Compendium libri cabalistico-chymici

COMPENDIUM libri cabalistico-chymici Artephius seu Aesch Mezareph dicti de Lapide Philosophorum. With two short commentaries: in Latin. Followed by two other alchemical tracts in German, and extracts, also in German, from Johann Schroeder's 'Artzney-Schatz der Medicin'. The fourth work is illustrated with pen-drawings of sigils.

c. 1725

1 volume 2 ll. first bl.. + 227 pp. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 19 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased at Hamburg (Maltzahn Sale) 18/10/1930, Lot 682.

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).

In Kopp 'Die Alchemie', 1886, Vol. II, pp. 232-234 there is a discussion of the works contained in this MS., and their connection with Knörr von Rosenroth's 'Kabbala denudata', 1677-84. It is also mentioned in Waite's 'Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah', 1902, pp. 308-313. Hebrew symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.