Paracelsus (Bombastus ab Hohenheim) Aureolis Philippus Theophrastus, (1493-1541)

Collection of 8 short treatises by or ascribed to Paracelsus: translated into Dutch. Contents: (1) Apocalypsis Hermetis ab illustrissimo viro Aureolo Helvetio qui fuit Hermes secundus: dat is, Van de openbaring des verborgenen geests der Natuur (15 pp.). (Opera, ed. Huser, 1603, Vol. II, pp. 668-671.) (2) De lapide Philosophorum. Secretum magicum van drie gebenedyde magische steenen (pp. 1-50). (Ibid., pp. 671-682.) (3) De lumine Naturae (pp. 50-68). (Ibid., pp. 682-686.) (4) Van de elementische aarden (pp. 69, 70). (5) [Het boek des Wysheid, van den oorsprong der Adelaarsteens] (pp. 71-89). (Ibid., pp. 686-691.) (6) De tinctura Phisicorum contra Sophistas natos post diluvium (18 pp.). (Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 921-925.) (7) Thesaurus thesaurorum (8 pp.). (Ibid., pp. 934-936.) (8) Manuale de lapide philosophico medicinali (26 pp.). (Ibid., pp. 943-949).

c. 1825

1 volume 10 bl. ll. + 15 pp. + 89 pp. + 3 bl. ll. + 18 pp. + 26 pp. + 14 bl. ll. 4to. 25 × 19 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1927.

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).

In the second volume of the 'Bibliographia Paracelsica', pp. 180-182 there is an entry for a MS. copy of our No. 5 in the Leyden University Library: Codex Voss No. 17 (Sudhoff MSS. No. 67), in which the work is definitely assigned to Caspar Hartung.