Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica: named after Hermes Trismegistus

Posted on December 21, 2014 by BPH

Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica: named after Hermes Trismegistus

The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica is named after Hermes Trismegistus, the oriental sage to whom astrological, alchemical, magical, medical, philosophical and religious works were attributed. Not only does the library collect Hermetic works and works belonging to the Hermetic tradition, its own publishing house In de Pelikaan also made it a policy to bring out editions of the major philosophical-Hermetic works in Dutch, with expert and insightful commentaries by two renowned Dutch scholars of Gnosis in Antiquity, Gilles Quispel and Roelof van den Broek. Other works dealing with Hermes Trismegistus brought out by In de Pelikaan are catalogues of exhibitions held in Amsterdam, Florence and Venice respectively; these are thorough studies of written and printed sources commissioned by the BPH.

The Corpus Hermeticum is included in an edition of 1503 in the exhibition “Master of Change: Images of Hermes Trismegistus” which opened on January 6th 2015. This edition also has the preface by translator Marsilio Ficino recounting the ‘genealogy of Hermes’. The Asclepius is on display in an ‘omnibus’ edition of 1505 which also contains the Corpus Hermeticum and the Crater Hermetis by the exuberant Hermetist Italian Ludovico Lazzarelli.

Hermetische Geschriften by Gilles Quispel and Roelof van den Broek. First print in 2016 (Dutch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corpus Hermeticum by Gilles Quispel and Roelof van den Broek. First print in 1990 (Dutch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asclepius by Gilles Quispel. 1996 (Dutch)

OUT OF PRINT, REPRINT BEING CONSIDERED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hermes Trismegistus. Inleiding, Teksten, Commentaren by Roelof Van den Broek. 2006 (Dutch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hermes Trismegistus.Pater philosophorum. Tekstgeschiedenis van het Corpus Hermeticum by Frank van Lamoen. 1990 (Dutch)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Ermete Trismegisto. Marsilio Ficino and the return of Hermes Trismegistus. 1999 (English and Italian)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Magia, alchimia, scienza dal ‘400 al ‘700. L’influsso di Ermete Trismegisto/Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries by Carlos Gilly et al. 2002 (English and Italian)