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

Aurore australe de Théophraste A[u]réole Paracelse Archydoxes magiques contenans l'Art de la Chryzopée. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. Written in French, German, and Latin by the same hand throughout, this MS. contains alchemical, chemical and iatro-chemical receipts and extracts from the works of Paracelsus and his followers. The latest dated receipt, 1748, is found on p. 697 of Vol. I: the 104 ll. at the end of Vol. II contain a copious index.

mid-18th century

2 volumes 2 vols. 1 l. + 943 pp. + 1 bl. l., 1 l. + 526 pp. + 5 bl. ll. + 104 ll. 8vo. 16 × 161/2 cm. Original olive gilt-stamped morocco binding.

Purchased 1936.

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).

Pasted inside the upper cover of Vol. I is the armorial book-plate of Nicolas Le Camus, who was Président de la Cour des Aides, and who died in 1767. Below this is the armorial book-plate in gold on sable of Stanislas de Guaita [1860-1897]. On the verso of the fly-leaf to this volume is an inscription by him, giving a short account of the work headed 'Ex libris Kabbalisticis Stanislai de Guaita'. This MS. is entered as No. 1952 in Dorbon's Catalogue of the De Guaita Library.