#celestial alphabet

[loynosca]

Images of pages included in The printer's grammar; or, Introduction to the art of printing: containing a concise history of the art, with the improvements in the practice of printing, for the last fifty years, by Charles Stower, 1808.

[echiromani]

From the Vatican Library, a depiction of the sons of Seth devising the “celestial alphabet,” whose letters are displayed in the frame above. (The lower frame reads: The sons of Seth inscribe the knowledge of celestial things on two columns.) This alphabet, probably of Medieval cabbalistic origin, but apparently related to ancient Samaritan, was purported to be the predecessor of classical Hebrew letters.

[hittuspitchusbear]

Without Me

The meaning of the word is Wurdah ïtah

[willow-elysian-blog]

~THE CELESTIAL ALPHABET~ (a.k.a. The Angelic Script) The Celestial Alphabet was created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 1500's. It was derived from the Greek and Hebrew alphabets and was created for communication with angels. Though it is still used for this purpose, many modern enthusiasts of esotericism and the occult use it for other purposes such as: enscribing secret text, crafting sigils, and writing spells. It is not to be confused with other esoteric alphabets such as Malachim, Enochian, Theban script, and Transitus Fluvii.

[asfaltics]

more hardly can we find, of some others

above, inside front cover (detail; 90ºcw; levels 30 1.00 255) below, unopened plates (detail; inverted; levels 20 1.00 240) M. I(Jacques). Gaffarel (1601-81 *). Curiosités inouyes, sur la scultpure talismanique des Persans. Horoscope des Patriaches. Et Lecture des Estoilles. (Unheard-of Curiosities concerning Talismanical Sculpture of the Persians, the Horoscope of the Patriarchs, and the Reading of the Stars) (1637) University of Lausanne copy, digitized February 27, 2008

More hardly can we find the Hebrew letters in the heavens, made out of the greater and lesser Stars, which put together do make up words... ex Thomas Brown (1605-82 *) — referring to Gaffarel — in Pseudodoxia Epidemica * or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. Third Edition, “with some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the end” (London 1658); Book 6, "Enquiries into vulgar and common errors," Chapter 14, "Of some others" : 286

The skin cover of the book, a kind of land/skyscape, which wayward reading brings one to Sarah Kay, her "Legible skins: Animals and the ethics of medieval reading," postmedieval : a journal of medieval cultural studies (2011) 2 : 13–32

all tagged celestial alphabet all tagged legibles all tagged night all tagged sky, skies  

[asfaltics]

and blue "ighest"

* (detail, reoriented, back cover) ex S(amuel) B(enoni) Beal. Plain Directions for Making and Fixing Paper Texts or Emblems, to decorate churches or rooms: with explanations of their significance. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged. London, 1868 Bodleian copy, digitized April 25, 2007 *

epigram from p 25 (in a chapter on lettering).  

[asfaltics]

The Owl. The Air Balloon. The Cat. The Printing Press.

* back cover, detail, rotated 90º The British Celestial Atlas ; being a complete guide to the attainment of a practical knowledge of the heavenly bodies: containing twelve royal quarto maps; or entire views of the starry heavens, as they appear to the naked eye: adapted for every night throughout the year: on which are carefully laid down, all the stars visible in the British Empire, from the first to the fourth magnitude; with the boundaries of the constellations accurately defined. Also, three moveable plates, and a plate of diagrams, to elucidate the motions of the earth and the celestial bodies: accompanied by a familiar treatise on astronomy. By G. Rubie, teacher of geography, the use of the globes, and navigation, Hastings. London, 1830 Bodleian copy, digitized May 23, 2006  

epigram from list of "modern constellations which are not universally adopted," southern hemisphere. p 11  

[blaqmercury]

Celestial alphabet from the Book of Raziel. 14th century.

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