Liber hic plane Divinus est

Liber hic plane Divinus est, claususque sigillis tribus, quem nemo aperire potest, nisi cui D.O.M. revelare voluerit: nec revelebit alicui, nisi coelibem sanctamque vitam duxerit simulque mentem acuerit. Contents: (1) Khalid ibn Jazid. Liber trium verborum. (ff. 1-6) (2) Pisanus (F. S.). Brevis libellus. (ff. 6v-25.) (3) Epistola...de prima operatione. (ff. 25v-27v.) (4) Hermes Trismegistus. Testamentum. (ff. 27v-28.) (5) Arisleus [or Aristeus]. Verba...ad filium suum. [In verse.] (ff. 28-30.) (6) Sibylla Erythraea. Septem versus. (ff. 31-34.) (7) Norton (T.). Dicta. (ff. 34-35.) (8) Dicta de lapide sophorum. (ff. 35-38.) (9) Lux in tenebris refulgens. (ff. 38-47.) (10) Philaletha (E.). Manuductio ad rubinum coeleste ex Martino Birrio (ff. 47v-52v.) (11) Instructio super lapide maximo. (ff. 52v-56v.) (12) Commendatio de pharmaco catholico. (ff. 56v-59.) (13) De menstruo universali omnium metallorum et mineralium. (ff. 59-81.) (14) Rupescissa (J. de). Canones universales ad extrahendam quintam essentiam. (ll. 1-19, 21-26.) (15) Lullius (R.). Arbor philosophicalis (ll. 19v-20.). Items 14-15 seem to be versions: (a) From the Pseudo-Lullian recension of Rupescissa's 'De consideratione quintae essentiae', and (b) An extract from the 'Tertia distinctio' also with the same pseudo-Lullian origin. (See Thorndike, 'History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. IV, pp. 38-42.) Produced in Rome.

1648

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). +81 ff. +27 ll. 8vo. 16 x 11 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1908.

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).