Three books of occult philosophy / Written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim. Translated out of the Latin into the English by J.F[reake].
Three Books of Occult Philosophy is a 1651 London English translation by J. Freake of Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Latin treatise on magic, printed by R. W. for Gregory Moule for a readership of scholars and occult enthusiasts. Its plates show tables of angelic and planetary alphabet characters, drawn as rows of simple strokes, hooks and circles labelled with Hebrew letter names such as Aleph, Beth, Zade and Pe. A designer could take from them a repeating system of geometric glyphs with strong typographic rhythm, useful for symbolic or esoteric graphics.
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