Compendium libri cabalistico-chymici
- Date:
- c. 1725
- Reference:
- MS.1763
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
COMPENDIUM libri cabalistico-chymici Artephius seu Aesch Mezareph dicti de Lapide Philosophorum. With two short commentaries: in Latin. Followed by two other alchemical tracts in German, and extracts, also in German, from Johann Schroeder's 'Artzney-Schatz der Medicin'. The fourth work is illustrated with pen-drawings of sigils.
Publication/Creation
c. 1725
Physical description
1 volume 2 ll. first bl.. + 227 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 19 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.
Acquisition note
Purchased at Hamburg (Maltzahn Sale) 18/10/1930, Lot 682.
Notes
In Kopp 'Die Alchemie', 1886, Vol. II, pp. 232-234 there is a discussion of the works contained in this MS., and their connection with Knörr von Rosenroth's 'Kabbala denudata', 1677-84. It is also mentioned in Waite's 'Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah', 1902, pp. 308-313.
Hebrew symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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Accession number
- 63341