Commentariorum in apocalypsim Johannis

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An emblem of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica is pasted here. It depicts a pelican in her piety, a traditional symbol where the mother bird feeds her young with her own blood. This represents self-sacrifice and was often used as a Christian allegory for Christ or an alchemical symbol for the perfection of matter. The Latin text in the border reads Hermetic Philosophy. Below the birds, a shield displays three red roses.

[Rupert von Deutz]

Folio: O. K.

Rupert of Deutz original: "Rupertus Tuicensis"

Library Book: 541: 422

Edited by Cochlaeus with 21 large woodcuts by Anton Woensam von Worms.

Merlo, Woensam of Worms Numbers: 342-362
Spahn, Cochlaeus Number 39.
First edition

Rupertus Tuicensis Rupert of Deutz, a Benedictine abbot and influential theologian, Johannes Cochlaeus a major opponent of Martin Luther and the editor of this volume, Anton Woensam von Worms the artist responsible for the woodcut illustrations, Johann Jakob Merlo a 19th-century art historian who cataloged Woensam's work, Martin Spahn a biographer of Cochlaeus, Philosophia Hermetica Hermetic Philosophy, referring to the library that owned this copy