Light Emerging of Itself from Darkness

This book belongs
to me, Francis Quillet flourish?
original Latin: "Ex Liber Pertinet franciscus ad me Quillet." This is a common, if grammatically informal, ownership formula used by students and book collectors in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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A printed bookplate is pasted in the center of the page. It features a circular gold border with the inscription "Hermetic Philosophy" original Latin: "PHILOSOPHIA · HERMETICA". The central emblem is an oval with a blue background showing a white Pelican in her PietyA traditional Christian and alchemical symbol of a mother pelican feeding her young with her own blood, representing self-sacrifice and the "reddening" stage of the alchemical process.—a mother pelican pecking her breast to feed her chicks with her own blood. She is perched on a white cubic pedestal or altar decorated with four red roses arranged in a diamond pattern. Above the pelican, golden rays of light emanate from a green and gold celestial semi-circle at the top of the oval.

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Checked for completeness on September 30, 1997
The following string refers to the "signatures" or lettered groupings of pages, used to ensure the printer bound the book in the correct order.
a6, e4, A8-B4-Dd8, Ee4,