Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 313

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PSELLUS, MICHAEL, attributed to. De operatione daemonum dialogus. Greek text with Latin translation by Pierre Morel and notes by Gilbert Gaulmin. [16], 153, [7] pages. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum; contents toned, dampstaining in upper inner corner of opening leaves. Signature of the art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-96). Paris: Hieronymus Drouart, 1615
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first edition of the original greek text of a treatise on demonology ascribed to the 11th-century Byzantine philosopher Psellus (1018-78). Morel''s translation was first published in 1577; an earlier Latin version by Marsilio Ficino appeared in the 1497 edition of Iamblichus, De mysteriis Aegyptorum. DSB XI, 182-86; Hoffmann III, 303; Sarton I, 750.