John Ferguson - Bibliographia Paracelsica, Parts I-VI, 1877-1896,first series, 1896

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA PARACELSICA.

AN

EXAMINATION OF DR. "

FRIEDRICH MOOK'S

THE OPHRA ST US PARACELSUS.

EINE

KRITISCHE STUD IE."

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BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE,

153

WEST NILE

1885.

r

ST.


700 Copies printed.


The

former part of

Examination, which was printed in 1877,

this

completed the criticism of Mook's study, so concerned, and

I

had no

again to the subject. that I

and

and adverse

them

myself was

intention, at that time, of ever recurring

As

it

might have been urged, however,

had personally inspected only eleven of Paracelsus' works,

that that

larger

far as I

was too small a number whereon to found a general criticism, I felt

number of the books to confirm

appearance of

my

this

bound at

my

— when

opportunity placed a

disposal

— to

avail

previously expressed opinion.

second

myself of

Hence

the

part.

JOHN FERGUSON. University of Glasgow, August, 1885.



;

BIBLIOGRAPHIA PARACELSICA. I.

ยง

As

the following

merely a continuation of

is

list

was formerly printed, the running number has been continued for convenience of reference, and the same that which

plan has been adopted for the descriptions of the books.

The

are

titles

given in

the

with

full,

then remarks upon Mook's account are appended

these remarks will be list

is

when

General considerations arising out of

such are required.

the

and

collations,

finished,

more

when

satisfactorily dealt with

and the

facts that

it

contains are set

all,

with one excep-

in order.

The books

to be

now

described have

tion (No. 55, in the British

two private

collections.

that of course scarce,

is

They have

impossible.

in foreign catalogues

they

before one can apply for them.

In

catalogues they are

translations are scarcest of

be thankful in

securing

if it.

still all,

anything come It

not been selected

Paracelsus' books are very

and when they do occur

are generally sold

home

Museum), been obtained from

scarcer,

and the English

so that the collector

in his

way and

has therefore surprised

me

if

he succeed

that so

should have been brought together as the following tains; far more, indeed, than exist in

any

may

many

list

con-

library catalogue


;

6

except

in that

of the

desires to pursue the subject in detail

to

work

in that collection,

Any

Museum.

British

one who

would certainly have

where there

a large repre-

is

sentation of Paracelsus' writings.

49.

— 1536.

Prognostica

1

tic

Ad Vigesimvm

per eximium

duratura,

Doctorem

Qvar-|tum annum

Theophraftum

Para-

|

Ad

celfum,

illuftriffimum

ac

|

potentiffimu

principem

Regem femper Auguftum &c. confcripta. Anno xxxvi.

Ferdinandum, Ro-[man. Archidu- cem Auftrije 1

&c.

|

Marcvs Tativs ad Si ciipis

|

Lectorem.

Aftrorujii Jataleis fcire meatus,

A rcafiisq'j fimul miftica

uerba

notis.

Quid facra ueniuros p7-omittant fydera

in annos,

Et quod portendunt, spesue, vietusiie fiet. Humanas pariter quo terrens o/nine menteis Nos

inoneat clemens

ad pia facta Deus.

Concitus Aethereo Doctor Thepraftus (sic) ab

ceftro,

Diuite mirandis hac docet ore modis. Vi caucant, queifcunq; maiutu, mala fata minantur, Quamuis hie nullum iiominet ilk uirum.

Cum gratia

&^ priuilegio Ca:farcce ac Regies Maieft. lie quis imprimat fine pcrmifsione poena 20. marcarum auri purL

Small

4to.

Signatures A-F.

\

Ai, Title; Aij-Aiv, Prasfatio

Eiv contain the 32 emblems and accompanying text; Fi to Fiij, Expositio brevis Prognosticationis. Fiv (wanting)

B

contains verses and colophon.

In Mook's transcription (No. 10) there are several accuracies.

he omits &c.

He

in-

has senider for semper, and after Austrice

conscripta.

he reads Theophrasttis ab

In the seventh line of the verses astro,

which

is

all

wrong

;

in the

in the privdege ninth line quie scunque for queiscwique, and punctuation in four ut quis for nc quis. He has altered the


—

—

7

and has substituted without any system u

places,

V

u of the

for

As

and

for v,

original.

the copy

me wants

have had before

I

the last leaf

ad Gennaniam ExJwrtatio and the

containing

M.

Tatii

colophon,

am

unable to say whether Mook's transcription

is

I

The colophon which he

accurate or not.

follows

gives

This tract was reprinted some forty years

Mook, who mentions

out date.

it

later,

Steyner,

but with-

(No. 241) says that

was a copy of iii.

in

in

the

the Beckford Library {Catalogue [1883],

Mook

No. 409).

reappeared

and

it

it

There

contains the best set of the woodcuts he knows.

it

as

:

Excusum Augustae Vindelicorum, per Henricum XXVI Augusti, An. mdxxxvi.

Part

is

does not allude to the fact that

in the Lectiones of Wolfius, printed in

Reformir - Spiegel des weltlicheu

Joannes de Hyperiis, printed

in

Bapsts

These

1620.

1600,

of

will

be

referred to below.

this

work the

47

Museum

In the British

title

^

^j^^^^

^ ^^^^

of which differs both from that above

given and from that of the undated edition (Mook's No. It is as follows

241;.

:

Prognostica] tic ad vigesimvm qvar-] turn vfq duratura, per

eximium

Ad illuftriffimum Ro-|man.

|

dnm

|

;

annum

ac Doctorem Paracelfum,

ac potentiffimu principem Ferdinandum,

Regem femper Auguftum Anno xxxvi.

&c.

Archidu-|

cem

Auftriae &c. confcripta.

|

Marcvs Tativs ad

|

Lectorem.

Same

as that quoted

above.

Small 4to.

This edition.

is

Sigs. A-Fiii.

Fiv wanting.

probably a mere variation and not a separate


s 50.

— 1560.

Generosi Omniqve

in ^cientiarvtn

Genere Experixi^xxM. Theophrafti Paracelfi ab Hohenheim, philofophif & utriufq; medicinse Doctoris clarifsimi, Libri quatuor De uiri,

uita longa.

Et Opera Adavii a

Diligentia

primum

Bodcnstein

in lucetn aditi [sic].

kvix^s

k-oX

recogniti,

nuncq;

Anno

direxir.

M.D.LX.

Small 8vo.

numbered.

In the

title

Title,

Epistola Nuncupatoria,

Text, pp. 78, followed by a blank

as given

by Mock (No.

differences, such as the omission

last

sentence however runs thus Diligentia editi

Here the order added; has

this

is

51.

— 1563.

issue

primum

in litcein

Greek omitted, and Basileae

been done gratuitously by Mook, or were

now

book

If so,

}

Mook

has not seen a

described.

Medicorvm

&

The

:

Et

Philosophorvm

Theophrafti Paracelfi, Eremitse, fignis

after clarissimi.

Basileae.

altered, the

there two issues of the

copy of the

leaf.

22) there are minor

opa-a recogniti nuncque

et

Adanii a Bodenstein.

not

of contractions and the

comma

substitution of a period for a

10,

fif.

curationibus

libri {sic)

Svmmi, Avreoli quinque de

morborum ex Tartaro

caufis,

vtilifsimi.

Opera Et Indvstria Nobilis Viri Adanii A Bodcnstein, in iamiam niicrocoftni Iticem propter co7nmune conimodum primum hoc tempore quod Theophrastus ante multos annos prceuidit fore veritati confonum publicati. Basileae,

Per Petrutn Fernam.

Small 8vo.

Bodenstein to Errata, pp.

2,

Title,

Epistola

Cosmo de

kvkyjs koX

airkyjs.

1563.

Dedicatoria from

Medici,

ff.

8.

not numbered, followed by

5

Adam

Text, pp. 265. blank pages.

