De alchimia

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 90
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • 8vo. 125 folios. 17.2x10.8 cm. Bd. in vellum

Scope and Content

Various tracts on Alchemy, Theology, Logica Peripatetica, in Latin and English.
1. f1 [Notes in English.]
2. f2-3 Nota Metaphysica ex Schublero. [Latin.]
3. f4-5r De Alchimia, ex Prolegomenis Grataroli. [Latin.]
4. f5v-10r Chrysorrhoas: sive Dialogus de Arte Chymica huius Auctore Osiander Gratarolo videtur.
5. f10v-27r Dialogus cui nomen Lignum Vitae:Autore Johanne Brachoser. Lingua Italica ab ipso authore primum fixit: his in Latinam a Gratarolo conversus.
[See Gratarolo, Verae Alchimiae Artisque Metallicae, Basileae, 1561.]
6. f27v-125 [Theological tract in English.]
7. [Reversed at end of Manuscript] f125 Logica Peripatetica ex optimis quibusquam Aristotelicis intelligentibus viam Peripateticam insistentibus certis systematibus definitionibus divisionibus corollariis contenta. [Text in Latin with some notes in Greek.]

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