JOACHIM DE FLORE

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JOACHIM DE FLORE
Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae. Venice, Girolamo Porro, 1589. - Vaticinia seu praedictiones illustrium virorum. Venice, Gio. Battista Bertoni, 1605. 2 works in one volume in-4, red morocco, double fillet bordered of gilded dots in frame, gilded emblem in the center, spine with three nerves decorated with a repeated fleuron, gilded title in the second box, spotted edges of red (Binding of the XVIIth century) Collection of two Venetian editions of the prophecies of Joachim de Flore, a Cistercian monk from Calabria born around 1130 and died in 1202. The doctrine of this religious, as recalled in a handwritten note on a guard at the beginning of the volume, was condemned in the 4th Lateran Council, held in 1215 under Innocent III who presided in person, and it was condemned as containing fabulous revelations concerning the future state of the Church. Rare first edition of the Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae, the bilingual text in Italian and Latin, including a life of the author (cf. Caillet, n°5541 and Dorbon, n°2279). It is decorated with a title-frontispiece, 2 beautiful full-page figures, a figure of the prophetic wheel known as Pius IV, and 31 curious allegorical figures representing the destiny of the popes, all engraved in intaglio and included in the pagination. The Vaticinia seu praedictiones contains, in addition to the vaticinations of Joachim de Flore, those of the bishop Anselm, of Giodocho Palmerio, of the blessed John abbot, and of the Polish father Egidius. It is illustrated with a beautiful architectural title-frontispiece including medallion portraits of the authors, and 6 copper-engraved figures of prophetic wheels. RECTIFICATION: Superb volume from the library of Honoré d'Agut (1565-1643), counselor at the parliament of Provence and great friend of Peiresc. It bears at the bottom of the title the wet stamp with the monogram HDAMB which is that of Honoré d'Agut and his wife Marguerite de Blégiers. The workmanship of the binding, in particular the titling on the spine, is characteristic of the style of Simon Corberan, who was Peiresc's regular bookbinder but whom Honoré d'Agut also called upon for the cover of his copies (see on this subject the study by Bruno Marty, De quelques signes extérieurs de Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc). It then belonged to Stanislas de Guaïta (1861-1897), with his gilded bookplate and a handwritten note in his hand giving an explanation of the mysterious figures XVIII and XIX of the first work. Poet and occultist, founder with Joséphin Péladan of the kabalistic order of the Rose-Croix, Guaïta had gathered an extraordinary collection of books of occult sciences. He had an emblematic iron stamped in the center of the dishes of the Martinists, disciples of the doctrine of Saint Martin (the "unknown philosopher"), a society of which he was himself a follower and one of the founders with Papus. Unknown wet monogram at the bottom of the title. Eighteenth-century printed bookplate: Jacobi Constant Parochi Sti Trophimi; handwritten bookplate: Fourgeaud-Lagrèze 1864. From the libraries of Albert Pascal and Stanislas de Guaïta (1899, n°1487). Some light spotting, 4 interchanged leaves in the second book. Discrete scratches on the second cover.
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