The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy

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Primary Latin images: Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, digitised by Google Books, volume uJNr_M9LDGgC. The Arcanum is the separately paginated part beginning with provider page RA1-PA1. Stable provider page names and locally recorded image hashes distinguish the physical sequence from misprinted historical headers. The complete source inventory accounts for title, preface, canons, correction leaf, blank leaves and binding surfaces.

Historical English sources: Getty Research Institute copy of the 1650 English collection, digitised through Internet Archive; Wellcome Library copy of the 1893 Collectanea Hermetica volume I, also available through Internet Archive. The reproduced figure comes from the 1650 reception material. The later Latin comparison was supplied by ETH-Bibliothek Zürich through e-rara. Historical attribution belongs to the catalogue tradition; the 1623 title’s anonymity is preserved.

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