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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World
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Extract from the Royal Privilege
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1621 Unnumbered preliminary page · scans FR005Par grace & Privilege du Roy il est permis à Ieremie Perier marchand Libraire en l'Université de Paris, de faire imprimer, vendre & distribuer un livre intitulé Traittez de l'Harmonie & constitution generalle du vray Sel, secret des Philosophes, & de l'esprit universel du monde, suivant le troisiesme Principe du Cosmopolite: Composé par le sieur de Nuisement, Receveur general du Comté de Ligny en Barrois. Avec deffences à tous Libraires, Imprimeurs & Relieurs, d'imprimer ou faire imprimer, vendre & distribuer autres que ceux que ledit Perier aura fait imprimer jusques au temps & terme de six ans finis & accomplis, à peine de huict cens livres d'amende, moitié applicable au Roy, & l'autre moitié audit exposant: ainsi qu'il est plus amplement contenu és lettres de Privilege donnees à Paris le sixiesme jour de Novembre, mil six cens vingt: signees, Par le Conseil, BERGERON.
Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Extract from the Royal Privilege
1621 Unnumbered preliminary page · scans FR005By the King’s grace and privilege, Jérémie Périer, bookseller of the University of Paris, is permitted to have printed, sell and distribute a book entitled Treatises on the Harmony and General Constitution of the True Salt, the Secret of the Philosophers, and of the Universal Spirit of the World, Following the Third Principle of the Cosmopolite, composed by the Sieur de Nuysement, receiver general of the County of Ligny in Barrois. All booksellers, printers and binders are forbidden to print, have printed, sell or distribute any copies other than those which the said Périer shall have had printed, until the full term of six years has expired, under penalty of a fine of eight hundred livres, half payable to the King and the other half to the petitioner, as is more fully set out in the letters of privilege granted at Paris on the sixth day of November, sixteen hundred and twenty, signed: By the Council, BERGERON.
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The complete French text of 1621 with a new English translation, all three books, preliminary texts, nine concluding sonnets, original errata, 299 annotations and the complete supplied study apparatus.
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Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement, Traittez de l’harmonie et constitution generalle du vray sel, secret des Philosophes, & de l’Esprit universelle du Monde. Paris: Jérémie Périer and Abdias Buisard, 1621. The governing witness is the BnF/Gallica reproduction, ark:/12148/bpt6k656273. The reproduced privilege is dated 6 November 1620; the separate eighty-page Poème philosophic of 1620 is outside this edition.
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