Joh. Michaelis Faustij, med. doct., physici Francofurt. ordinarij ... Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz : mit welchem die alten und neuen Philosophi, die unvollkommene Metall, durch Gewalt des Feuers verbessert, und allerhand schädliche und unheylsame Kranckheiten innerlich und äusserlich, durch deren Würckung vertrieben haben : dieser Edition wird annoch, nebst vielen Kupffern und über 800 Philosophischen Anmerckungen, ein volkom[m]enes Lexicon alchymisticum novum, und ein vollständiges Register rerum & verborum, beygefüget.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faust, Johann Michael, 1663-1707.

Contributor:

Marchand, Johann Christian, 1680-1711.

Reusner, Hieronymus, 1558-

Zieger, Johann, 1646-1711, publisher.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Latin

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)

Scheibenhof, Christoph Froschmayr, Edler von (former owner) (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

26 unnumbered pages, 1054, 1056-1071 pages, 194 unnumbered pages, 104, 236 pages, 1 unnumbered page-T leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Joh. Michaelis Faustii, med. doct., physici Francofurt. ordinarii ... Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris illustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz

Compendium alchymist. novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz

Compendium alchymisticum novum, sive, Pandora explicata & figuris illustrata, das ist, Die edelste Gabe Gottes, oder, Ein güldener Schatz

Pandora explicata & figuris jllustrata

Pandora explicata et figuris illustrata

Edelste Gabe Gottes

Güldener Schatz

Pandora illustrata et illuminata

Fingerprint:

a.ti ioia n-m. ctDi (3) 1706 (A)

Place of Publication:

Franckfurt und Leipzig : Verlegts Johann Zieger, 1706.

Notes:

Brief extracts in Latin from writers on alchemy, with commentary in German. Based on Reusner's Pandora of 1582. See Hogart.

Signatures: pi1 )(⁴ 2)(⁸ A-3Q⁸ 3R⁸(-3R8) 3S⁸-4K⁸ 4L1 (A)-(F)⁸ (G)⁴ a⁸, ²B-O⁸ P⁶.

Leaves of gathering )( signed as follows: )(2, )(3, [unsigned], [unsigned].

Title (folded leaf pi1, 17 x 20 cm.) printed in red and black

Folded engraved frontispiece plate (17 x 20 cm.) signed: L.C. Marchand fecit in Nürnberg. Nineteen other engraved plates, lettered A-T, have alchemical symbolism, each accompanied by an explanatory letterpress leaf.

Woodcut illustrations, initial and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Smith copy bound in 2 vols., each in 18th-century half calf over speckled boards; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped parchment(?) spine label ("Pandora von J.W. Faust"); gold-stamped black leather spine label with vol. number; decorative endpapers; all edges stippled red; green silk marker in v. 2 and evidence of such a marker in v. 1; ms. title leaf inserted at beginning of v. 2.

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 verso of front free endpaper of v. 1; typescript bookplate ("Ex libris Bernard E.J. Pagel") of the same affixed to verso of front free endpaper of v. 2; formerly owned by Walter Pagel.

Smith copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Christophori liber est equitis Cognomine Froschmayr nobilis de Sheibenhof S.C.M. p[...]o tenentis equarum[?] volatilium quondam regiminis Lövenstein dicti.") of Christoph Froschmayr, Edler von Scheibenhof, at head of blank leaf following front free endpaper of v. 1; affixed below is a woodcut illustration of a chemical laboratory signed: I. Veenhuysen sculp.

Smith copy: v. 1: spine damaged.

Cited in:

Hogart, R. Alchemy, 61

Related Work:

Reusner, Hieronymus, 1558- Pandora.

OCLC:

84547850