PSELLUS (Michel). Traicté par dialogue de l'énergie ou opéra - Lot 162

PSELLUS (Michel). Traicté par dialogue de l'énergie ou opération des diables. Et les principaux articles des hérétiques. Paris, Guillaume Chaudière, s.d. [at the end]: 18 lan 1573 iour de Septuagesime. In-8, ivory vellum (19th-century binding). First edition of the French translation, by Pierre Moreau, Tourangeau (Caillet, no. 9011: "Très rare"; Guaïta, no. 875; Yve-Plessis, no. 837). Psellus (or Psellos) (1020-1110), mathematician and Hermetic philosopher born and died in Constantinople, was the tutor of Byzantine emperor Michel Ducas, known as Parapinace. His works form part of the corpus of ancient authorities on the magi of the Renaissance. This treatise was written against the Manichians, Euchites, Enthusiastes, & other demoniac heretics, against their abominable as well as subtle practices. It was first known from an incomplete Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino. Slight marginal wetness.