Libelli aliquot chemici , 1572

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This pseudo-Lullian alchemical collection was edited by the Strasbourg physician Michael Toxites. Here, the “Tree of the Working” sets out the main operations and ingredients used to prepare alchemical medicines from red and white wine. As in authentic Lullian writings, the first cause is God (Deus, represented by the letter A), followed by wine (vinum, B). By presenting Llull’s medicinal alchemy as a natural precursor to Paracelsian chemical medicine, Toxites also bolstered the authority of the Swiss medical reformer Paracelsus.

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First edition. Cf. MacPhail.
Also listed as a "pseudo-Lullian alchemical collection." Cf. Pereira, M. Alchemical Corpus attributed to Lull, p. 18n.
Also issued 1573 as part 2 of Testamentum ... duobus libris universaus arteern chymicam complecteus. Cf. NLM-RLIN.
Signatures: ):(⁸ a-z⁸ A-G⁸ ²a-²b⁸ (final page blank).
Initials.
Errata: prelim. p. [11].
Includes index.
Imperfect: t.-p. wanting. Old ms. t.-p. supplied from unknown source has imprint Argentorati, 1571. Library copy agrees with copy in catalogue of the Bibliotheque nationale.

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