Shelfmark
Ga.8.22(01)
Author
Title
Coelum philosophorum, seu Secreta naturae, Id est, quomodo non solum è vino, sed etiam ex omnibus metallis, fructibus, carne, ouis, radicibus, herbis, & aliis quam plurimis quinta essentia, siue aqua vitæ, ad conseruationem humani corporis debeat educi, liber tum medicis ac chirurgis tum pharmacopolis, imo & omnibus sanitatis retinendæ studiosis pernecessarius, ex variis authoribus, Ioa[n]ne de Rupescissa, Raymu[n]do, Lullio, Arnoldo de Villa noua, Albertoq[ue] Magno, à Philippo Vlstadio adiectis clarissimis figuris, collectus.
Varying form of title
Secreta naturae
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Væneunt apud Viuantium Gaultherot, in Via Iacobea, sub intersignio Sancti Martini., 1544.
Physical description
[8], 95 leaves : ill. ; 18 cm. (8vo.)
Note
With woodcut illustrations of alchemical equipment throughout.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Edition not known to Adams.
Note
Printed marginal annotations.
Provenance
Inscription on title-page: Thomas Williams, 1556. Possibly the physician of Merton appearing in Wood's Athenae Oxonienses. Other 16th century ownership inscriptions on title-page, obliterated.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: hunc accepi libru[m] ex dono Michaelis Brone.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on verso of title-page.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet border; blind stamped centrepiece of leaf ornaments forming a lozenge; blind tooled single fillet on board edges; slits for ties, now lost; blind tooled single fillet on spine, with panels of cross-hatching at head and tail; four raised bands; faded red sprinkled edges; two thumb index tabs.
Copy-specific note
Heavy annotation on final leaf of first work in volume, and in margins throughout.
Copy-specific note
One of two works in volume.
Subject
Alchemy Anthologies.
Subject
Alchemy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Chemistry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Johannes, approximately 1300 - approximately 1365 de Rupescissa,
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Arnaldus de Villanova,
Added entry--name
Albertus, 1193? - 1280 Magnus, Saint,
Added entry--name
Gaultherot, Vivant printer.
Added entry--place
France Paris
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46470