Catalogue · Texts & Manuscripts
Texts & manuscripts · Liber XXX
The texts of Symbols
5 works, arranged by date — each dated, summarised and brought up to date with current editions and scholarship. Complete texts are in the reading room.
Sigillum Dei Aemeth (Seal of God's Truth) Sigillum Dei Sigillum Aemeth Sigillum Emeth Seal of God Latin (diagram with Hebrew-derived divine names)Described in the Liber Iuratus attributed to Honorius of Thebes; later forms by John Dee · Earliest witnesses 14th century; Dee's version 1582; Kircher 1652–1654- Semamphoras Table (Berengar Ganell) Tabula Semamphoras Semiphoras Schemhamphoras table Latin, with Latin, Greek, Hebrew and 'Chaldean' alphabetsFrom Berengar Ganell's Summa Sacrae Magicae (1346); web study by Joseph H. Peterson · 1346 (Summa); web edition 2024
The Hieroglyphic Monad Monas Hieroglyphica LatinJohn Dee (1527–1608) · Antwerp, 1564
The Goddess: Her Names and Symbols (Kircher’s Isis) Isidis magnae deorum matris Apuleiana descriptio LatinAthanasius Kircher SJ (1602–1680), in Oedipus Aegyptiacus · Rome, 1652–1654
Zoroaster’s Egg Ovum Zoroastraeum LatinAthanasius Kircher SJ (1602–1680), in Oedipus Aegyptiacus · Rome, 1652–1654