(No. 36) again makes alterations. For the misprint libri he substitutes the correction Libri ; alters the

Mook

punctuation,

and puts publicari

for publicati.

Among


9

minor chancres must be noticed that of of n to

toy, of

/

to u

7'

and

7'.

52.— 1564. Des Hocherfarnen vnd Hochgelehrteu Herrn Theophrafti Paracelfi

von Hohenheim, beider Artzney Doctoris,

ad Athenienfes, drey Bucher. Von vrsachen vnd Cur Epilepfise, das ist, des Hinfallenden siechtagen, Item, Vom vrsprvng, Cur vor in Truck nie aussgangen. Phisopliiae

(s/c)

oder heilung der contracten glidem, jetzt newlich auss des Theophrafti selbst eigner Handtschrift trewlich an tag

Gedruckt zu Coin, Durch die Erben Arnoldi Byrckmanni. Anno 1564. Mit Keis. Maiest. Gnad vnd

geben.

Freyheit.

Small 4to.

Title (in red

Text ends on

A2-K4.

On

defiderabantur.

words

Pax

:

fallenden

viuis,

the

recto: Reliqua,

reverse

is

...

&c.,

a-l2.

l3-q3.

On

fi

quae deerant,

the shield, with the

Von

requies seterna fepultis.

Siechtagen

contracten glidern

K4

and black) Ai; Philosophia,

Vom

dera Hin-

vrsprung

the reverse of q3

...

der

is

the

epitaph on Paracelsus ])rinted in capitals, below which the coat of arms

Does

it

contain a portrait of Parcelsus?

contains in

Mook

and legend repeated.

all

ff.

The volume

(No. 39) corrects the misprint into Philosophiae.

Handtschrift he substitutes

Byrckmanni.

after

portrait

is

wanting.

103.

For Cur oder heilung he reads

all

q4

is

;

Cicr

eigtie

und heilung ;

Handtschrifft,

for eigner

and omits

The copy Mook saw contained no

at all events while

he mentions the coat of arms

he does not allude to any portrait, or to the leaf q4.

53-— 1564- Des Hochgelerten vn Hocherfarnen Herren Theophrafti Paracelfi von Hohenheim, beider Artzney Doctoris, etliche tractaten vor in

Vom Vom

Schlag.

Von

der Fallender

Truck nie ausskommen.

Podagra vnd seinen speciebus. siicht.


lO

Von

der Daubsucht oder vnsinnigkeit

Vom

Kaltenwehe,

Von der Colica. Von dem Bauchreissen. Von der Wassersiicht.

Vom Vom

Schwinen oder Aridura. Schwinen oder Schwindsucht Hectica.

Von Farbsuchten. Von Wurmen.

Vom

StullaulT.

Gedruckt zu Coin, Durch die Erben Arnoldi Byrckmanni. Anno 1564. Mit Keis. Maiest. Gnad vnd Freyheit. Small 4to.

and shield;

Title,

on the reverse of which the epitaph

Ermanung zum Leser;

Silerani Prologus,

ff.

Valentij

Antrapassi

Text, pp. 167.

4.

For fallender Mock (No. 41) reads falleiiden, makes changes in spelling and punctuation and omits the date and privilege 54.

— 1564.

clause,

though

Holtzbiichlein

hochgelehrten,

in other cases

Des theuren, Hocherfamen, von Gott

weisen

'

Theophrasti

griindtlich der recht nutz

holtzes,

schein,

he quotes both.

Paracelsi, Darinnen vnd gebrauch des Frantzosen

sampt allem miszuerstand, verderbung, falschem vnd jrrsal der vermainten artzet, reichlich wiirt

angezaigt, trewlich ausz seinen Buchern durch einen trewen

liebhaber der Artzeneyen nutzlicher Tractat, von

dem

zusamen gelesen. Item, ein Vitriol, vnd seiner tugendt.

Getruckt zu Strassburg bey Christian MUller.

1564.

Small 8vo, no pagination.

Ai

on the reverse the epitaph Aviij-Bij,

Ci

To

;

Signatures A-C. Aij-vij, Toxites'

dem

Vitriol

Dedication

\

Biij-Ci recto. Text;

the Christian Reader.

verso to Cvij, von

Title,

;

Cvij verso

and

Cviij

blank.

Except

for substituting a small

word Darinnen and

for a capital

d

spelling zusamen with two m's,

in

the

Mook


1!

1

managed

(No. 42) has actually

and 55.

including the date

in full,

— [1566.] Theophrasti\

|

|

Compendivm, j

I

eius libris

Longa,

Vita

matum.

Cum

: |

Pianos

\

Ex

|

in libros

fcholiis

myfteriorum,

optimis quibufiiii.

eiufde

parabolarum,

De

|

senig|

Auctore Leone Suauio I.G.P.

|

etMedicinae,

Philosophiae

Paracelsi

vsqve vniversds.,

vtri-

que

to quote this title correctly

\

Vita Paracelsi. |

Catalogus operum

&

librorum.

Cum

|

Indice rerum in hoc

opere fingularium. Parisiis

In sedibus Rovillii, via lacobsea,

|

|

Sub figno Concordiae. |

Cvm

[No

Privilegio Regis

date.]

\

Small 8vo;

signatures

in

numbered; 21 not numbered

fours.

Contains

3 blank.

;

The

pp. 376 following is

a complete collation. p. I.

Title, enclosed in

p. 2.

Privilege.

p. 3.

ends

p.

Leo Svavivs Nobili Viro Renato Peroto Cenomanensi. dated LutetiDe viii. Idus Sext. Anno m.lxvi (jzV).

6

;

S.

:

Praefatio Leonis Svavii de Avtoris Vita et Operibvs.

p. 7. p. 12. p.

an ornamental scroll border,

Erasmus

to Paracelsus,

17. Epitaph.

p. 18.

Valentii Antrapassi Silerani Praefatio.

p. 22.

Catalogvs eorvm quje hoc opere continentur....Vna effigie ad viuum, vt ipfe curauit, expreffa.

cum

eiufdem Paracelfi

|

p. 23.

Compendium

p. 81.

i'^. r/zft^/Z/raj/i Paracelsi

begins.

De

Vita longa Libri IIII. Portrait

Below are the words Effigies Paracelsi, et Apophtegma. Alterivs non sit. qvi svvs esse potest,

of Paracelsus.

:

p. 82.

Morellus' epigram in Greek,

p. 83.

Giilii Pinavtii e

Grseco Latinvm Epigramma.

Valentinvs de Retiis de operibvs Paracelsi ad lectorem. p. 85. Catalogvs. p. 84.

p. 87.

p. 88.

Leo Svavivs in Catalogvm. Elenchvs Capitvm Librorvm Qvatvor Th.

Paracelsi de Vita

Longa. p. 89. p.

153-

Kegio

De

Vita longa begins, ends

Leo

.Sal.,

.Svavivs

ends

p.

158.

I.G.P.

p.

lo.

152.

Capclhv Parificnfi Archialro


12

p.

159.

Additional

Works

of Paracelsus,

p. 160.

Blank.

p. 161.

Prrefatio Leonis Svavii I.G.P.

p.

179.

p. 376.

Scholioium Leonis Suauii I.G.P.

De

phrafti Paracelfi *ia.

In fua Scholia, ends

p. 178.

Scholia begin.

vita longa.

Index Rervm

***iia. Catalogvs

et

in lib. IIII.

Ph. Theo-

Finis.

verborvm Singvlarivm Hvivs Operis, ends

Avtorvm Huius

operis, ends ***iii(7, followed

by

Errores aliqvot Infigniores Operarum.

***ind and

The copy

—a

been consulted has been

fore

is

—from

in the British

which the preceding

Museum

(1032. d.

i)

and

the only one in that or any pubHc hbrary which has

is

1.

blank.

very fine one

has been taken it

iv

made

in

compiling the present

Exception

list.

in its favour for several reasons.

