Collection of late antique religio-philosophical texts
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Corpus Hermeticum: first Latin edition, by Marsilio Ficino, 1471, at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam.
The Corpus Hermeticum is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.[1] The treatises were originally written between c. 100 and c. 300 CE,[2] but the collection as known today was first compiled by medieval Byzantine editors. It was translated into Latin in the 15th century by the Italian humanist scholars Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) and Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447–1500).[3]
Although the Latin word corpus is usually reserved for the entire body of extant writings related to some author or subject, the Corpus Hermeticum contains only a very small selection of extant Hermetic texts (texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, commonly known as Hermetica). Its individual treatises were quoted by many authors from the second and third centuries on, but the compilation as such is first attested only in the writings of the Byzantine philosopher Michael Psellus (c. 1017–1078).[4]
Following their translation into Latin by Ficino and Lazzarelli, the Corpus Hermeticum greatly influenced the Western esoteric tradition. It was especially considered to be important during the Renaissance and the Reformation, in which Hermeticism would often function as a type of intermediate position between Christianity and paganism.[5] Hermes' perceived antiquity ensured that any writing attributed to him would take an important place in Ficino's doctrine of the prisca theologia ('ancient theology'), which affirms that a single, true theology exists that is present in all religions and that was given by God to humankind in the distant, primeval past.[6]
^A survey of the literary and archaeological evidence for the background of Hermes Trismegistus in the Greek Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth is found in Bull 2018, pp. 33–96.
^Copenhaver 1992, p. xliv; Bull 2018, p. 32. Earlier dates have been suggested, most notably by the modern historians Flinders Petrie (500–200 BCE) and Bruno H. Stricker (c. 300 BCE), but these suggestions have been rejected by most other scholars (see Bull 2018, p. 6, note 23)
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translation), until a compilation of Greek Hermetic treatises known as the CorpusHermeticum was translated into Latin by the Renaissance scholars Marsilio Ficino...
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2002. Siena 2005. Copenhaver, Brian P. (1995). Hermetica: the Greek CorpusHermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English translation, with notes and...
Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam are books on the Gnosis and the CorpusHermeticum as published in Florence in 1471. The University of Wisconsin–Madison...
reality the Latin version of the Picatrix is as indispensable as the CorpusHermeticum or the writings of Albumasar for understanding a conspicuous part...
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followed. In the late 15th century, Marsilio Ficino translated the CorpusHermeticum and the works of Plato into Latin. These were previously unavailable...
of texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus appeared, including the CorpusHermeticum, Asclepius, and The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth. Some still...
uncertain. A sign series a-ta-no-dju-wa-ja appears in the still undeciphered corpus of Linear A tablets, written in the unclassified Minoan language. This could...
recognized or not." He traces the term back to Philo, Irenaeus, and the CorpusHermeticum, which associate archetypes with divinity and the creation of the...
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which oscillates between hopeful confidence and reasonable doubt. The CorpusHermeticum is a piece of Egyptian-Greek wisdom literature in the form of a dialogue...
ancient testimonies. By comparing the vocabulary used with that of the CorpusHermeticum (which had been proven by Isaac Casaubon in 1614 to date only from...
Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the CorpusHermeticum and a partial translation/alteration of Plato's Republic. These codices...
author of a large number of works in Arabic, often called the Jabirian corpus. The c. 215 treatises that survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry...
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Himself a follower of hermetism, Lazzarelli also translated the CorpusHermeticum, a translation which follows and enlarges the hermetic texts previously...
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