Lot 313: SCIENCE PSELLUS, MICHAEL, attributed to. De operatione daemonum dialogus. 1615

PSELLUS, MICHAEL, attributed to. De operatione daemonum dialogus. Greek text with Latin translation by Pierre Morel and notes by Gilbert Gaulmin. [16], 153, [7] pages. Small 8vo, contemporary vellum; contents toned, dampstaining in upper inner corner of opening leaves. Signature of the art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-96). Paris: Hieronymus Drouart, 1615

first edition of the original greek text of a treatise on demonology ascribed to the 11th-century Byzantine philosopher Psellus (1018-78). Morel''s translation was first published in 1577; an earlier Latin version by Marsilio Ficino appeared in the 1497 edition of Iamblichus, De mysteriis Aegyptorum. DSB XI, 182-86; Hoffmann III, 303; Sarton I, 750.