Staricius, Johannes

The newly reformed warrioures treasure. That is, a Nature-knowing consideration upon and about the Vulcan: as also naturall-magicall preparation and fabrefaction of that warriour Achilles his armour in Greece. Out of which besides many secrets, is to be seen what belongeth chiefely for the warlike setting out of a warriour. Whereby also is discovered a false copie, which John Burkner, in the Authors name hath deceitfully published...Corrected by the Authour...Printed at Frankfort on Mayne by John Niclas Stoltzenberger at the expense of John Berner. 1624. Illustrated by a few rough pen drawings of military apparatus, etc. An extraordinary farrago of military, chemical and medical receipts, 'secrets' and 'experiments'.

c. 1650

1 volume 108 ff. 4to. 191/2 x 141/2 cm. Original quarter calf binding.

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 1914.

Haller calls the author 'Superstitiosus equorum medicus '[Bib. Med. Pract. II, p. 534].

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).

It was first published in Frankfort in 1618 under the title 'Neu reformirter Heldenschatz'. No record of an English translation has been traced.