Et Hakerem Caelum Orientis et Prisci Mundi Triade.

BANG, THOMAS.

P. Morsing

Hanau

1657

FIRST EDITION. Additional engraved title by H.A. Greys featuring mystical iconographic motifs flanked by Biblical figures. Letterpress title in red and black, and on verso, two mystical roundels: a Tetragrammaton wordsquare and pentagram. Extensive use of Hebrew and “Angelic” script. With previous owner’s signature and notes on verso of title.

Orientalist Thomas Bang (1600-61) was a professor of Hebrew at the University of Copenhagen. This work is a study of languages and their origins - complying with the general belief of that time that their source was Hebrew. Additionally, there is a long section (pp. 16-96) devoted to the apocryphal Book of Enoch and its theories on superstition and demonology.