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Alberti, Leon Battista Intercoenale: convelata 1441-1443 *L 26

Published only in 1965 Alcune intercenali inedite ed. E. Garin, Florence: 1965

Anon Compost et Calendrier des Bergiers N.P., 1491

degli Agli, Antonio Explanatio Symbolorum Pythagore after 1465 *L 51

Bartoli, Daniello De simboli Bologna: Recaldini, 1686

Another edition Venice: Tramontin, 1689

Bartoli, Cosimo Ragionamenti accademici Venice: Senese, 1567

Berni, Francesco Moralitas Arcana ex Pythagorae Ferrara: Gilii, 1669

Beroaldo, Filippo, the Elder Symbola Pythagore Paris: Barbier, 1507 *L 59

Further editions in 1509, 1510, 1534. Another edition previously in 1503. A french edition, Explication Morale des Symbole de Pythagore in 1520.

Bocchi, Achille Symbolicarum Quaestionum Bonionae: 1555

Another edition Bologna: Bononiensis, 1574.

Brunello, Pomponio Symbola Pythagorae 1597

First edition

Budé, Guillaume Commentarii linguae graecae Paris: Badius, 1529

Camden, William Remaines Concerning Britaine London: Waterstone, 1629

Caussin, Nicolas (1583-1651) Electorum symbolorum et Parabolarum historicarum syntagmata Paris: 1618 *L173

Corrozet, Giles Le Tableau de Cebès Paris: Corrozet, 1543

Dinet, M.P. Cinq Livres des Hieroglyphes Paris: Hugueville, 1614

Estienne, Henri, Sieur des Fosses L’art de faire les Devises [Chapter II] Paris: Jean Pâlé, 1645 

Ficino, Marsiglio Symbole Pythagore 1497

-------------------------Commentariolus in Symbola Ficinum ms Vat. lat 5953 * L 49

Published in Supplementum Ficinianum ed. Kristeller 1937.

Fraunce, Ambraham Symbole Pythagore N.P., 1497

Gambart La Vie Symbolique du Bienheureux Françous de Sales N.P, 1664

Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio Aenigmata [182-189] Basle: Oporinus, 1551 *L 29

Granada, Luis de Introduction del Symbolo de la Fe Bercelona: Hubert Gotard, 1589

Holstein, Lucas Demophili, Democratis et Secundi..sententiae morales Rome: 1638 *L 34

Kircher, Athanasius Ars Magna Sciendi Amsterdam: Weyerstraet, 1669

Kircher's elaboration and adaptation of the "Combinatoric Art" of Ramon Lull, the thirteenth-century Majorcan philosopher.

Lull, Raymond Raimundi Lullii maioricani philosophi sui temoris doctissimi... Basle: Conrad Waldkirch, 1600

Second edition. First edition 1572

---------------------------La Clavicule, ou la Science de Raymond Lulle Paris: 1646

Another edition 1647.

Masen, Jacob Speculum Imaginum Cologne: Kinckius, 1650

Subtitled ‘exhibiting Symbols, Emblems, Hieroglyphs, Aenigmas&rsquo.; 3rd edition, Cologne: Kinckius, 1681

Politian Lamia 1492 *L 54

Raimundus, de Sabunde Theologia naturalis sive liber creaturarum Strassburg: Martin Flach, 21 Jan., 1496

Second edition, the first printed at Strasbourg.

Ricciardi, Antonio Commentaria Symbolica Venice: Franceso de Franceschi, 1591

2000 pages, largest Renaissance dictionary of symbols.

de Sabunde, Raymundi Theologia Naturalis Venice: Zileti, 1581

van der Sandt, Maximilian Theologiae Symbolicae Originatio 1626 *L 201

Tesauro, Emanuele Il Cannochiale Aristotelico Venice: Curti, 1678

Another edition, Venice: Benedetto Milocho, 1682.

Torasini, Jacobo Filippo De Tesseris Hospitalitatis Amsterdam: Frisii, 1670

The Tessera Hospitalitates were tokens broken and kept by two friends as evidence of their friendship. The book covers every aspect of hospitality.

Tory, Geoffroy Champfleury Paris: Tory & Gourmont, 1529

The famous book on the symbolism of the letters of the alphabet.

Vives, Joan Lluis Satellitiu, Animi, sive, Symbola Lyons: Beringus, 1544 *L 117

Zehner, Joachim Fragmenta Pythagorae Lipsius 1603 *L 34