Thesaurus thesaurorum

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

We’ll be closed on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 July, reopening as usual on Wednesday 8 July.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

THESAURUS thesaurorum et secretum secretissimum in quo omnia Mundi arcana latent, quodque Deus per ineffabilem suam misericordiam homini vili et abjecto peccatorique maximo revelavit. Lapidis Philosophorum verus processus. Illustrated with numerous symbolic alchemical water-colour drawings, and figures of chemical and alchemical apparatus: a circular symbolic figure on p. 83 is by a different and later hand. The text and the legends to the illustrations are in Latin, but there are a few additions in verse in German. The title given above is that found on p. 7 at the beginning of the text.
Transcription of cipher on p. 1:
Questo Process appartiene a me, Sebastiano
Bologna
Di Schio _ HB

Translation of cipher on p. 1:
This process belongs to me, Sebastiano
Bologna
From Schio _ HB" [the last letters could be numbers, therefore "HB" is 82, 1782?]

Transcribed from p. 1  'S.N.D.B.L.E./..../Philoponus P...A...B...' Below the title to the second work (p. 93) is written 'Mei Magistri colendissimi piae memoriae'.

Thesaurus thesaurorum

Licence and re-use

Contents