Paracelsus (Bombastus ab Hohenheim) (Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus) (1493-1541)

Bâle. 1563

1 volume 149 ll. 4to. 20 x 15 cm. Modern gilt stamped vellum binding. Tear, with loss of text in the fifth leaf from the end, corners and margins of the last 4 ll. slightly damaged: some damp-stains. Title-page in red and black, headings and underlinings in red.

Purchased 1908.

This MS. is apparently unpublished and unrecored. A Latin translation was printed by Perna of Bâle in 1563 (Sudhoff: 'Bibliogrphia Paracelsica' No. 54). The first German edition of this work appeared in the same year (Sudhoff No. 57), but the text is different. The work is dedicated to Cosimo de Medici, and is stated at the end of the 'Widmungsbrief', to be 'Ausz unnserem Studierstübl am 7 Tag Marcii, Anno Salutis. 1563 zu Basel'.

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).