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

Le Discours sur l'Alchimie. Traité des Definitions, des Passages et Mots obscurs dans les Écrits de Paracelse by Gerardus Dorn. Holograph MS. by Albert Poisson [1868-1894]. Produced in Paris.

c. 1890

1 volume 140 ll. (first 2 & last 4 bl.). 4to. 191/2 × 15 cm. Original cloth binding. Written mostly on the versos or rectos only in a ruled note-book.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 485 (part).

The first work is a translation of the third part of the 'Paragranum' (cf. Sudhoff I, 166) first published in 1565. There was a French translation, found in 'Les XIV livres des Paragraphes, Paris, H. du Mesnil, 1631' (ibid. I. 366). The second part is probably a translation of the 'Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi' by Gerardus Dorn, at Frankfort in 1583 (Sudhoff I, 198).

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 lable 'L.H.118'.