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

Le Discours sur l'Alchimie. Traité des Definitions, des Passages et Mots obscurs dans les Écrits de Paracelse by Gerardus Dorn. Holograph MS. by Albert Poisson [1868-1894]. Produced in Paris.

c. 1890

1 volume 140 ll. (first 2 & last 4 bl.). 4to. 191/2 × 15 cm. Original cloth binding. Written mostly on the versos or rectos only in a ruled note-book.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 485 (part).

From the library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark lable 'L.H.118'.

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).

The first work is a translation of the third part of the 'Paragranum' (cf. Sudhoff I, 166) first published in 1565. There was a French translation, found in 'Les XIV livres des Paragraphes, Paris, H. du Mesnil, 1631' (ibid. I. 366). The second part is probably a translation of the 'Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi' by Gerardus Dorn, at Frankfort in 1583 (Sudhoff I, 198).