Mercurii zweyfacher Schlangen-stab : das ist: I. Glücks-Ruthe zu Paracelsi chymischem Schatz : II. Menstruum seu Solvens universale philosophicum, darinnen das Gold sine strepitu, wie Eyss in warmen Wasser zerschmilst : samt dem ganzen philosophischen Process.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saphir, G. C., author.

Contributor:

Kühn, Anna, 1623-1678, publisher.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Paracelsus, 1493-1541.

Paracelsus.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

[4], 112, [4] pages ; 13 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

M.Vr ssn. n-r- foAl (3) 1679 (A)

Place of Publication:

Ulm : In Verlegung Balthasar Kühnen Seel. Wittib, 1679.

Contents:

I. Glücks-Ruthe zu Erhebung dess von Paracelso angezeigten königlichen Schatzes, zwischen Beyern und Schwaben / beschrieben durch a. A. Naturalium cultorem, also benahmt

II. Menstruum seu solvens universale philosophorum : das ist, Klärliche Beschreibung dess universal-subjecti, darinnen solch menstruum begriffen : und wie dessen 3. principia zu extrahiren & mit seinem mare hermeticè zu componiren : auch zur universal tinctur zu perficiren, zu fermentiren und zu augmentiren / durch G.C. Saphir.

Notes:

Signatures: A-E¹² (leaves E11-E12 blanks).

Woodcut illustrations and initials.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Not included in Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica.

Local Notes:

Smith copy bound with: Burggrav, Johann Ernst. Lampadem vitae & mortis omniumque graviorum in microcosmo [pathon] indicem. Lugd. Batav. : Apud Arnoudum Doude, 1678 [i.e. 1679].

Smith copy: third work in volume (Anthora) bound in between pages [44] and 45.

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:

VD 17 39:117815F

Brüning, V.F. Bibliographie der alchemistischen Literatur, 2417

OCLC:

53173639

Online:

The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund Home Page