Mook did not see it, and the present description may fill a gap in Paracelsian bibliography. The

2.

editor,

there-

Gohory, was a singular person, and

works are worth remembering,

for their curiosity

his

and great

rarity. 3.

The

trouble.

date of the

first

He knew only the

and on the strength of

Marx

has

all

it

but refused

Mook some

edition has caused

1568 edition (see No. 60 below), as well as from

How

existence of a Paris edition of 1567, cited by Marx. fallacious

Mook's argument

is

was pointed out

{Bibliographi'a Paracelsica, 1877, No. 23),

by

and

it

correct.

relegated to a note

(p. 48,

The Bem.

1

before

was shown

a quotation from Graesse that on this occasion

might possibly be

for

note 50) to admit the

13,

(p.

contempt

Marx

566 edition

Mook

where

quoted on

c),

it

is

has

Adelung's authority. 4.

After describing the 1568 edition

vorausgegangene Pariser Au.sgabcn

Mook

betrifTt,

adds: so

"Was

will

ich


an deren Existenz nicht zweifeln unci wundere mich nur, dass ich noch kein Exemplar, deren es gewiss noch geben

Mook's wonder

—

there

for

Museum, which, from presumably

One can sympathise with

habe."

musste, aufgefunden

numerous

his

How

visited.

copy

this

is

allusions to

did he miss

it ?

British

the

in

it,

Further,

Mook he

if

did not feel warranted in denying the existence of previous Paris editions, his correction 5.

The

— 1567.

be not actually the

Astronomica

lahrten,

of

?

portrait contained in this edition

earliest, if it 56.

why did he not moderate the vehemence of Marx in the note already quoted

one of the

of Paracelsus.

first,

Des

Astrologica,

et

is

Hochge-

Edlen,

Wolerfahrenen Herren, Doctor Avreoli Theophrasti

von Hohenhaim, Paracelsi genandt, &c. Opufcula aliquot, jetzt erst in Truck geben, vnd nach der Vorred verzeichnet. Optima funt, Pietas, Modus, & Cognofce teipfum. Cum Gratia

&

Priuilegio

Imperiali.

Arnoldi Byrckmans Erben,

Small 4to.

Title,

Anno

Vorrede,

Getruckt zu Coin, bey 1567.

Text,

8.

235. pp. Innehalt, p. 236 (misnumbered 235). Erratula, epitaph, shield and portrait of Paracelsus, 2 leaves, not numbered.

Colophon,

after

Vierendunck, in

the

Erratula:

verlagung

ff.

Zu Coin

Arnoldi

truckts Gerhart

Birckmans

Erben.

Followed by a coat of arms.

In Mook's version of this spelling

Wolerfarenen

;

after

title

(No. 56) there

is

the

Truck geben the words vnd

nach der Vorred verzeichnet are omitted.

Mook

puts

etc.

&

between Modus and Cognosce; omits the privilege clause, and the date. The portrait in Mook's instead of

copy comes tion

is

after the preface

different from that in mine.

issues of this celsica,

and according to

work

1877, No. 22.

also

.?

Have

his descrip-

there been

two

See also Bibliographia Para-


u 57-—

1567- Kefs

hocherfahrnesten

Paracelsi schreyben, von

berauben,

da

als

sein

fiechtage, Melancholia

Medici Aureoli Theophrasti

den kranckheyten, so die S.

Veyts

Thantz,

vernunfift

Hinfallender

vnd Vnsinnigkeit, &c. sampt jhrn

warhafften curen.

Darzu auss gemeldts Authoris Biichern gethan sein etliche lustige vnd nutzbare Process, Administrationes vnd wurckungen dess Vitriols vnd Erdenhartzes, in rechter

Adamum

treuw publiciert, durch Kal ajrex*.

Vorrede ordenlich (sic) 6^ priuilegio. Anno m.d.lxvii. ersten

Small 4to.

contains

Mook, No. betvi^een the

Title

ff.

57 in

Av4x^

jJirn

verso-Oi.

he writes

Greek motto and the

Arabic numerals.

preface,

ff.

gratia

Para-

4.

The volume

not numbered.

all,

For

57.

Ai

Text,

d/m

begriffen.

and Bodenstein's

preface, Ai.

celsus'

von Bodenstein.

Innhalt vnd frucht dieses Buchs wird in der

jJire,

date,

and omits

all

which he gives

in

In this transcription he keeps v at the

beginning of the words as

change them to u as

changes he has made

in the original,

This proves that the

in other cases. in

and does not

No. 36 (see above No. 51) are not

unintentional. 58.

— 1567.

Theophrasti Paracelsi von Hohenheim, beyder Artzney

Doctor

(sic)

Von

&c.

der Bergsucht oder Bergkranckheiten

drey Biicher, inn dreyzehen Tractat verfast vnnd beschriben vvorden.

Darifien begryffen

vom

vrsprung vnd herkomen

derselbigen kranckheiten, sampt jhren warhafftigen Preseruatiua

vnnd Curen.

Allen Ertz

vnnd

alien

Bergleiiten, Schmeltzern, Probierern,

Goldschmiden, vnnd Alchimisten,

Miintzmaiftern,

auch

dene so inn Metallen vnd Mineralien arbayten, hoch vnnd notturfftig. Mit Rom. Kay. trostlich

nutzlich,

Maiest. freyheit.

Small 4to.

numbered

;

Anno Domini

Title (red

f 8, blank.

and

Te.xt,

ff.

1567.

black). Epistle, 62.

ff.

7,

not

Register, Qij verso


'S

Qiv

Colophon

recto.

:

Getruckt

Uilingcn durcli Sc-

zii

baldiim Mayer. In this

changes

Mook Vo/i

:

(No. 58) again

he gives

for Prescruatiua,

59.

makes

for vo7u

errors

and arbitrary

vrsprimg ; Preservativa

and omits the privilege clause and date.

— 1567.

Des Hochgelcrte vnd Hocherfahrnen Herren Theophrasti Paracelsi von Hohenheim, beyder Artzeney Doctoris, etliche Tractaten, zum ander mal in Truck aussgangen.

Vom Vom Von Von

Podagra vnd seinen speciebus. Schlag.

der Fallender Sucht. der Daubsucht oder vnsinnigkeit.

Vom

Kaltenwehe.

Von der Colica. Von dem Bauchreissen. Von der Wassersucht.

Vom Vom

Schwinen oder Aridura. Schwinen oder Schwindtsucht, Hectica.

Von Von

Wiirraen.

Vom

Stullauff.

Farbsuchten.

Item newlich hinzu getruckt

:

Von den Podagrischen

Kranckheiten, vnd auch was jn anhengig ein Fragmentiiin.

Gedruckt zu Cohi, Durch die Erben Arnoldi Birckmanni.

Anno

1567.

Mit Keis. Maiest. Gnad vnd

Sniall 4to.

270

pp.

Title,

(nominal),

epitaph with shield,

Ermanung, Prologus, ff. 4. Text, by Register, i page, and page. Reverse is blank. Portrait

followed i

of Paracelsus on reverse of the Title.

most

irregular,

Freiheit.

The

pagination

but the signatures run from

A

to

is

Ooij

inclusive. title

Mook

falle7iden

sucht,

In this der

(No. 60) again gives variations for

fallender

;

ScJnvindsncht,

Schwindtsucht ; je anhengig for jn anhengig. clause

is

omitted.

:

The

Vou fur

privilege


16 60.

— 1568.

Theophrasti Paracelsi Pliilosophiae

Vtrivsqve Vniversae,

Cum

eius libris:

Longa, Plenos

fcholijs

in

optimis quibufque

parabolarum,

Pp. 334.

logia G. Dorn,

Catalogus hoc opere

in

Epistola,

ff.

