German alchemical manuscripts
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Das Buch von denen Ringern der Plane, 94 pp., one pen and ink sketch; bound with Carrichter, Bartholomaeus Magische Cur. und heilung Magischer Franck-heiten, 42 pp.; Claviculae salomonis et philosophia pneumatica. Das ist Vollkommenes Geheimnus der Magischen Circulen Characteren Pentaculen, 22pp., title supplied in ?modern facsimile, bound with Modellus Salomonis de Anvelorum qualitate in Mundo visibili manifestata et mundo invisibili Renatis, 54pp., continued as Abano, Petrus de Heptameron, 18pp., and another 44pp. of alchemical notes, bound in two volumes, small 4to, eighteenth century vellum, later ties (2)
Footnote
Note: The illustration is of the "three vases of Artephius", a divinatory method related to the magic mirror, hydromancy and oinomancy. The procedure is expounded in two unpublished manuscripts in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal (no. 3009), the second part of which contains L'art magique d'Artephius et de Mihinius. (Grillot de Givry, pp.307-8.
Provenance: Hans von Cladh (?), ex-libris, note on titles