Paracelsus (Bombastus ab Hohenheim) Aureolis Phillippus Theophrastus, (1493-1541)

Aurore australe de Théophraste A[u]réole Paracelse Archydoxes magiques contenans l'Art de la Chryzopée. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. Written in French, German, and Latin by the same hand throughout, this MS. contains alchemical, chemical and iatro-chemical receipts and extracts from the works of Paracelsus and his followers. The latest dated receipt, 1748, is found on p. 697 of Vol. I: the 104 ll. at the end of Vol. II contain a copious index.

mid-18th century

2 volumes 2 vols. 1 l. + 943 pp. + 1 bl. l., 1 l. + 526 pp. + 5 bl. ll. + 104 ll. 8vo. 16 × 161/2 cm. Original olive gilt-stamped morocco binding.

Purchased 1936.

Pasted inside the upper cover of Vol. I is the armorial book-plate of Nicolas Le Camus, who was Président de la Cour des Aides, and who died in 1767. Below this is the armorial book-plate in gold on sable of Stanislas de Guaita [1860-1897]. On the verso of the fly-leaf to this volume is an inscription by him, giving a short account of the work headed 'Ex libris Kabbalisticis Stanislai de Guaita'. This MS. is entered as No. 1952 in Dorbon's Catalogue of the De Guaita Library.

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).