5.

Index,

ff.

Apo-

9.

Typographus Leoni Suavio, Basileae, Per Petrvm Pernam.

:

Vita

Eenigmatum.

Vita Paracelsi. Indice rerian

De

Basileae, m.d.lxviii.

Small 8vo.

Colophon

Medicinae

et

libros iin. eiufdem

myfteriorum,

Audore Leone Suauio I.G.P. operum & librorum. Cin/i fingiilarium.

Ex

Compendivm,

15.

ff.

For once Mook (No.

62)

ff.

3.

would have been accurate, had

he not given the date as MDLVIII. and changed v to i

to j,

and j to

This

61.

the reprint of No. 55, above, which appeared at

In that edition the Epistola

Paris.

this

is

one

it is

— 1568.

Libellvs Theophrafti Paracelsi Vtrivsqve Medicinae

Doctoris,

De Vrinarum

Phyfionomia Emmelij.

blank.

Text,

tnedico

ac pulfimm iudicijs : turn de Phy-

opus

Fragmentuin,

Anno

Small 8vo.

Title, ff.

s.a.

Praefatio,

42, followed

whereas

Philosophiae

Morborvm

Argentinae Typis Samuelis

is

by

MDLVlll.

except the change of v to u and initial i is left,

Accessit de

eft.

m.d.lxviii.

Mook's date (No. 63)

In

dated simply LXVI.

fionovua quantum

62.

misdated M.LXVI.

is

in

No.

5

1

ff.

7,

not numbered

;

f.

8

blank leaves.

2

The

/

above

Magnae Avreoli

to

rest is accurate, i.

it is

In this

title

changed.

Philippi

Theophrasti

Helvetij, ab Hohenhaim, Philofophorum atq; Medicorum omnium facilfe principis, Collectanea qusedam quorum fummarium poft Apologiam inuenies. Per Gerardvm Dorn E Germanico ^exmone, quanta familiarius Basileae, Apvd clariusq; fieri debtat, Latine reddita. Paracelsi,

:

Petrvm Pernam.


7 Title, Praefatio, Apologia,

Small 8vo. not numbered

;

Index, pp.

and

Epistles

followed by 3 blank pages.

Text, pp. 248.

Mock

Elenchus, pp. 13,

not numbered.

6,

omits from quorwn to inuenics, and has a few slight

and

alterations of punctuation

book among those without under date 1569

identifies

date. it

He

spelling.

gives

No. 245, but

this

a note

in

with one of a similar

title

mentioned by Gesner and concludes that the present volume

was 63.

really printed in 1568.

— 1570.

Philippi Theophrasti

liche Tractetlein zur 1.

Paracelsi von

in

et-

Archidoxa gehorig.

Von dem Magneten, vnnd

tugend,

Hohenhaim,

allerley

seiner wunderbarlichen

kranckheiten

sehr

zuge-

Diitzlich

brauchen. 2.

De

occulta Philofophia,

De

Confecrationibus.

darinnen

Coniurationibus.

tractirt

De

wird

Von allerley erscheinungen im schlaff. Von den jrrdischen Geistern oder Schrotlein. Von der Imagination. Von den verborgnen Schatzen. Wie der mensch vom Teuffel bescssen wird. Wie man den bosen Geist von den besessenen ausstreiben

Von dem

De

Caracteribus.

leuten

sol.

Vngewitter.

3. Die recht weiss zu Administrirn die Medicin, von Theophrasti aigner hand gezogen. 4.

Von

vilerley gifftigen Thiern,

nemen, vnd todten

wie

MitRom: Kay: May: freiheit nit Adam Berg.

druckt zu Miinchen, bey 4to.

Signatures

on verso of In this title Iloheiihayin iox

man jhnen das

gifft

sol.

A— 13.

(ff.

35).

nachzudrucken.

Anno

Ge-

m.d.lxx.

Portrait of Paracelsus

Title.

Mook

(No. 83) makes several alterations

Hohenhaim ;

;

adiniitistriren {ox adininisinrn; D


i8

eigner for aigner

;

Thiere for

Thiern

and he omits the

;

date and privilege clause. 64.

— 1570.

Archidoxa D.

Paracelsi

von

gehaimnufs

der

Theophrasti

Philippi

Hohenhaim, zwolff

darin

Biicher,

alle

natur eroffnet, wie die zu anfang des ersten Buchs nach

Auch noch

ordnung verzeichnet.

Von

&

D. lohanne Alberto Vvimpinfeo, Medico

Gedruckt zu Miinchen, bey Adam Berg. Mit Rom Kay May Freyheit nit nach-

Philofopho.

Anno

andere Buchlein,

worden, vnd hiebey neben ordentlich

so darzu gethan Intitulirt.

vier

IT

M.D.LXX.

:

:

:

zudrucken. Title,

4to.

a-g

Mook

(ff.

1

Preface, &c.,

Text: signatures A-Z

8.

ff.

and Wimpinaeus.

Portraits of Paracelsus

20).

(No. 85) writes gehaimnusSy darziigethan in one

word, hiebei ; and omits the privilege clause. date, although he omits

in

it

He

gives the

T j-actetlein,

the Etliche

No. 63,

above. 65.

1

57 1.

De

Spiritibvs

Planetarvm Sive Metallorvm Doctoris

Theophrafti Paracelfi ab

De De De De

Till dura

Hohenheim

phyfica Liber

Gradationibus Liber Cementis Liber

L

:

Eiufdem

Libri III.

I. _

L.

Signis Zodiaci &• eius inystcrijs.

Georg. Phedronis Rhodochcei pcftis Epidemiccs curalio.

Eiufdem Chirurgia minor. Basileae, m.d.lxxi.

Small 4to.

woodcuts.

Signatures, a-t4 or

Though

the tide

is

ff.

76 in

all.

in Latin, the

Curious

book

is

in

German.

Mook

(No. 89) has copied this

title

with what are most

different arbitrary alterations, unless there are issues with

title-pages

:

He

writes

follows contracts the

lib. 3

for Libri IIL,

word Liber

to Lib.

He

and

in

what

gives Gcorgii


19 R/iodacliaci for Rhodoc/uei ; Dasileae he contracts

full;

in

and omits the date.

to Basil., 66.

—

1

57

Oder Die gantze Philosophia klcinen Welt, des von Gott

Astronomia Magna:

1.

sagax

der

vnd

grosscn

vnd bewerten teutschen Philosophi vnd Medici, Philippi Theophrasti Bombast, genannt liocherleuchten, erfahrnen,

Darinn er

Paracelsi magni.

lehrt des gantzen natiirlichen

vnd vnuermogen, audi alle Philosovnd Astronomische geheimnussen der grosscn vnd kleinen Welt, vnd deren rechten branch, vnd missbrauch, Zu dem andern, die Mysteria des Himlischen Liechts, Zu dem dritten, das vermogen des Glaubens, Vnd Liechts vermogen,

phische,

zum

Feyrabend.]

Geister durch den Menschen Truck aussgangen. [Sigismvndvs Mit Rom. Keys. Maiest. gnad vnd freyheit

aufflo. Jar.

m.d.lxxi.

was

vierdten,

Vor

wircken, etc.

die

nie in

Folio in sixes.

Title,

Preface of Paracelsus: in

Preface of Toxites, Privilegium, all

ff.

i6,

not numbered.

Text

165.

ff.

Colophon on f. [166]: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, bey Martin Lechler, in verlegung Hieronymi

Anno

Feyerabends.

The

m.d.lxxi.

by Mock (No. 91) is a travesty of the He omits the word taitsclien before Philosophi,

title

original.

as given

and the whole passage beginning Darinn er lehrt down to wircken,

H6

etc.

also omits from

Sigismvndvs to the end

of the date, instead of which he inserts the colophon (omitting the date) as if it formed part of the title.

