Artis Auriferae

Title page of Volume 1, 1572

The Artis Auriferae is an early collection of alchemical writings in Latin, first published in 1572 in Basel by Pietro Perna in two volumes. It was reprinted in Basel in 1593 by Konrad Waldkirch , Perna's son-in-law, and again in 1610 (with a third volume).

It is part of a collecting activity that began in Nuremberg ( De Alchemia 1541, Johannes Petreius ) by publishers of alchemical texts, which eventually led to the Theatrum Chemicum (from 1602). Perna had previously printed a collection Verae alchemiae ... by Guglielmo Gratorolo in Basel (first in 1561, in a second edition in 1572). Some of the writings in Artis Auriferae are therefore already published in earlier collections.

The full title of the book is: Artis auriferae quam chemiam vocant (The Art of Gold Making , Called Chemistry). The Turba Philosophorum is printed in it for the first time . A German translation of the Turba and a text by Roger Bacon based on this edition was published in Frankfurt in 1597 and 1608 (publisher Paulus Hildenbrandt von Hildenbrandseck). A German edition of the first two volumes appeared in Basel in 1613, reprinted in 1750 (translator was Philip Morgenstern).

The 1610 edition was in Isaac Newton's library . Even Carl Jung refers in his book "Psychology and Religion" at the Artis Auriferae.

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The 1610 edition at Waldkirch had 3 volumes. Authors or alleged authors are added in brackets.

Part 1:

Propositiones, seu maximae artis Chymicae
Turba Philosophorum
Turbae Philosophorum, alterum exemplar
Allegoriae supra librum Turbae
Aenigmata ex visione Arislei
Exercitationes in Turbam
Aurora consurgens
( Zosimos of Panopolis , here called Rosinus) Rosinus ad Euthiciam
(Zosimos of Panopolis) Idem ad Saratantam Episcopum
(Zosimos of Panopolis) Liber definitionum eiusdem
( Maria the Jewess ) Mariae Prophetissae Practica
( Chalid ibn Yazid ) Liber secretorum Calidii filii Jazichi
(Chalid ibn Yazid) Liber trium verborum Kallid
(Pseudo- Aristotle ) Aristotle de lapide philosophorum
Avicenna de conglutinatione lapidis
Expositio epistolae Alexandri Regis
Ignotus autor de secretis lapidis
Merlini allegoria de arcano lapidis
Rachaidibi ... de materia lapidis
(Pseudo-Avicenna) Avicennae Tractatulus de alchemia
Semita Semitae
Clangor Buccinae
Correctio fatuorum
Incertus author de arte chymica

Volume 2:

( Morienus , or Chalid ibn Yazid and as editor Robert von Chester ): Liber de compositione alchemiae, quem edidit Morienus Romanus, Calid Regi Aegyptiorum: quem Robertus Castrensis de Arabico in Latinum transtulit (the earliest alchemy book translated from Arabic in the Latin Middle Ages)
Bernardi Trevinensis responsium ad Thomam de Bononia de mineralibus & elixiris compositione
(Robertus Vallensis, di Robert Duval ) Roberti Vallensis Tabulis illustrata
Liber de arte chimia incertis authoris nunquam hactenus in Lucem editus
Scala philosophorum
Ludus puerorum (et opus mulierum)
Rosarium Philosophorum (cum figuris)
- as an inset ( attributed to Arnaldus de Villanova ) Rosarium, Novum lumen, Flos florum ad regem Aragonum, epistula super alchemia ad regem Neapolitanum
( Roger Bacon ) Rogerius Bacho Anglus de mirabile potestate artis et naturae

Volume 3:

Pseudo-Lull : Lullii Ultimum Testamentum
Elucidationem Testamenti totius ad R. Odoardum.
Potestatem divitiarum, cum optima expositione Testamenti Hermetis.
Compendium artis magicae quoad compositionem lapidis.
De Lapide et oleo philosophorum.
Modum accipiendi aurum potabile.
Compendium alchimiae et naturalis philosophiae.
Lapidary. Item Alberti Magni Secretorum tractatus.
Abbreviationes quasdam de secretis secretorum Joannis Pauperum.
( Arnaldus von Villanova ): Arnaldi Quaest. de arte transmut. Metal. eiusq. Testament.
Omnia hactenus now quam visa nec edita.

