Original Sources
Scans of several prints of the text can be found online. From them emerge three main editions of the text: an original edition, an expanded edition, and a simplified edition.
These are print and reprints of the original edition, with only minor tweaks between each other.
This edition is greatly expanded, including a first Ubi Ingenium Excolendum section as well as a De Conciliatione Animorum final section; these are most likely other booklets touching on similar topics that have been added for padding. It also adds several aphorisms (Peregrinari, etc.) in the Actiones Humanae Civiles section.
This later edition drops the padding sections added at the beginning and end (going back to a format similar to the original) but keeps the additional aphorisms in Actiones Humanae Civiles.
Editions of the book follow this structure:
Typographus Lectoria preface from the printer1Ubi Ingenium Excolendum2 (only in theexpandededition)De Ratione StudiorumDe Studio StudiorumDe Religione Hominis PoliticiMores InterniMores ExterniMores cum Aequalibus et MinoribusDe Vita Conditione EligendaElecta Conditione, Qui ad Officium AdspirandumRatio in Officio Suo Se GerendiRatio Majorem Dignitatem ConsequendiDe Opibus et Divitiis AcquirendisQuid in Assequendis Divitiis Observandum?De Divitiis Magis Magisque AugendisRatio Odiis et Calumniis Inferioris SuccurrendiGratiam Principis Aucupandi RatioSi Major Dignitas Sit Delegata, Quid Tum Facto Opus?
Fundamentum3 fundamental principles guiding the textNosce Te IpsumNosce Alios
Actiones Humanae Civilesa series of aphorismsGratiam Sibi ComparareNosce Quis Sit Amicus AlicujusAestimationem et Famam Sibi ComparareTempus ad Negotia AugereGravitatem AcquirereLegere, ScribereDonare, MunerariPetereMonereNon FalliSanitatem ConservareInvidiam VitareRescire SecretaNoscere Intentionem Dictionis AlienaeOffensam VitareAnimare ad Aliquid FaciendumPrudentiam AcquirereCaute AgereHospitem Ingratum ExpedireConversari cum AliisJocariInsidias EluderePecuniam Acquirere, RetinereHonorem Obtinere, ConferrePetitioni RespondereAffectus Quosvis AssumereConvivariDamna VitareAgere Novum QuidStipulationem Non PerdereErrorem TegereOdium Malis ConflareAmicitiam SolvereLaudare AliosNe Se Alter ab Officio ExcusetIram TenereFugerePunire, CorrigereSeditionem ComponereLaudes Proprias Audire, DicerePacem Internam HabereOblocutiones ContemnereDexteritatem in Agendo AcquirereSuspicionem AvertereMalos Subvertere, DeponerePeregrinari(absent from theoriginaledition)Vana Non Appetere(absent from theoriginaledition)Arguere, Emendare(absent from theoriginaledition)Affectus Simulare(absent from theoriginaledition)Mutuum Cave(absent from theoriginaledition)Veritatem Assequi(absent from theoriginaledition)AccusareAccusatum EsseProvincias AdireLibros Speculativos Legere
Axiomataa list of axioms summarizing the textOperis Compendiuma list of principles summarizing the textSimula, DissimulaNulli CredeOmnia LaudaVide Quid Agas
De Conciliatione Animorum4 (only in theexpandededition)Caput ICaput IICaput IIICaput IVEpilogus5
Index
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This might be the only place where the actual author addresses us in their own voice. Note that the
expandededition includes a paragraph mentioning the inclusion of Exercitatio de Conciliatione Animorum but nothing on Ubi Ingenium Excolendum. ↩︎ -
This is likely another booklet added as padding, but I could not locate an independent source for this text, and its addition is not mentioned in the introduction. ↩︎
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A header there lets us know that this is the actual beginning of the text. ↩︎
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This is the text of Exercitatio de Conciliatione Animorum by Samuel von Pufendorf and Johann Burckard de Lewenburg, likely added as somewhat relevant padding. ↩︎
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This is the introduction of the text in other editions of Exercitatio de Conciliatione Animorum. ↩︎
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