Fama fraternitatis, or, Discovery of the Brotherhood of the Praiseworthy Order of the Rosycrusian
Subtitle: together with the Confession or address of said fraternity written to all the learned and princes in Europe : also several responses and answers, respecting the Fama, of Herr Haselmeyer and other learned people : together with A discourse of the universal reformation of the whole world ...
By: translated by Woodbury Lowery ; revised and corrected by Charles Levi Woodbury and Benjamin Apthorp Gould.
Contributors: Lowery, Woodbury, 1853-1906.; Andreä, Johann Valentin, 1586-1654.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.
Published: 1873
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Rosicrucians.
Other titles: Confessio fraternitatis. English. 1873.; Fama fraternitatis.; Discovery of the Brotherhood of the Praiseworthy Order of the Rosycrusian.
Notes: Typescript.
The Fama fraternitatis is possibly by Johann Valentin Andreä. The Confessio fraternitatis, usually found published with it, may also be his. The 3rd item is a translation (from a German intermediate) of centuria prima, ragguaglio LXXVII (Generale riforma dell'universo dai sette savi della Grecia e da altri letterati pubblicata di ordine di Apollo) of Traiano Boccalini's De' ragguagli di Parnaso.
Translated from the 1615 ed. containing the same 3 works (Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn : Durch Johann Bringern in Verlegung Johann Berners). The title of that ed. is used as half title to the typescript: Fama fraternitatis, oder, Entdeckung der Bruderschafft des loeblichen Ordens des[s] Rosen Creutzes.
Translator's presentation inscription to Charles Levi Woodbury on half title.
Gift of Blair House, Mar. 31, 1989.