The generous gift will
enable the Ritman to digitize thousands of “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy,” reports
Thu-Huong Ha at Quartz, including the
Corpus Hermeticum (1472), “the source work on Hermetic wisdom”; Giordano Bruno’s
Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (1584); and “the first printed version of the tree of life (1516): A graphic representation of the sefirot, the 10 virtues of God according to the Kabbalah.”
