Lincolne, varied still the father from the sonne, as might be particularly proved. "In these holy warres many armes were altered, and new assumed upon divers occasions, as the Veres Earles of Oxford, who bare before quarterly Gueles and Or, inserted a mollet in the first quarter, for that a shooting starre fell thereon when one of them served in the Holy Land. The L. Barkleys, who bare first Gueles a cheves ron Arg. after one of them had taken upon him the crosse, for that was then the phrase, to serve in those warres, inserted ten crosses pattè in his shield. So Geffray of Boullion, the glorious general in those warres, at one draught of his bowe, shooting against David's tower in Hierusalem, broched three feetlesse birds, called Allerions, upon his arrow, and thereupon assumed in a shield, Or, three allerions Argent on a bend Gueles, which the house of Lorrian descending from his race continueth to this day. So Leopald the fifth Marques of Austria, who bare formerly sixe larkes Or in Azure, when his coate-armour at the seige of Acres in the Holy Land was all dyed in bloud save his belt, he took for his armes, Gueles, a white belt, or a fesse Argent, which is the same, in memory thereof." Mr. URBAN, Feb. 18. Dibdin, is a long note upon the Liber Aggregationis Alberti Magni, an edition of which was early printed in this country by William Mechlin, but without date. Mr. Dibdin seems by this note to have bestowed peculiar research upon the works of this author, which are certainly very curious; but as it appears that the editor has seen no other copy of this work than that published by Mechlin, I beg leave to state some particulars of a copy in the possession of Mr. Haworth, which I believe to be the edition of that work from which Mechlin printed his, as they perfectly agree in every word, even the abbreviations. This work was beautifully printed at Augsburgh in 1478 by John de Annunciata, in double columns, with large margins, and upon most excellent paper. Like most of the works published at that time it has no title-page; though the addition of that useful appendage was soon after adopted. The Perutilis repetitio famosi, &c. printed by Gregory * Genealogiæ Antiquæ. Botticher at Leipzig in 1493, has a title-page. This work, like the other, proves the art of paper-making and printing to have been brought to great perfection in Germany at that time. Indeed Augsburgh was then famous in the useful arts; and when Mr. Dibdin, according to his Promise, shall have laid before us the foreign treasures of Lord Spencer's library, we shall not, perhaps, find it much behind Mentz in the art of typography. In 1478 an edition of the Liber Aggregationis was printed by Schribber at Bologna. Albert, after having resigned the episcopacy of Ratisbon, returned to his cloister. He was born at Cologne I should infer from the following extract:-" Explicuu't secreta aliqua Alberti Magni de Coloia super," &c. The books commence as follows: "Liber primus de viribus quarund' herbarum." The second begins with an enumeration of a variety of stones, and then "Si vis scire utr. mulier tua sit casta, accipe lapide' qui magnes vocatur est," &c. The book ends with a variety of astrological observations at e 3.Then Impressus quide' est hoc opusculu' per magisterium Johannem de Annunciata de Augusta. laus Deo, pararoseq' Virgini Marie, necno' toti curie celesti triumphanti, anno salutis M.CCCCLXXVIII." I should think Mr. Dibdin's inquiries would be much facilitated by a little more attention to the watermarks of those copies, where the dates and printers' names are omitted; such is the case with the work entitled "Here begynneth a lytel treatyse of the horse, the shepe, and the goos;" of which there are three editions, and, perhaps, but one copy remaining of each. The Roxburgh copy was printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and has one leaf more than the Cambridge. Mr. Haworth's copy wants the last leaf, but had the same number as the Cambridge, which Mr. Dibdin supposes to have been printed by Caxton. It has also the following watermark, which I do not find engraved in Ames's impressions of Caxton's water-marks: a circle divided into six compartments, one line branches out of the circle about half an inch, and ends ends in a small flower or diamond. There are also short appendages slanting from the outside of the circle. The print is certainly Caxtonian, and belongs to Reynard the Fox. It represents a lion seated under a tree, crowned and sceptred, having before him a dog, a cat, a pig and a wolf laying their complaints of reynard, who is seen in the back ground seizing a hare or a rabbit. The poetry of this little thing by Lydgate is simple, grave, and very interesting. Yours, &c. R. JONES. ANALYSIS OF BOOKS. No. VII. Title. "Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus,his Divine Pymander, in seventeen' books. Together with his second book called Asclepius, containing fifteen chapters, with a commentary. Translated formerly out of the Arabick into Greek, and thence into Latine, and Dutch, and now out of the original into English. By that learned Divine Dr. Everard*. London. Printed by J. S. for Thomas Brewster, at the Three Bibles, in St. Paul's Church Yard, near the West end, 1657." 24mo. "Judicious Reader. This book may justly challenge the first place for antiquity, from all the books in the world, being written some hundred of years before Moses his time, as I shall endeavour to make good. The originall (as far as it is known to us) is Arabick, and several translations thereof have been published, as Greek, Latine, French, Dutch, &c. but never English before, It is pity the learned translator [Doct. Everard +] had not lived, and received himself the honour and thanks due to him from Englishmen, for his good will to, and pains for them in translating a book of such infinite worth, out of the originall into their mother tongue. "Concerning the authour of the book itself, Four things are considerable, viz. his name, learning, country, and time. 1. The name by which he was commonly styled Hermes Trismegistus, i. e. Mercurius Ter Maximus,or the Thrice Greatest Intelligencer. 2. His learning will appear, as by his works, so by the right understanding of the reason of his name. 3. For his country, he was king of Egypt. 