Lullius, Raymundus, (1235?-1315)(& others)

Epistola accurtacionis ad Rupertum [sic] regem. [Incomplete] Epistola ad Regem Angliac. (In German) Florianus. Diadema philosophorum et secretum secretorum. Fol. 1 Episttola Raymundi ad Rupertum Regem/Ierusalem et Sicilie. Item ego Raymundus de Insula/maior[ic]a. In temporibus preteritis... 2 et suauius et nobilius opus est vegetabilium que [added: 'finis scripti/de accurtatione']. 3 Epistola Raymundi Lulii [sic] ad Regem Angliae.//Recipe guten rotten wein der starch sey... 3v ... verwandit es dy in 4 Alchemical symbols: Latin and German. 4v Ritmus ex quodam vetusto [libello]: in German. 5 tractatus magistri Floriani philosophi/Diadema philosophorum et sercrata [sic] secretorum.//Ille philosophus autem instructus in universalibus ab Aristotele/de transmutationibus... 10v (End)... nobile producit scilicet aurum. 11 Opus caldcorum.//Recipe acetum album. (End)... habes lunam in magnam quanitatem.

Early 16th Century

1 volume 11 ll. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Modern boards covered by a folio sheet from an early printed Chronicle. Margins cropped in binding.

Purchased 1934.

The first work seems to be a version of the 'Accurttatio' of the 'Lullian Collection', described by Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. IV, Ch. 1, and the second of the 'Elucidaio'. the work of Florianus is mentioned by Thorndike op. cit., Vol. IV, p. 339: he gives the name as 'Floranus', and attributes the tract o Winandus de Ruffo Clipeo.

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).