to the mythical poet Orpheus, though actually composed by various authors in antiquity.

LOGIC?

original: "LOGICA"

OR?

original: "SIVE"

THE ART OF THINKING?

original: "ARS COGITANDI". This is the famous "Port-Royal Logic," an influential handbook on logic and philosophy originally written in French by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, then translated into Latin for scholarly use across Europe.

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A faint, oval-shaped library stamp or printer's mark is visible in the lower center of the page, containing illegible text and a small decorative border.

original: "LUGDUNI BATAVORUM". This is the Latin name for Leiden, a major center for printing and scholarship in the Netherlands during the 17th century.

original: "MDCLXXXII"