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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Historical Preliminaries

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German & Latin

unnumbered explanation of the arms

Emblematis Philosophici loco Insignia Authoris.

A Maximiliano II. ann. 1570. in Comit. Spirens. Majoribus suis, ob benemerita, & servitia militaria, tum Sæ. Suæ tum Carol. V. & Ferdinando I. Imperatorib. nec non Philipp. Hispan. Reg. Cæs. & Reg. M.M.M.Mtib. ultra trigint. ann. tam contra Turc. quam alios Imperii & Dom. Austriacæ hostes præstita, concessa & confirmata, & quidem propter Phœnicem illis forsan non sine omine insertam, hic apponere libuit.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Historical Preliminaries

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In place of a philosophical emblem: the author’s arms.

It has pleased the author to place here the arms granted and confirmed to his forebears by Maximilian II at the Diet of Speyer in the year 1570, for their merits and military services rendered for more than thirty years to his Sacred Majesty, to the Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I, and also to King Philip of Spain—their Imperial and Royal Majesties—against the Turks as well as other enemies of the Empire and the House of Austria; particularly because of the phoenix incorporated in them, perhaps not without an omen.

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About This Reading Edition

An anonymous Hermetic treatise of 1680, presented in its original German and Latin with a new English translation, 279 explanatory notes, the historical phoenix frontispiece, an introduction, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and original registers.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Candida Phoenix philosophica. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Hermsdorff, 1680. The chosen witness is the Wellcome Library copy digitized as b32993456; German and Latin, with French, Greek, and Hebrew passages retained.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The 1680 source is identified as public domain by the Wellcome/Internet Archive record. The supplied 2026 transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. The frontispiece is retained from the supplied edition and credited to its historical witness.