Compendium libri cabalistico-chymici

COMPENDIUM libri cabalistico-chymici Artephius seu Aesch Mezareph dicti de Lapide Philosophorum. With two short commentaries: in Latin. Followed by two other alchemical tracts in German, and extracts, also in German, from Johann Schroeder's 'Artzney-Schatz der Medicin'. The fourth work is illustrated with pen-drawings of sigils.

c. 1725

1 volume 2 ll. first bl.. + 227 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 19 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased at Hamburg (Maltzahn Sale) 18/10/1930, Lot 682.

In Kopp 'Die Alchemie', 1886, Vol. II, pp. 232-234 there is a discussion of the works contained in this MS., and their connection with Knörr von Rosenroth's 'Kabbala denudata', 1677-84. It is also mentioned in Waite's 'Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah', 1902, pp. 308-313. Hebrew symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.

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).