Arnauld, Pierre

Trois traitez de la philosophie naturelle non encore imprimez. Sçavoir: Le secret livre du très ancien philosophe Artephius traitant de l'art occulte et transmutation metalique [sic]. Plus les figures hieroglifiques de Nicolas Flamel avec l'explication d'icelles par le dit Flamel. Ensemble le vray livre du docte Sinesius...sur le mesme sujet. Le tout traduit par P. Arnaud. MDCXII. Illustrated by eight small pen-drawing in red and black. This is a transcript of the work published in Paris in 1612.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 35 pp.+49 pp.+12 pp. 4to. 221/2 x 17 cm. Modern vellum covers. The first four leaves are defective, the first two with loss of text.

Purchased at Sotheby's 12/3/1914, Lot 24.

From the John Eliot Hodgkin Collection.

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).