2021-03-07

Quod est inferius, est sicut quod est superius.

Missed this when I last posted an update of the Mead Hermetica, but turns out that in 2018 Cambridge University Press published Hermetica II, represented as a continuation of Brian Copenhaver's 1992 (many reprints) translation of the Corpus Hermeticum and Asclepius.

This comprises annotated translations of the 29 Hermetic excerpts and fragments from the anthology of Stobæus that were in tom. iii & iv of Nock & Festugière's 1946-54 edition of the texts, as well as the "Vienna fragments" mentioned by Copenhaver, fragments of Hermetic texts from a papyrus at Oxford discovered in 1991 and multiple brief quotations and references by writers of late antiquity, as well as citations from early mediæval Arabic writers, and the famous Emerald Tablet.

Litwa, M, David: Hermetica II: the Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and an Introduction.  Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Unfortunately this has yet to see the kind of accessible paperback reprint that Copenhaver got; the print edition lists for over £70 new.

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