#i think Heywood was just parroting Pseudo-Dionysius anyway

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The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells: Their Names, Orders and Offices by Thomas Heywood

Some angel illustrations:

Previous owner's notes:

Some of the "arguments" dedicated to the spheres of angels and their chiefs:

Some lines dedicated to Lucifer:

Some of it Transcribed: Of the Rebellious, Lucifer is prime Captain and King ; who in the first of Time, From out the feuerall Classes had selected Legions of Angels, with the pride infected, Against Jehovah; and with expedition Hurled them with himself headlong to perdition. And as in his Creation he was fram'd More glorious far than others before-nam'd; More goodly featur'd, beautiful, and bright, And therefore, his name deriv'd from Light

......... I said before that I got to work with an original copy of this book a while ago, and apart from being a lot of fun to read, it's really beautiful! It was dedicated to the Queen Henrietta, and it doesn't seem like Heywood had any interest in angels outside of this massive book, so I guess he was commissioned to write this. Either way, it's really great! There are some full scans of it online, if anyone would like to flip through it too :)

#i can be really touchy about hierarchy stuff obviously #but this was very good #i think Heywood was just parroting Pseudo-Dionysius anyway #but he produced some really beautiful lines #i would have posted way more but wow this post is long #also i picked out the Lucifer part in specific because I assume yall would be interested in it #anyway #pls enjoy my photodump! #mine #angels #angelology #lucifer #manuscripts #1630s #thomas heywood