Lampadem vitae & mortis omniumque graviorum in microcosmo [pathon] indicem : hoc est, Biolychnium sive lucernam : cum vitâ ejus, cui accensa est mysticè, viventem jugiter : cum morte ejusdem expirantem : omnesque affectus graviores prodentem / antehâc quidem cura & studio J.E.B. obscure nimis (more philosophico) traditam ; nunc, dilucidiori stylo, se expositurum intimat G.F. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burggrav, Johann Ernst, active 1600-1629, author.

Contributor:

G. F., active 1678, editor.

Doude, Aernout, active 1668-1680, bookseller.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Physical Description:

72 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm (12mo)

Distribution:

Lugd. Batav. : Apud Arnoudum Doude, 1678 [i.e. 1679]

Other Title:

Sic conspirando liquor hic se effundit in auras

Fingerprint:

u-us .)ra o-ut Cota (7) 1678 (A)

Notes:

"J.E.B." is Johann Ernst Burggrav. See STCN.

The word "pathon" in title appears in Greek characters.

Added engraved illustrated title leaf reads: Sic conspirando liquor hic se effundit in auras. Lugduni Batavorum Apud Arnoldum Doude. Anno. 1679.

Signatures: A-F⁶.

Engraved illustrations (plates).

Published in 1611 as part of Biolychnium; seu, Lucerna.

Local Notes:

Smith copy bound with: Mercurii zweyfacher Schlangen-stab. Ulm : In Verlegung Balthasar Kühnen Seel. Wittib, 1679 -- Felgenhauer, Paul. Anthora. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1677].

Smith copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc., with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Cited in:

STCN 064094804

OCLC:

14303173

Online:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page