Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici

Name: Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Author: Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement

Treatises on the True Salt and the Universal Spirit of the World

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Original Errata for the Philosophical Poem

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French

1621 Original errata leaf, verso · scans FR342

Page 21. ligne 21. ostez point, & mettez &, car il faut bien peu d'air & de feu. Pag. 32. lig. 20. ostez un e qui est à ce mot encore, parce qu'il faut encor. Pag. 65. lig. derniere, au lieu de maux, escrivez en marge mors. Pag. 77. lig. 13. au lieu de pourpre cirien, mettez Tirien.

Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici: Original Errata for the Philosophical Poem

1621 Original errata leaf, verso · scans FR342

Page 21, line 21: remove the full stop and put an ampersand, giving ‘for very little air and fire is needed’. Page 32, line 20: remove an e from encore, since the reading should be encor (‘still’). Page 65, last line: in the margin write mors in place of maux (‘ills’). Page 77, line 13: in place of pourpre cirien, put Tirien (‘Tyrian purple’).

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

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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