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

Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi MDXXXVI. Translated by Christallin in 1710. Holograph transcript by Albert Poisson [1868-1894], with notes. The original title was 'Prognosticatio ad vigesimum quartum annum duratura... ad illustrissimum ac potentissimum principem Ferdinandum Romanorum Regem semper Augustum...' Produced in Paris.

c. 1890

1 volume 50 ll. + 42 bl. ll. 4to. 22 × 17 cm. Original cloth binding.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 452 (part).

Cristallin was Librarian to Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon [1692-1740]. He appears to have made a revised version of his translation in 1712, which is entered as No. 799 in Dorbon's Catalogue of the Library of Occult Sciences belonging to Stanislas de Guaita. Neither version appears to have been printed. The 32 symbolic figures of the original work are not included, but are carefully described and explained by the translator.

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).

From the library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark label 'L.H.60'.