xiv PREFACE. 



a preface, by Angelus Vergicius, at Paris, in quarto, in 

 1554. D. Franciscus Flussas republished the "Poem- 

 andres" in Greek and Latin, in quarto, at Bordeaux in 

 1574. Francis Patricius (Cardinal Patrizzi) reprinted the 

 works attributed to Hermes which are extant in Greek 

 (some of which, as already stated, we shall find are not 

 his) among his " Nova de Universis Philosophia " at Fer- 

 rara, in folio, in 1591; and again under a new title, "Nova 

 de Universis Philosophia libris quinquaginta comprehensa, 

 auctore Francisco Patritio," at Venice, in folio, in 1593, 

 Eobertus Meiettus being the printer. Gustave Parthey 

 has done a great service to early Christian literature by 

 publishing at Berlin, in 1854, an entirely new edition of 

 the "Poemandres" in the original Greek, from a MS. of 

 the end of the 13th century, No. 1220 in the National 

 Library at Paris ; others, Nos. 1297, 2007, 2518, of the 

 16th century, in the same library having, with 1220, been 

 collated by D. Hamm with the edition of Turnebus and 

 that numbered 2518, which had been written by the hand 

 of Angelus Vergicius at Venice. Parthey also consulted 

 another MS. of the 14th century, Plut. Ixxi., No. 33, in 

 quarto, in the Laurentian library at Florence, collated, at 

 the request of Parthey, by Francis de Furia with the 

 Turnebus edition. This publication of G. Parthey is 

 most carefully edited, and accompanied by a close and 

 admirable Latin translation of his own. In the preface 

 he promised an edition of the other remains of Hermes 

 to be found extracted in Stobseus and several of the 

 Fathers, which promise, it is to be lamented, he has not 

 yet performed. 



There exist several old French translations of the "Her- 

 maica:" one by G. de Preau, published at Paris in 1557; 

 " Two books of Hermes Trismegistus, one ' Of the Power 

 and Wisdom of God,' the other 'Of the Will of God;'" 

 another of the " Poemander," by Foye de Candalle, with a 

 comment, at Bordeaux, 1574; another, by G. Joly and 

 Hub, in folio, at Paris, in 1579, again printed in 1626. A 

 complete translation into modern French of all the works 