literature

John Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, Volume 1, Glasgow 1906, pp. 51f

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Carl Gustav Jung: Psychology and Religion . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-15068-8 , p. 58 .
↑ Arisleus is the alleged author of the Turba
↑ Rising dawn. A manuscript from the early 15th century illustrated with allegorical representations of alchemy, in two parts. The second part is printed here, the first was printed in 1625 in Harmonia inperscrutabilis (by Johannes Grasshoff or Johannes Rhenanus ) and influenced the Rosarium Philosophorum . Attributed to Thomas Aquinas in some manuscripts . It was also studied by Carl Gustav Jung and published by his pupil Marie-Luise von Franz in 1957. See also: Joachim Telle , Aurora consurgens, Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 1, 1980, Sp. 1245–1246
↑ Khalid Rachaidibi, son of Zethaibida, referred to as the philosopher of the Persian king, with three others: Veradianus, Rodianus, Kanidis. Regarded as the form of the name of Chalid ibn Yazid by older authors whom Ferguson (Bibl. Chemica, 1906, Volume 1, pp. 300, 450) reviews (although according to Ferguson there was quite a confusion on this question), since z. For example, in a German edition of the Geber's writings in Vienna in 1751 and in Morgenstern's above-mentioned translation, the Liber trium verborum, otherwise attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid, is ascribed to a Khalid Rachaidibi, as well as Steinschneider, The European Translations from Arabic to the Middle of the 17th Century , Part 2, Session Reports Wiener Akad., 1906, p. 28. The distortions may be due to the fact that he is referred to as a Jew in the Liber secretorum printed above.
↑ Sometimes attributed to or superseded by Arnaldus von Villanova
↑ In the German translation as Ton der Schalmeien
↑ according to Ferguson not reprinted in his copy and probably a printing error, as there is a similar title in volume 1
↑ Attributed to a Guido de Montanor in the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa
↑ For the Rosarium Philosophorum see De Alchemia
↑ Not identical to the large rosarium

[1] Carl Gustav Jung: Psychology and Religion . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-15068-8 , p. 58 .

[2] Arisleus is the alleged author of the Turba

[3] Rising dawn. A manuscript from the early 15th century illustrated with allegorical representations of alchemy, in two parts. The second part is printed here, the first was printed in 1625 in Harmonia inperscrutabilis (by Johannes Grasshoff or Johannes Rhenanus ) and influenced the Rosarium Philosophorum . Attributed to Thomas Aquinas in some manuscripts . It was also studied by Carl Gustav Jung and published by his pupil Marie-Luise von Franz in 1957. See also: Joachim Telle , Aurora consurgens, Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 1, 1980, Sp. 1245–1246

[4] Khalid Rachaidibi, son of Zethaibida, referred to as the philosopher of the Persian king, with three others: Veradianus, Rodianus, Kanidis. Regarded as the form of the name of Chalid ibn Yazid by older authors whom Ferguson (Bibl. Chemica, 1906, Volume 1, pp. 300, 450) reviews (although according to Ferguson there was quite a confusion on this question), since z. For example, in a German edition of the Geber's writings in Vienna in 1751 and in Morgenstern's above-mentioned translation, the Liber trium verborum, otherwise attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid, is ascribed to a Khalid Rachaidibi, as well as Steinschneider, The European Translations from Arabic to the Middle of the 17th Century , Part 2, Session Reports Wiener Akad., 1906, p. 28. The distortions may be due to the fact that he is referred to as a Jew in the Liber secretorum printed above.

[5] Sometimes attributed to or superseded by Arnaldus von Villanova

[6] In the German translation as Ton der Schalmeien

[7] rding to Ferguson not reprinted in his copy and probably a printing error, as there is a similar title in volume 1

[8] Attributed to a Guido de Montanor in the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa

[9] For the Rosarium Philosophorum see De Alchemia

[10] Not identical to the large rosarium