Alphidius

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Alphidius , also Asfidus, Alfidius, Alvidius, is the author's name of an unknown probably Arab alchemist of the Middle Ages. Nothing is known about him, but citations and excerpts from his writings began in the 14th century.

He wrote a short report and parabolic Tractätlein , printed in the Thesaurinella Olympica Aurea Tripartita collection by Benedictus Figulus (Frankfurt 1682) and in the Trinum Chymicum collection (Strasbourg 1699), with Vincentius Koffsky and a pseudo-Lull script (Clavis Raymundii Lullii ).

His allegorical symbolism influenced major works of alchemical image imagination, the Splendor Solis and Lamspring .

An alchemist Alphidius also appears in the Rosarium Philosophorum (first published in De Alchemia ) , written in dialogue form . According to Karl Christoph Schmieder there is a manuscript (Claves quinque de lapide philosophico et alia fragmenti de lapide philosophico componendo) by an Alphidius in the library of the San Lorenzo monastery in El Escorial. The age is unknown according to Schmieder, since an Alphidius is mentioned in the Turba Philosophorum , but he suspects that it may be classified in the Middle Ages (12th century or earlier).

According to Buntz, possibly identical to the Asfidus quoted by Ibn Umail .

He was often confused with Artephius .

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  1. ^ Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Glasgow 1906, Volume 1, p. 27, assigns it to the 12th century.
  2. Joachim Telle, see article in author's dictionary.
  3. Contents .
  4. From the tincture root of the Philosopher's Stone . Koffsky was a Polish Dominican who died in 1488 in a monastery in Gdansk. Hermann Kopp: The Alchemy in Older and Modern Times , Heidelberg 1866, Volume 2, p. 339, see also Joachim Telle , Vinzenz Kofsky, author lexicon , Vol. 5, 1985, Sp. 10-14.
  5. ^ Rosary, Alchemy website , English translation
  6. History of Alchemy, 1832, p. 130.