Sales catalogue: Glendining

Date:
16-17 October 1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/8/178
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Glendining. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (oA) Perfectum magisterum et gaudium-Lilium evulsum de Spinis super operatione lapidis philosophorum—Gratianus, Liber secundus qui Lilium dicitur, eleven Alchemical drawings, a very rare MS., curiously written’in the script of the 11th century, containing three treatises; 1.— Lilium evulsum de Spinis, an anonymous tract by a 14th century writer, dealing with the Philoso- pher’s Stone and its making; 2—Gratianus, Liber secundudque: Wilram Vdrcitur, a venus. short treatise “de leone viridit seu lapide philoso- phorum in multa quantitate; 3—Arnoldus de Villanova, perfectum magisterum, this is one of the most important alchemical treatises by this writer, in excellent preservation, with contempor- ary marginalia notes 5g De consideratione quintae essentiae, or Liber de famulatu philosophiae, in two books (the second entitled “ De generalibus remediis,” Raymundus Lullus, ares operativa cum medicinaliabus subtilibus et occultis, opus auri potabilis pro medicina corporis humani, Elias of Assisi, liber de compositione lapidis philosophorum, qui liber intilulatur, Vademéecuims srecépta varia, has latin manuscript, 15/l6th century, an interesting col- lection of alchemical; treatises, neatly written by an Italian seribe-of the sk enaissance,:theltract-by Roquetaillade was written during his imprison- ment,/he had the reputation of the Master of the Art of Alchemy, and boasted of a quintessence of which one part. could transmute 100 parts of mercury into gold or silver, interesting medical recipes are throughout this MS., and an whole sectiougser Gthem, 2atteahel tend) “tartexceliont preservation century in German, purely medical and forming a very, valuable codex never yer Gxamimicamor published, including Pseudo-Aristotle, Hippo- crates, Practica of Bartholomew Salerno, a enide to drugs of fifty pages, and .a regimen against the