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NUMEROLOGY. BONGO (BUNGI), PIETRO (PETRI). Numerorum mysteria ex abditis plurimarum disciplinarum fontibus hausta: oipus maximarum rerum doctrina, & copia refertum. In quo mirus imprima, idémq, perpetuus arithmethicae Pythagoricae cum divina paginae numeris consensus, multiplici ratione probtur. Postrema hac editione ab auctore ipso copioso indice, & ingenti appendice auctum... Lutetiae Parisiorum (Paris, apud Reginaldum Chaudiere) 1618.

4:o (223x178 mm.). (92), 1-676, (2), 1-90, (126) pp. Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams.
Contemporary vellum, partly soiled, darkened spine with manuscript title, speckled edges. Inkstain on outer edge. Minor spotting. Signatur on title "Ex libris Johan Olivekrans", on first endpaper Bornius, on inside of upper cover J. Hallenberg. Bookplate of Sten Kristiansson.

Johan Olivecrantz (1633-1707), son of archbishop Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, ambassador, govenor over the dominons of queen Christinas, see CarlanderII:123-124.
Jonas Hallenberg (1748-1834), custodian of National monuments 1803, see Carlander II:760-761.

Originally published in 1585, reprinted several times before the presernt edition. Bongo attempted to reconcile Pythagorean and Christian doctrines and to separate the study of numbers from the more scientific discipline of mathematics.
See Dorbon-Ainé: Bibliotheca Esoterica, 543.

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2015-12-15