[Geber. Incipit suma perfecti magisterii Gebrii Reg…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 49
  • Dates of Creation
    • 15--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • La. 8vo. 144 folios. 22.2x15.2 cm. Bound in oak boards and calf back

Scope and Content

Geber. Incipit suma perfecti magisterii Gebrii Regis sup labido phyam... [In Latin]. XVIth century.
[Title on f1]: 'Summa perfecti magisterii Gebrii Regii super lapide phylosophorum editus anno domini 1350.'
1. f3 Incipit Summa perfecti magisterii Gebrii.
[A number of pen drawings of furnaces and alchemical apparatus appear in the text.]
[See Jabir ibn Haiyan, Summa perfectionis magisterii, Venetiis, 1475.]
2. f97 Liber de investigatione perfectionis magisterii. Geber.
3. f108 Incipit prologus libri de septuaginta. Est secretorum liber septuaginta.
4. f134 Incipit Opus Magni magistri Johannis de Rupescissa.
Begins: 'Consyderavi tribulationes electorum...'
[At end f143]: 'Explicit libri huius magisterii magister Johanis de Rupescissa ... anno dom 1350 die 4 octobr.'
[Johannes de Rupescissa, Liber Lucis. See Singer, No. 293. Printed in Theatrum Chemicum, III, p. 284-191.]

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