The

reason for these changes

especially as

by Mook 67

— 157

(p.

T.

it is

is

to

me

quite unapparcnt,

a chief complaint against other cataloguers

21) that their titles are defective.

Von dem Bad

Gelegen in ober Schwcitz, kremen, vnd wirckung, vrsprung vnd herkommen, Regiment vnd ordinantz. Durch Den

Von

seincn

Pfeffers.

tugenten,


20 hochgelehrten,

viid

erfarnen

Philippum Theophrastum

ad decennium.

CjEfareo

Christian Miiller.

Small 8vo.

baider

Doctorem

artzney

Cum

Paracelsum. Getruckt

zu

Priuilegio

Strassburg,

bey

m.d.lxxi.

Signatures A-D7.

Colophon, beneath a woodcut of a man holding an arrow

Getruckt

:

Christian Miiller.

Mook

zu

Strassburg,

Ck

m.d.lxxi.

am

bey

(No. 94) omits the privilege clause and the date

and says nothing about the device colophon. 68.

Kornniarckt,

— 1573.

In this

title

end and the

at the

he has not changed

Svmmi

Inter

Germanos

Medici

&

Philofophi.

Tomvs

Chirvrgia Magna, in duos tomos digesia.

u.

Bombast Ere-

Philippi Avreoli Theophrasti Paracelsi

mitae,

v to

initial

Priinvs,

continens

De De De

Vvlnerib. et Fradvris.

Tvmoribvs

Nunc

recens

Lib. III. Lib. III.

Vlceribvs. et

Apertvris.

Lib.

VII.

a losqvino Dalhemio Ostofranco Medico

Latinitate donata.

Cum gratia

6-'

Priuilegio Ccefar, Maiestat.

Argentorati.

Small

folio in sixes.

Prefaces, 1

blank.

Ramus De Index

m.d.lxxiii.

Title, Perna's Address, Paracelsus'

Paracelso, in

Sigs.

:

ad aminos fex.

all

ff.

6.

Text pp. 223,

V-X8.

Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi

Svmmi

Philofophi

&

Medici Chyrurgise Magnas Tomvs Secvndvs. Continens De Tumoribus, Puftulis, & Vlceribus Morbi Gallici Lib.

De

X.

Curatione

&

Impofturis Morbi Gallici Lib. octo.

Qyibvs Insvnt Eivsdetn

Authoris Anatomia.

Chyrvrgia

Omnia k losqvino Dalhemio Hietichtavvio Anno Salvtis Ostrofranco Germano Latinitate Donata. Minor,

&^c.

M.D.LXXHI.

Small Sigs.

folio, in

Yy-aaa6.

sixes.

Title leaf,

and

pp. 250.

Index

:


2t

In the full

and

volume Mook (No. loi) writes vulneribus in volume omits the privilege clause. In the second first

he writes VIII. for

which

also Argcntorati Tonivs,

and

octo,

all after

is

Chirurgia for Chyrvrgia, adds

not

Minor,

my

in

copy, omits

all

before

Gfc.

Minor, (5c)._i573. Aureoli Philippi Theop. Paracelsi Chyrvrgia

Qvam

Alias

Bertheoneam

Intitvlavit.

CviEtiam Seqventcs Tractatus acceffertint^eiiisdem

De Apoftematibus, Syronibus, & De cutis apertionibus. De vulnerum & vlcerum curis. De Vermibus, Serpentibus, &c.

authoris.

Nodis.

ac maculis \ natiuitate

ortis.

Ex Versione Gerardi Dorn. Cum Gratia & Priuilegio Ceef. Anno

Salvtis m.d.lxxiii.

Small pp.

5,

folio, in

Tide

sixes.

his

common

practice

and pp. 263.

Argentorati, which for accesserunt

is

not in

my

and Chirurgia

Avrora

Mook

But he

the privilege clause and date.

— 1577.

leaf,

Index,

not numbered.

According to

70.

Maieft.

copy.

(No. 102) omits

inserts the place,

He

writes acessertmt

for Chyrvrgia.

Thesavrvsqve

Philosophorvm,

Theophrafti

Paracelfi, Germani Philofophi, & Medici prae cunctis omnibus accuratifsimi. Accefsit Monarchia Phyfica per Gerardvm Dornevm, in defenfionem Paracelficorum Prin-

cipiorum,

h.

fuo PrÂŁeceptore pofitoruni.

Prseterea

Anatomia

uiua Paracelfi^ qua docet autor prceter fedioiian corporum, ante mortem, paticntibus effe fuccurrendum.

15

\

11.

Basileae.

Small 8vo, pp. 63.

Mook

(No. 125) has acuratissimi ;

and adds apud Qnarinnin, which

is

Basil, for Basileae;

not in

my

copy.

What


:

22

may have

Mook

led

device on the either

side

title

"

make

to

page

Palnia

71.

1

palm

Gvar."

Guarinus not Qiiarinus. No.

a

is

statement

this

that the

is

tree with the

words on

any case the name

In

is

For the English translation see

08 below.

— 1581.

Congeries ParacelsicjB Chemige de Transmvtationibvs Metallorum, ex omnibus quag de his ab ipfo fcripta reperire hactenus.

licuit

Accessit Gcnealogia Mineraliuvi, alq; met-

allorum omnium, eiiifdcm autoris. jjrete.

Small 8vo. Francofvrti

Epistola, Prsefatio, pp.

Title,

On

29-277.

pp.

Gerardo Dorneo

f rancofvrti Apud Andream Wechelum, the last page [278]

Excvdebat

Andr.

is

Text,

1-29.

colophon:

the

Anno

VVechelvs,

inter-

m.d.lxxxi.

Salvtis

M.D.LXXXI.

Mook date,

(No. 134) has copied this correctly, omitting the

and making the usual

was reprinted 1659, vol.

literal alterations.

Theatruin Chemicuin, vol.

in

I.

This tract 1602, 161 3,

and by Manget, Bibliotheca Clicmica Curiosa, 1702,

II.

pp. 423-463.

to

by Mook.

72.

— 1582.

Not one of these

Pandora, Das

ist,

is

referred

Die Edleste Gab Gottes, oder der

Werde vnnd Heilsamme die alten

reprints

Stein der Weisen, mit w^elchem

Philosophi, auch Theophraftus Paracelfus, die

vnuolkomene Metallen, durch gewalt des Fewrs verbessert sampt allerley schadliche vnd vnheilsame Kranckheiten, jnnerlich vnd eusserlich haben vertrieben. Ein Guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber diser Kunst, von seinem Vntergang errettet ist worden, vnnd zu nutz alien Menschen, fiirnemlich den Liebhabern der Paracelsischen Artzney, erst jetz in Truck verfertiget.

Getruckt zu Basel. 8vo.

Woodcuts. Apiario.

and

Title

Anno

preface,

Colophon

:

m.d.lxxxii. ff.

8.

Text, pp. 309.

Curious

Getruckt zu Basel, bey Samuel


I

23

This very rare alchemical treatise

Mook, though there

not mentioned by

is

a copy in the Bodleian Library.

is

1588, however, he quotes an edition of

Under date

Compare

for

877, Nos. 30

and

the authority of Spachius. Bibliographia Paracelsica,

1

it,

on

both editions

and below

37,

No. 116 for the reprint of 1706. 73.

— 1583.

De

Natvrse Lvce Physica, ex Genesi Desvmpta, luxta

fententiam Theophrasti Paraceisi, Gerniani Philofophi ac

Cid annexa

Medici pra cunctis excellentiffimi, Tractatvs. est inodcfta

qiKsdam admoniiio ad

Thomam

Erastvm. Ger-

inanuin etiam Philofophum atqiie Medicum, de retradandis

m

calmnnijs, &' conuitijs vnincrito datis in hicem

Faracclfutn gt* fuos perperam ac per qiiatuor Tomos, De noua Medi-

Gerardo Dorneo autore. Fraiicojo) ti, Apud phorum Coruinum. m.d.lxxxiii.

cina.

et

Small 8vo.

