Atalanta fugiens, hoc est, emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica : accomodata partim oculis & intellectui, figuris cupro incisi, adiectisque sententiis, epigrammatis & notis, partim auribus & recreationi animi plus minus 50 rugis musicalibus trium vocum, quarum duae ad unam simplicem melodiam distichis canendis peraptam, correspondeant, non absq; singulari jucundiatate videnda, legenda, meditanda, intelligenda, dijudicanda, canenda & audienda

Alternate Title:

Emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica

Name:

Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1618

Language:

Latin

Publisher:

Extypographia Hieronymi Galleri, Sumptibus Joh. Theodori de Bry

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy; Canons, fugues, etc. (Voices) -- Early works to 1800; Canons, fugues, etc. (Chorus) -- Early works to 1800; Canons, fugues, etc. (Voices); Part songs, Latin -- Early works to 1800; Emblems -- Early works to 1800; Emblems; Part songs, Latin

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

211 pages, 5 unnumbered pages (last leaf blank) : 50 illustrations, music; 20 cm (4to)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Discursi and songs in Latin; emblems and epigrams in German and Latin.; Title within engraved border.; Later published without music in 1687 under title: "Secretioris naturae secretorum scrutinium chymicum."; Errata: p. [2-3].; Includes index.; P. 11 is blank; variants have a portrait of Maier on this page. --Cf. Duveen.; Pages 79, 87, 118, 136, 143, 171, 200, and 207 misnumbered as: p.78, 67, 18, 126, 133, 155, 184, and 107.; Imperfect: Smith copy wanting p.17-18, 29-30, 89-90, 101-102, 129-130, 141-142, 145-146, 161-162. Title page and "Epigramma authoris" wanting; replaced with photocopy.; Smith copy has Maier portrait on p. 11.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, E.F. Smith Collection, 540.1 M293.2 1618

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)