Tractatus de alchemia

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 263
  • Dates of Creation
    • 14--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • Sm. 4to. 57 folios, on vellum. 17.4x13.3 cm. Bound in limp vellum. In morocco covered box, lettered and tooled, by E. Riley, 1969

Scope and Content

Tractatus de alchemia. [In Latin]. XVth century.
1. f1-37 Mineralia Alberti.
[Imperfect breaks off at foot of f 40v. See Albertus Magnus 'Opera', edited Borgnet, v. 1-103. ]
2. f37v-38 Dubium apud multos esse solet... saluatur enim virtus ipsorum. Explicit liber de commixcione elementorum Fratris Thome de Aquino. [See 'Opera', xvi (1869), 353.]
3. f38v-40v, and f57v [A]d prognosticandum diuersam aeris disposicionem futuram...
[Grosseteste [Sacrobosco], 'De impressionibus aeris'.]
4. f41-57r Quoniam quidem ars alchemica quamplures viros doctilogos videntibus oculis excauit...
5. f57v [Fragment of treatise on astronomy. Circular cosmos diagram divided into 12 sectors corresponding to the zodiacal signs, with seven concentric circles ascribed to the planets. At end: 'Explicit liber prognosticatones astronomices'.

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