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  275 items
  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Geberis Philosophi Perspicacissimi Summa Perfectionis Magisterii in sua Natura ex Bibliothecae Vaticanae Exemplari Undecunque

  • 1542

  Work from the "pseudo-Geber" corpus, a group of writings falsely attributed to the Arabic alchemist, Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (died c. 806–816, Latinized as “Geber"). These writings are actually from 13th or…

  • Author Geber, active 13th century
  • Publisher Apud Dominum Joannem Baptistam Pederzanum Brixiensem, Apud Petrum Schoeffer
  • Subject Alchemy, Summa perfectionis magisterii (Geber), Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Furnaces, Muslim scientists, Alchemists
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  380 items
  Manuscripts, Rare books

  Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia

  • The Book of the Secrets of Nature or of the Quintessence

  • 1498

  The Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia is the central work in the Pseudo-Lullian Alchemical corpus, a large collection of as many as 143 different texts that circulated as the work of Raymond Lull (Ramon…

  • Author Pseudo-Llull
  • Subject Alchemy, Alchemy--Manuscripts, Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316, Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365
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  Rare books

  Della Theriaca et del Mithridato Libri Due

  • 1572

  Maranta of Venosa's work on antidotes to poisons. Only engraved title page has been digitized at this time.

  • Author Maranta, Bartolomeo, -1571
  • Publisher Marcantonio Olmo
  • Subject Toxicology