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  Manuscripts, Rare books

  Le Petit Rosaire

  • Extract on Alchemy from the Roman de la Rose (la Table de maistre Jehan de Meun)

  • Circa 1600 – 1640

  This is a seventeenth-century copy of a fifteenth-century translation and re-working of the Rosarius Philosophorum, one of the most important texts in the corpus of alchemical works that circulated under the name of…

  • Attributed To Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311
  • Contributor Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305
  • Subject Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311, Alchemy, Alchemy--Manuscripts, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Scientific illustration
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  110 items
  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Trois Traitez de la Philosophie Naturelle non Encore Imprimez

  • Three Treaties of Natural Philosophy Not Yet in Print

  • 1612

  A collection of alchemical works containing the first appearance of the supposed biography of alchemist Nicholas Flamel (c. 1340-1418). Flamel was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. Flamel and his wife, Perrenelle…

  • Contributor Arnauld, Pierre, sieur de la chevallerie, Flamel, Nicolas, -1418
  • Publisher Marette, Guillaume
  • Author Artephius, Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais
  • Subject Flamel, Nicolas, -1418, Arnauld, Pierre, sieur de la chevallerie, Alchemy, Alchemists, Occultism, Occultists, Emblems, Symbolism