4. For his time, it is not without much controversie betwixt them that write of this divine, ancient author, what time he lived in. Some say he lived after Moses his time, giving this slender reason for it, viz. because he was named Ter Marimus, for being preferred (according to the Egyptian customs) being chief philosopher, to be chief of chief in government and king. But if the priesthood, and from thence to be this be all their ground, you must excuse my dissent from them, and that for this reason, because, according to the most learned of his followers, he was called Ter Maximus, for having perfect and exact knowledge of all things contained in the world; which things he divided into three kingdoms, as he calls them, viz. Mineral, Vegitable, Animal, otherwise the great Elixir of the philoso; phers, which is the receptacle of all celestial and terrestriall virtues; which secret many ignorantly deny, many have chargeably sought after, yet few, but some, yea, and Englishmen [Ripley, Bacon, Norman, &c.] have happily found. The description of this great. treasure is said to be found engraved upon a Smaragdine table, in the valley of Ebron, after the flood. So that the reason alleaged to prove this authour to live after Moses seems invalid; neither doth it any way appear that he lived in Moses his time. It is received among the ancients, that he was the first that invented the art of communicating knowledge to the world by writing or engraving. Now if so, then in all probability he was before Moses; for it is said of Moses [Acts vii. 22.] that he was, from his childhood, skilled in all the Egyptian learning, which could not well have been without the help of literature, which we never read of any before that invented by Hermes. In this book, though so very old, is contained more true knowledge of God and Nature, than in all the books of the world besides, I except only sacred writ. There is contained in this book that true philosophy, without which it is impossible ever to attain to the height and exactnesse of Piety and Religion. According to this philosophy, I call him a philosopher, that shall learn and study the things that are, and how they are erdered, and governed, and by whom, and for what cause, or to what end; and he that doth so, will acknowledge thanks to, and admire the Omnipotent * Hermes surnamed Trismegistus, or Thrice Great, is supposed to have lived A. M. 2076. Casaubon believed this book to be written by a Christian to assert Christianity by a pious fraud, making Hermes say part of what the Christians believe. This book was counterfeited about the beginning of the second century. Biog, Dict. art. Hermes. + Query, who was Dr, Everard? GENT. MAG. March, 1812, Creator? Creator, Preserver, and Director of all these things. I am not of the ignorant and foolish opinion of those that say, the greatest philosophers are the greatest Atheists; as if to know the works of God, and to understand his goings forth in the way of Nature, must necessitate a man to deny God. The scripture disapproves of this as a sottish tenent [Job 38.], and experience contradicts it: for behold! here is the greatest philosopher, and, therefore, the greatest divine. MAN as to a good FATHER, an excellent NURSE, and a faithful STEWARD, and he that gives thanks shall be pious and religious, and he that is religious shall know both where the truth is, and what it is; and learning that he will be yet more and more religious...... 8. For this onely, O Son, is the way to the TRUTH which our PROGENITORS travelled in; and by which making their journey, they at length attained to the good. It is a venerable way and plain, but hard and difficult for the soul to go in, that is, in the body. 9. For, first, it must war against its own self, &c. &c. J. B. Feb. 25. (To be continued.) · "Read, understandingly, this ensuing book, (and for thy help, thou mayest make use of that voluminous commentary written upon it, viz. Hannibal· Rosseli Calabar.) then it will speak more for its author than can be spoken by any ARCHITECTURALINNOVATION NOCLX. man, at least by me. Thine in the love of the truth, J. F.* The Titles of every Book of Hermes Trismegistus. "Lib. 1. His first book. 2. Poemander. 3. The Holy Sermon. 4. The Key. 5. That God is not manifest, and yet most manifest. 6. That God alone is good. 7. The Secret Sermon on the Mount, of Regeneration, and the Profession of Silence. 8. That the greatest Evil in Man, is the not knowing of God, 9. A Universall Sermon to Asclepius. 10. The Minde to Hermes. 11. Of the Common Minde to Tat. [or Tatius.] 12. Hermes Trismegistus, his Crator, or Monas. 13. Of Sense and Understanding. 14. Of Operation and Sense. 15. Of Truth to his Son Tat. 16. That none of the Things that are can perish. 17. To Asclepius, to be truly wise." Rise and Progress of Architecture Pointed Style of Architecture during change in religion,politicks,morals, architecture, painting, costume in dress, and numerous other particulars; none gave way more to the delusive phantom, than did that of our antient architecture, both with respect to an entire subversion in its original character, and by the ruthless devastations wrought on some of its brightest examples; indeed, those left us at this day lie at the mercy of capricious taste, and gloomy innovation; under the specious plea of improvement and repair. We may readily assert, that in Henry's reign, and for near a century raised; and it is supposed that Coafter, no ecclesiastical buildings were vent Garden Church, by Inigo Jones, was the first structure erected for that purpose; and although adapted to the uses of the Protestant service, yet it bears the form and semblance, in plan and elevation, of a Pagan temple, being of the Roman order of architecture. But more of this in its due. place. If any attention was paid to old churches in Edward VI. and Eliza 4. Be pious and religious, O my Son; for he that doth so is the best and high-beth's reigns, it must have been upon est philosopher; and without philoso- the score of alteration, to suit in some phy, it is impossible to attain to the instances the established mode of worheighth and exactnesse of piety or religion. ship; but yet of no moment, so as to count upon any great points of information to be obtained upon the new mode of design. Lordly mansions, princely palaces, engaged all the art of the land in this respect; and they were done on a scale the most exten 5. But he that shall learn and study the things that are; and how they are ordered and governed; and by whom, and for what cause, or to what end; will acknowledge thanks to the woRK** Query, who was J. F.? |