Mystery text :-) 1 by irisalbus Hello everyone, This time a mystery text, instead of a mystery chart ? sorry for the poor pun :-) As Deb was kind enough to post it in the news sections and Mark in the mundane one, I got inspired by a recent discussion on the forum and retyped William Lilly's Supernatural Sights and Apparitions and posted it online http://astrologyanswers.wordpress.com/2 ... paritions/ ? but still have some doubts about it. I would like to ask those forum members interested in the subject to take a look at the text and give me a hand resolving the issues ? not only those I mention but others I eventually could not even notice. Thanks in advance. The dubious expressions are still in square brackets in the online form, the dots in the middle of a word are spaces of illegible/supposed letters. 1) page 4, last sentence: "It seemed to be [soll.d] / [sell.d] and firm?." ? could it be "sollid" (the first vocal is a round-backed one. like "o" or "e") in the original and thus "solid" in the modern form? 2) page 7, the monogram M.L., and the sidenote, marked by an * : "Merline is almost inclined to believe some that wore a crown were dying at time of this strange light, or in some jeopardy of losing their scepter. A wise people inclining to great indiscretion if not their undoing" ? the first sentence is more clear, while the second is incomprehensible for me, although the words written in the sidenote were apparently readable. 3) The most difficult piece: on page 8, the sidenote to the chart of "Conjunction of Jupiter & Mars" that seems to read: LUCULO JOVIS . . . . . M. D. MARTIS i. o. M. D. (N.B. Mars and Jupiter are at Taurus 28?17', in the 11th House (and 11th sign)) Thanks for everyone, Iris Quote Sun Mar 16, 2014 11:09 am
2 by james_m hi iris, thanks again for doing what you did.. i read over the pdf saturday night.. i found it very hard to glean anything of value from it.. perhaps mark or deb will find a chance to read it and get back to you on this. thanks again for doing this.. i hope someone does it with his more popular writing of christian astrology too. james Quote Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:33 pm
3 by irisalbus Hello James, someone has already retyped Christian Astrology, I think her name is Dorothy J. Kovach and you can find the downloadable volumes here: http://www.worldastrology.net/ebooks http://www.occult-underground.com/lilly.html Iris Quote Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:13 pm
4 by james_m thanks iris! i am now trying to figure out why i know that name d. kovach.. Quote Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:47 pm
5 by Tom There have been several retypes of CA. Deb retyped Book III and annotated it. My first retype was done by Carol Wiggers of JustUs & Associates Publishing. She had some help I'm sure and it may have been Sue Ward and perhaps others. I don't recall. I don't know if this is still available, but it had an index that is invaluable. Dave Roell has a two volume set at astroamerica.com. There are also some freebies if you look around the web. The best ones, Wiggers, Roell etc follow the pagination of the original. This enables astrologers with various editions to communicate with each other more efficiently. I don't think the free ones on the web did that. Reading the old typesetting is difficult at best and following the older English isn't easy either. I know I started retyping a facsimile of Lilly's Prophetical Merlin and gave it up. I kept getting headaches. I'm not much of a typist either, so I appreciate how much work goes into these things. They're worth buying. Quote Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:38 pm