Pantaleon (pseud.)

Deux traitez nouveau sur la Philosophie naturelle, contenant Le tombeau de Semiramis nouvellement ouvert aux Sages, et La réfutation de l'Anonyme Pantaleon soy disant Disciple d'Hermès. Illustrated by 5 pen-drawn symbolic alchemical figures in red, blue, and black. Headings in red, text within a double rule. Written in imitation type-script, with footnotes in a microscopic hand, and some marginal notes by Vital Chaussegros [1769- ]. Produced in Paris.

1806

1 volume 3 ll. + 39 pp. + 2 ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 121/2 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1935.

The last 2 ll. contain the t.p. and first leaf only of 'La Clavicule de la Science des Sages, écrite par un Habitant du Nord... L'an MDCCXXXII. à Amsterdam. P. Mortier. MDCCLI' [cf. Ferguson, op. cit. Vol.. I, p. 163. Caillet No. 2392. Quérard. 'Supercheries'. No. 2983].

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).