Pp. 431.

Verborvm 62

— eS.

This book Paracelsus

is

Mook

is

Index Rervm

Errata ei verso.

not in Mook's justified in

As

list.

it

excluding

added here because referred to by Watt.

not really by

is

it,

Chrifto-

but

has been

it

See Bibliographia

Paracelsica, 1877, No. 44. 74. -1584.

Avreoli Theophrasti

myfteriis

Commentarij

qudm

tbque

Ex

Paraceisi

A

De fummis

Gerardo Dorn

Naturae

comierfi, niul-

antea fideliter characterifinis 6^ marginalibus

exor/mti, auctique. Basileae,

tres,

Quorum nomina fequens pagella Conn Vvaldkirch,

Officina Pernsea Per

dabit.

cid id

xxciv.

Small 8vo.

Tide,

the verso of last leaf

Epistola

Dedicatoria,

ff.

8.

On

a portrait of Paracelsus— with his left hand on the pommel of his sword. To the left of the face a coat of arms, to the right a symbol. The whole

enclosed I'h.

in

a border, on which

Theoi)lirasti.

Altcrivs

non

is

sit

qvi

Paraceisi.

sws

is

TEta.

esse potest.

printed Svre.

:

Effigies.

47.

Text,

pp

Av

Beneath

:

173 (which


is

a misprint for 147); followed by pp.

not numbered.

Planetarum,

de

fiue

De

:

fignis Zodiaci

Mook (No. 143) gives He includes the mention cases he omits.

occasion

10 of characters,

This volume contains De Spiritibus Occulta Philofophia, De Medicina coelefti,

Why

&

Myfteriis eorum.

this exact,

but omits the date.

of the contents, which in other

has he done so on the present

.''

— 1584-

Commentaria in Archidoxorvm Libros X. D. Doctoris Theophrafti Paracelfi, Magni, Terquemaximi Philofophi

75-

ac Medici pras cunctis excellentiffimi

:

Anted, niinqiiam in

Quibus accefsit Compendium Astronomiae Magnae eiufdem autoris, in amplam Operum eius declaradata.

iiiceni

tionem, etiam

Latinfe

prius

nunquam

Per

editum.

D

Gerardvni Dornevm. Cum locuplete Indice. Cum gratia 6^ primlcgio Cafarea Maieftalis. Francoforti, m.d.lxxxuii.

Small 8vo.

Title, Epistola Dedicatoria,

Contents, in

soria,

all,

rervm ac verborum, L16

Mook

ff.

12.

— Nn;.

Text, pp.

NnS

is

Epistola Cen-

Index

538,

a blank

leaf.

(No. 144) has the inevitable alterations and omis-

From Ctwi to Majestatis and the date are dropped. The name of the place is contracted to Franco/. Useless alteration of punctuation has made a distinct alteration in the sense the full point after editiim Mook omits, making sions

:

:

it

appear as

the

if

Dorn, which

is

work had never before been

not the meaning.

edited

by

There are besides several

unnecessary typographical changes. 76.

— 1589.

Erster Theil Der Bucher vnd Schrifften, des Edlen,

Hochgelehrten vnd Bewehrten Philosophi vnnd Medici, Philippi Theophrasti Bombast von Hohenheim, Paracelsi genannt Jetzt auffs new auss den Originalien, vnd Theo:

phrasti eigner Handschrifft, souiel derselben

gewesen, auffs trewlichst vnd

fleissigst

zubekommen

an tag geben

:

Durch

lohannem Hvservm Brisgoivm Churfurstlichen Colnischen


25

Rhat vnnd Medicvm. In diesem Theil werden begriffon die Bucher, welche von Vrsprung vnd herkommen, aller Kranckheiten handeln in Genere Deren Catalogus nach der Proefation an den Leser y.u finden. Adiunctiis est Index :

Rerum

Vcrborutn accuratifs.

Getruckt zu

6-"

copiofifsimus.

Anno

durch Conrad Waldkirch.

Basel,

M.D.LXXXIX. Portrait,

Title,

4to.

Huser's address to

Archbisliop

Ernst of Cologne, Huser to the Reader, Linck's two poems, Contents, in

pp. 20, not numbered.

all

This

Register, pp. 369-426.

is

Text, pp. 1-368, followed by i leaf with

and shield, and on the reverse a device Lvcerna Pedibvs Meis Verbvm Tvvm. The and the following nine parts are printed in

Paracelsus' epitaph

with motto

:

of this

titles

red and black.

With the exception of one or two very minute

alterations

in spelling

and punctuation, Mock (No. 154) gives

exactly as

it

He

stands.

also gives the contents in detail,

but omits the pagination. 77

this title

,

—1589. Ander Theil Der BUcher vnd Schrifften, Rhat vnnd Medicum as in the preceding, No.

.

.

to

.

Dieser 76. Theil begreifft furnemlich die Schrifften, inn denen die Fundamenta angezeigt werde, auff welchen die Kunst der rechten Artzney stehe,

vnd auss was Buchern dieselbe

Den Catalogum

-gelehrnet werde.

die vierde Pagina anzeigen.

M.D.LXXXIX as in 4to.

Title,

dieser Schrifften wird

Adiutictus est Index

the preceding.

.

.

.

to

No. 76.

Portrait, Contents, pp.

1-4, not numbered. Blank leaf Register not paged, SignaDDd3, on the reverse of which are the epitaph

Text, pp. 5-342. tures

and

XX —

shield.

DDd4

contains the portrait repeated— wanting

in this copy.

Mock

(No.

155)

curtails this

title,

ornitting

all

after

gelehrnet werde, although different from the corresponding .sentence in No. 76.


26 78.

— 1589.

DritterTheil Der Biicher vnd Schrifften, to Medicvm, as in No. 76. Inn diesem Theil werden be.

.

griffen

deren Biicher

.

welche von Vrsprung, Vrsach vnd Heylung der Kranckheiten handeln in Specie. Deren ettliche,

Catalogum werden die sechste vnd siebende Pagina gen.

Adiunctus

Index

est

.

.

.

anzei-

m.d.lxxxix. as in

No. 76. 4to.

Title, Portrait, Verses, Contents,

in all pp. 8.

Text, pp.

420.

Verses by Linck,

HHHij —

Register, Sigs.

XXXij.

Verses by Linck, by Manlius, and the shield,

XXXiij.

Portrait repeated,

XXXiv, with device on

the

and omits

all

reverse.

Mock

(No.

1

56} writes etliche for ettliche^

after in Specie. 79.

— 1589.

Vierdter Theil Der Biicher vnd SchrifTten, auss den Originalien, vnnd Theophrasti eigner Handschrifft to Medicvm, as in No. 76. In diesem Theil .

.

.

.

.

.

werden

gleichsfals,

wie im

Dritten,

solche

Buclier be-

welche von Vrsprung, Vrsach vnnd Heilung der Kranckheiten in Specie handlen Deren Catalogum vnd

griffen,

:

Innhalt die

Index 4to.

.

.

.

Title,

pp. 1-8, not is

4. 5.

vnd

Register,

Pagina anzeigen.

M.D.LXXXIX. as in No. Portrait,

numbered.

Ende des Vierdten

:

Paracelsi

6.

Contents,

Adiunctus

est

76.

Huser

to the

Reader,

Text, 9-417, on reverse of which Theils

Der

Schrifften Theophrasti

Von Vrsprung vnnd Heilung der On the Sigs. GGGgij to TTTtv.

Kranckheiten. reverse,

poem

by Linck, and then a leaf with the epitaph and shield, and The portrait is not repeated. device on the other side.

