• Philosophia reformata, continent libros binos, 1622

Curatorial Notes:

• The physician Johann Daniel Mylius illustrated his edition of the 15th-century Scala philosophorum (Ladder of the Philosophers) with twelve alchemical engravings, including the Chemical Wedding. The sequence shown here was originally designed for a later work, the Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine, which describes a different chemical approach, based on antimony. Mylius has retrofitted the sequence by adding titles that correspond to the first four steps of the Scala: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, and Conjunction.

Credit Line:

• Rare Books Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Early works to 1800

Creator:

• Mylius, Johann Daniel, 1585 or 1586-

Author:

• Mylius, Johann Daniel, 1585 or 1586-

Language:

• Latin

Publisher:

• Francofurti : Apud Lucam Iennis, 1622.

Date:

• 1622

Extent:

• [38], 703, [35] p. : ill. (etchings) ; 21 cm. (4to)

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9961456623506421

Subject:

• Alchemy—Early works to 1800

Bookseller:

• Jennis, Lucas

Description:

• Title is letterpress within etched historiated border.
• Errors in paging: 413, 416, 417, 420 numbered 417, 420, 421, 424, respectively.
• Includes index.

Binding note:

• Ex copy: In old leather, repaired at fore-edges and rebacked; marbled endpapers; edges sprinkled red and green.

References:

• Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 420

Provenance:

• Ex copy: Slip tipped in on upper paste-down with ms. inscription: Ex libris R.E.T. Ingel.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/8w32rc59q