Sendivogius, Michael (1566-1646) (& others)

Cosmopolite ou nouvelle lumière de la phisique naturelle: traictant de la constitution généralle des élémens simples et des composés: traduict du latin d'un Aucteur incertain. With three other short alchemical works by various Authors, etc. Illustrated with rough pen drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc., one of which on fol. 30 shows a full page symbolic figure. The other tracts in the volume are: (2) Artephius. Pratique des trois oeuvres philosophiques, assavoir minéralle, végétalle et animale selon la clef de la grande sapience d'Artephius. (ff. 21-31). (3) Rouillac (P.). Bref traicté du Grand Oeuvre. (ff. 32-43). (4) Paracelsus. Extraict du Manuel...de la préparation de la Pierre. (ff. 44, 45).

c. 1625

1 volume 3 ll. (first 2 bl.). + 47 ff. + 2 bl. ll. 8vo. 201/2 x 14 cm. Original vellum binding; with leather ties, damaged.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1908.

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).

According to Caillet, the first French translation of the work by Sendivogius was published 1609.