Mock 80.

(No. 157) omits

— 1589.

Fiinffter

all after

hand/en.

Theil Der Biicher vnd Schrifften, des Edlen,

Hochgelehrten vnd Bevvehrten Philosophi vnd Medici, Wass in diesem Fiinfften to Medicvm as in No. 76. Theil, dessgleichen in dem zugehorigen Appendice, fiir .

.

.

Biicher de Medicina Phyfica l^egriffen, wird auff folgenden


:

AJnach ein ander angezeiget. Verborum accuratifs. ^5^• Jndices Rerum

Paginis ordenlich

tundi flint

Dvo

copiofifs.

Getruckt

.

Errata,

Title), pp. 228.

reverse

Mock

is

a

(No.

ordenlich

poem by

all

pp.

Text,

8.

Appendix (with a contents Index,

leaf.

On

f5)-l5)iv.

the

Linck. for

ordentlich

correction

at angezeiget.

Der Biicher vnd

Theil

Sechster

Medicvm, as

to

i

makes the

158)

and stops

81. -1590.

Catalogus, in

Portrait,

Register, Ts)-g5)iv.

pp. 332.

Appendicis.

m.d.lxxxix.

Title,

4to.

^

prior, huius Partis, pofterior,

:

.

.

(sic)

No.

in

80.

Schrifften

In disem

Tomo

.

.

.

seind be-

griffen solche Biicher, in welchen dess mehrertheils von

Spagyrischer Bereittung Natiirlicher dingen, die Artzney Item, etdiche Alchimistische betreffend, gehandelt wirt.

von der Transmutation der Metallen

Biichlein, so allein

Deren

tractiren.

Index Rerum 6^

zufinden. accuratifs. .

.

.

Catalogus auff folgenden Paginis

aller

Verborum

(5^

locupletifs.

Separatim cum reliquis Habebitvr.

Getruckt

M.D.XC.

4to.

Portrait,

Title,

Contents,

To

the Reader,

in all

Register, kk6)-mm6)iij, followed Text, pp. 440. pp. by a leaf with the portrait and device. 8.

Mook

(No. 159) again writes etliche for ettliche and he

omits the sentence Index... habebitur. 82.

— 1590.

Siebender Theil der Biicher und Schrifften,

Medicvm, as

in

die Biicher, in welchen fiimemlich die Krafft,

vnd Eigenschafften

.

.

.

to

In diesem Theil sind verfasset

No. 80.

Natiirlicher dingen,

Tugenden

auch der selben

Bcreitdungen, betreffent die Artzeney, beschriben werden

Neben Deren

eingemischten aller

verzeichnet. 4to.

sachen

zur

Alchimey

dienstlich.

Catalogus auff folgenden Blettern ordentlich Iiidex

Title,

.

.

.

Portrait,

I'aracclsus, in all pp.

12.

m.d.xc. as in No. 81.

Contents,

Three Addresses by

Text, pp. 439.

The

following


2S

page

blank.

is

of the fourth leaf

Mock

(No.

1

On

Register, signature kk;). is

has

60)

betreffentd for betreffent

the reverse

the device.

Bereithungen

and stops

for

Bereitdungen,

at dieiistlicJi.

83-— 1590- Achter

Theil der Biicher vnd Schrifften, to Medicvm, as in No. 80. In disem Tomo (welcher der Erste vnter den Philosophischen) werden seiche Biicher

begriffen, darinnen fiirnemlich die Philosophia

&

tionibus

Index

verzeichnet.

all

epitaph,

Mook 84.

.

de Genera-

pp.

6,

the

portrait

m.d.xc, as in No. 81.

Verses by Linck, Contents, Preface,

by one

and on

wanting in

(No. 161) stops at

following page

363,

pp.

followed

shield, is

auff folgenden Blettern ordendich .

Text,

12.

pp.

Register,

The

.

Title, Portrait,

4to. in

.

Fructibus quatuor Elementorvm beschrieben

Deren Catalogus

wirdt.

.

.

the

blank.

containing the

leaf

reverse

the

device.

this copy.

ivirdi.

— 1590-91.

Neundter Theil Der Biicher vnd Schrifften to Diser Tomvs (welcher der Medicvm, as in No. 80. Ander vnter den Philosophischen) begreifft solche Biicher, darinnen allerley Natiirlicher vnd Vbernatiirlicher Heymligkeiten Vrsprung, Vrsach, Wesen vnd Eigenschafft, griindtlich vnd warhafftig beschriben werden Deren Verzeichnuss .

.

.

:

auff folgenden Blettern zu finden. .

.

.

Habebitvr.

.

.

.

Index

.

as in No. 81.

.

.

Separatim

Anno

m.d.xci

(sic).

4to.

pp.

pp.

6. 7,

Title,

Portrait,

Contents,

To

the Reader,

Text, pp. 459, following page blank.

and on the following page the

in all

Register

device.

Mook (No. 162) has Heymlichkciten and He has not noted the misprint in the date — if

wahrhafflig. it

be actually

a misprint, and he stops at werden. 85.

— 1590.

Zehender Theil Der Biicher vnd

Medicvm, as

in

No. 80.

Schrifften

...

to

Dieser Theil (welcher der Drilte


:

I

29 vnter den Philosophischen Sclirifflen) begreifft fiirnemlich

das

Werck Theophrasti, Philosophia Sagax, oder Magna genannt Sampt ettlichen andern

treffliche

Astronoinia

:

einem Appendice, wie auff folgenden m.d.xc. as in No. 84. Index Paginis verzeichnet. Opufculis,

vnd

.

Title, Portrait,

4to.

.

Contents, verses by Linck, in

all

Appendix Text, pp. 491, following page blank. Title), pp. 275, following page blank.

pp. 8.

Contents

(with

Register, pp. tract

.

then a blank

6,

Fascicvlvs

:

After this comes a

leaf.

Astrologicarvm

Prognosticationvm

pp. 106.

Mook (No. 163) again writes etlicheii for ettlicJien. may be remarked that to complete this copy of the

first

wanted the

first

collected edition of Paracelsus'

works

is

part of the Chirurgical works, printed 1

59 1, which was

86.

— 1596. the

A

all

It

by Waldkirch

in

that appeared in this form.

hundred and foiireteene Experiments and Cures of

famous

Phyfitian

Philippus Aiircolus

Theophrastus

Faracelfus ;

Tranflaied out of the Germane tongue into

the Latin.

Whereunto

is

added

certaine excellent

B. G. a Portu Aquitauo.

profitable ivorkes by

and

Alfo certaine

and Spagericke Antidotai'ie for Gunne-

Secrets of Ifacke Hollandus concerning the Vegetall

Animall worke.

A-lfo the

fhot of lofephus

London Printed by

Vallentine

at the figne of the white

Small 4to.

Text

Not

in

:

Title,

pp. 82.

which see below.

John Hester.

Sims dwelling on Adlinghill

Swanne. epistle,

1596.

preface,

&c.

A-B

(ff.

8).

Title enclosed in a border.

He knew

Mook.

Collected by

Quirfitamis.

The

only the

1652

reprint,

for

present edition was quoted formerly

{Bibliographia Paracelsica, 1877, No. 15) from Cooper. is

one of the rarest of these English

copy

in

the British

Museum; how

did

tracts.

Mook

There miss

it.-*

It is

a


30 87.

— T597-

Theophrastisch Vade Mecvm.

Das ist Etliche sehr von der warhafftigen bereittung vnd rechtem gebrauch der Chymischen Medicamenten. Uurch den Achtbarn vnd Hochgelarten Herrn, Bemhardura G. niitzliche

Tractat,

Penotum,

h.

portu

:

Marije, Aquitanum, beider Artzney

S.

