Aurea catena Homeri, oder, Eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen : wie und woraus sie geboren und gezeuget, auch wie sie in ihr uranfänglich Wesen zerstöret werden, auch was das Ding sey, welches alles gebäret und wieder zerstöret, nach der Natur selbst eigener Anleitung und Ordnung auf das einfältigste gezeiget, und mit seinen schönsten rationibus und Ursachen überall illustriret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirchweger, Anton Joseph, -1746.

Böhme, Johann Georg, publisher.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aurea catena Homeri. German.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Penn Provenance:

Pagel, Walter, 1898-1983 (former owner) (Smith copy)

Pagel, B. E. J. (Bernard Ephraim Julius) (bookplate) (Smith copy)

Gymnasium Georgianum Hildburghausen. Library (stamp) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 212 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 217-221, 225-404 pages, 44 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Aurea catena Homeri

Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen

Fingerprint:

htm- tsre r,ht lesa (3) 1723 (A)

Place of Publication:

Franckfurt und Leipzig : Verlegts Johann Georg Böhme, Im Jahr 1723.

Notes:

A hermetic treatise ascribed by H.F.M. Kopp to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; later edition published in 1781 under title: Annulus platonis.

Signatures: pi² )(⁴ A-N⁸ O⁶ P-2E⁸ (leaves 2E7 and 2E8 blanks).

Engraved plate.

Woodcut illustration, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Title and half-title in red and black.

Errata on leaves 2E5-2E6.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy has some ms. calculations in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding half-title leaf, verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper, verso of back free endpaper, and back pastedown; ms. notes in pencil on verso of front free endpaper and following blank leaf.

Smith copy has ms. numeral ("2813") in blue ink on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("Forbaaj"[?]) on front free endpaper

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from Roger Gaskell Rare Books in 2015.

Smith copy has typescript bookplate ("Ex libris Bernard Pagel") of B.E.J. Pagel affixed to front pastedown; formerly owned by Walter Pagel.

Smith copy has blue ink stamp ("Gymnas: Bibliothe[...] Hildburghausen") of the library of the Gymnasium Georgianum Hildburghausen at head of title leaf.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary parchment with cover extensions (each ca. 5 mm. in width); evidence of ms. spine title; all edges stippled red.

OCLC:

37146527