[Heinrich Khunrath. De hyleali id est primateriali …]

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      GB 247 MS Ferguson 131
  • Dates of Creation
      16--
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      English
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      72 leaves (of which 4 are blank). 136 pages. 19.7x15.3 cm

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Heinrich Khunrath. De hyleali id est primateriali catholico naturali chaos naturaliae alchymiae, et alchymistaru. id est Veuisa et plurimum augmentata confessio naturaliae alchymiae, et alchymistarum. Henrici Kunrath Lip: theosophi medicinae utriusque doctoris. Preface dated at Magdeburg, 1593. The text is headed: Confessio philosophica henrici Kunrath. Lips. docto. de catholico et physico chemico chaos.
1. p1 De hyleali id est primateriali catholico naturali chaos naturalis alchymiae, et Alchymistarum id est Revisa et plurimum augmentata confessio naturalis alchymiae, et Alchymistarum henrici Kunrath Lip: theosophi medicina utriusque doctoriae.
2. p9 Confessio philosophica henrici Kunrath Lips: docto de catholico et physico Chemico chaos. [Text in 10 chapters.]
[See 'Symbolum Physico-Chymicum Henrici Khunrath Lips. Utriusque Med. Doct. De Chao Physico-Chymicorum Catholico, Naturali, Triuno, Mirabili atque Mirifica, Secretissimo: Lapidis Philosophorum Universalis et Magni Subiecto genuino ac Calumniae parentes. Pfui Diabolo.', Hamburg, 1598.]
[On flyleaf]: 'Les ouvrages de Khunrath, tout Aenigmatiques et inintelligibles (sic) quils sont, sont recherchés par les Alchimistes, il ne [...] pas quil yen eu d'imprimés sores le libre de celuycy. C'est une chose a verifier. Il y a du même auteur un traité intitulé Magnetia Catholica Philosophorum, imprime in 8° 1599, dont il est question dans ce manuscrit. C'est un chose a verifier.'
[Bookplate]: M. Hyancinthi Theodori Baron Antiqui Facultatis Medicinae Parisiensis Decani.
John Ferguson bought the volume on 6 July 1908, from Rosenthal.
A German version, Von Hylealischen, was published at Magdeburg in 1598. Ferguson says (Bibliotheca chemica I, 463): 'There seems to have been an earlier work: Confessio de chao physico-chemicorum catholico, the preface of which was dated Magdeburg 1596.'

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