- Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab Gottes, oder, Der werde vnnd heilsamme Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi..., 1582
- Curatorial Notes:
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- The woodcut in this German alchemical collection illustrates a much earlier text, The Book of the Secret of Creation. This Arabic treatise, pseudonymously ascribed to Apollonius of Tyana, describes a vault hidden beneath a statue of Hermes. Within, an old man sits on a golden throne, clasping a text inscribed on an emerald and a book of secret wisdom. The scene is depicted in several medieval image sequences, in which the secret book is reimagined as an illustrated tome.
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- Rare Books Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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- Book
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- Creator:
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- Epimetheus, Franciscus, pseud
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- Epimetheus, Franciscus, pseud
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- Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558
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- German
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- Basel : bey Samuel Apario, 1582.
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- 1582
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- [16], 309, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm. (8vo)
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- "Gemacht durch Franciscum Epimetheum."- p. 1.
- "Vorrede" signed: Hieronymus Reusnerus. Apparently only the editor.--cf. Duveen
- Imprint from colophon.
- Bound wiith Ragneau, F. Lex politica Dei. 1588.
- References:
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- Duveen, D.I. Alchemia et chemica, p.504
- Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, II,259
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- Ex copy has inscription "Ex libris Joan. Jos. Com. de Thun" on front free endpaper and the red ink armorial stamp of the Tetschner Bibliothek on verso of titlepage.
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- ark:/88435/9k41zm48p