De transfiguratione metallorum et occulta, summaque antiquorum philosophorum medicina, libellus / Morieno Romano ... auctore ; accessit huic nunc primum Chrysorrhēmōn, sive De arte chymica, dialogus ; qui praeclarissimas huius scientiae actiones, rationi, ac naturalibus principiis consentaneas esse demonstrat ; impostorum vero & sycophantarum somnia & nugas retegit.

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Hanoviae ad Moenum : Apud Guilielmum Antonium, 1593.

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79 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8vo (16 cm)

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De transfiguratione translated from Arabic into Latin by Robert of Chester. Cf. MacPhail.
Chrysorrhēmōn has separate t.p., but pagination is continuous.
On both t.p.s, Chrysorrhēmōn is in Greek characters.
Signatures: A-E⁸.
Title vignettes; tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia.
Copy 1. Bound in late 19th century plain paper, parchment spine. Ownership stamp on front pastedown of Dr. Ernst Darmstaedter, no. 1030.

References note

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 413-414
MacPhail, I. Alchemy & the occult, 50
Wellcome cat. of printed books, I, 4458

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