D. zu Franckenthal, erstlich in Latein heraus geben.

Itzo

aber alien Kunstliebende Teutschen zu sonderbarem nutz in vnsere vernemliche

Muttersprache

transferiret,

Den Inhalt aller Vnd mit einem

lohannem Hippodamum, Cherufcum. Tractatlein, findet

man nach

ordentlichen Register zu

der Vorrede,

Ende

gesetzet.

Zu Magdeburgk bey Johan Francken, Anno

&

Cvm

Gratia

4to.

Title, Preface, Contents,

would appear as

book and

in

1597

this at

Mook

if

ff.

8.

Text, pp. 278

Register, Hh-Ii4.

[rais-

Errata, Ii4 verso-

black.

there were distinct issues of this

one at Eisleben, described by

;

1597.

Privilegio, &c.

numbered for 240]. Kk2. Title red and It

Diirch

Magdeburg.

Mook (No.

168),

the

title.

There are differences

in

has rechten for rechtem, so7iderem for sonderbarem, All after this

Jetzo for Itzo, gesetzt for gesetzet.

by Mook, colophon

as :

Hornigk.

"

it

was wanting

in

his copy,

is

omitted

but he gives a

Gedruckt zu Eissleben durch Bartholomauni

Im

Jahr 1597."

There

is

nothing of this

in the

copy before me. 88.

— 1599.

Avrevm Vellvs, Oder Giildin Schatz vnd Kunstkammcr: Darinnen der aller fiirnembsten, fiirtreffenlichsten,

ausserlesenesten,

herrlichsten

vnd

bewehrtesten

Auctorum Schrifften Bucher, aus dem gar vhralten Schatz Reliquien der vberbliebnen, verborgenen, hinterhaltenen Chaldtevnd Monumenten der AEgyptiorum, Arabum, Dem Von Weysen. ornm, & Affyriorum, Konigen vnd

bewehrten PhiloEdlen, Hocherleuchten, fiirtreffenlichen, Philosophi grossen des (so Salomone Trismosino

sopho


31

vnd Medici Theoplirafti

gewesen)

Prceceptor

Paracelfi

sonderbare vnterschiedliche Tractetlein disponirt, vnd Sampt andern Philosophischen, in das Deutsch gebracht. Scribenten sonderbaren Tractetlein, alter vnnd newer der alles ziiuor niemalen, weder erhort noch geselien, wie in

Durch einen der Kunst Liebhabern mit grossem Kosten, Miihe, Arbeit vnd Gefahr, die Originalia vnd Handschrifften zusammen gebracht, zuuerstehen

Catalogus

vnd

aufis trevvlichst

gibt.

vnd

fleissigst

an tag geben.

Gedruckt zu Rorschach

Erstlich

am Bodensee, Anno

M.D.XCIX.

red

Small 8vo. Title, Portrait of Paracelsus

on

and black;

the

Vorrede, Contents, ai-7

;

;

reverse,

a8 blank.

Text, pp. 1-208 (Imperfect).

vnd KunstDarinn erstlich des Edlen Tractatvs II. kammer. Hochgelehrten vnd bewehrten Philosophi vnd Medici, Philippi Theophrasti, Bombasti von Hohenheim, Paracelsi genant, Fiirnembste Chymische Schrifften, Tincturen vnd Process, so bisshero in keinem Truck noch nie gesehen. Dann zum andern, dess auch Edlen vnnd furtreffenAvrei Velleris Oder

Der

lichen Philosophi, Bartholomjei

so

viel

Korndorffers

gefiigt,

gedruckt im F. Gottshaus

Erstlich

Schrifften,

an jetzo beyhanden gewesen, vnd sich

deren

zusammen der Ordnung halber in ein Volumen gebracht. hoff,

Schatz

Giildin

Rorschach

am

Small 8vo. Title.

aus den Originalien

S.

Gallen Reichs-

Bodensee. Text, pp. 158 (Imperfect?). in the text.

With

woodcuts of apparatus

This

is

not mentioned by Mock.

work which appeared cclsica,

89.

1877, No.

— 1600. from

The

4to

in

1

598 {Bibliographia Para-

and which Mook knew imperfectly.

Prognosiicatio

the

printed,

2),

in

It is a reprint of a

German

into

(Mook Nos. Latin

by

9 and 10) translated David Schram, was

1600, in the Lutiones Mcmorabiles of Johannes


3? Wollius,

at

Tomus Seciindus, p. 484. Tlie reversed and are more carefully finished.

Lauingen,

woodcuts are

all

This reprint of the Prognosticatio

Mook.

See No. 49 above.

— 1602.

90.

not referred to by

is

Congeries ParacelsicEe Chemise de Transmvtationibvs

De

Metallorum.

Genealogia Mineralivm ex Paracelso.

Theatrvm Chemicvni, Ursellis, mdcii. Volvmen Primvra. 8vo, pp. 557-646 and 646-671. Reprinted

in

This reprint of No. 71, above,

See also Nos. 91.

— 1603.

and

98, 109,

not quoted by Mook.

is

115.

Avreoli Phihppi Theophrasti Bombasts von

heim

Paracelsi,

sten,

Weitberiimbtesten

vnd

Biicher

Edlen,

des

Schrififten,

Hochgelehrten,

Philofophi

Hohen-

Fiirtrefflich-

vnd Medici Opera Handt gebracht:

so viel deren zur

vnd vor wenig Jahren, mit vnd eigener hangesciiriebenen

{sic)

auss jhren glaubwiirdigen

Originalien collacioniert, ver-

vnd durch loannem Hvservm Brisgoivm in zelien vnterschiedliche Theil, in Truck gegeben. Jetzt von newem mit vleiss vbersehen, auch mit etlichen bisshero vnbekandten Tractaten gemehrt, vnd vrab mehrer Bequemligkeit willen, in zwen vnterschiedliche Tomes vnd Theil gebracht, deren Begriff vnd Ordnung, nach der Vorrede zu finden, sampt beyder Theilen vleissigen vnd gliechen, verbessert

volkommeneh

:

Registern.

Strassburg, In verlegung Lazari Zetzners Buchhandlers.

Anno

M.DCiii.

Folio

Huser 12.

in

Text, pp.

Title

Title,

sixes.

Huser

to

Archbishop Ernst,

to the Reader, Linck's verses, Contents, in all pp.

red

1

127.

and

Register,

black,

BBbvj

inside

an

verso-FFfviij.

elaborate

woodcut

border, with a portrait of Paracelsus at the top, Virgilius

and Hermes

right

and

left,

four goddesses of the Arts,

Cupids, architectural ornaments,

Mook

and chemical apparatus.

(No. 170) has weitberiihmtestoi, handgeschricbeiic,


:

t

33

Hnseriitn Brisgoiiini, and fleissigeu, and he omits the words

vmb mehrer

Beqiiotiligkeit

ivilleji,

and v liters chiedliche,

for

no apparent reason.

— 1603.

92.

Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von

Hohen-

Paracelsi, des Edlen, hochgelehrten fiirtreffenlichsten

heim

vnd

vnd Medici Opera Bucher deren zur Hand gebracht vnd vor

Philofophi

weitberiihmtesten

Schrifften, so viel

:

wenig Jahren, mit vnd auss jhren glaubwiirdigen eigner

Handgeschriebenen Originalien

vnd

verglichen,

collationiert,

verbessert, &:c.

Darinnen die Magischen vnd Astrolo-

Ander Theyl.

gischen Bucher, sampt jhren Anhangen vnd Stiicken, auch

von dem begriffen,

Stein handlende Tractatus, Fornen mit einem kurtzen Begriff vnd

Philosophischen &c.

Ordnung dieses Theyls Bucher, vnd derselben Innhalt Hinden aber mit einem durchauss voUkommenen Register verniehret.

Strassburg, In verlegung Lazari Zetzners

Anno Domini

Fly leaf with device, Tide and Contents,

Folio, in sixes.

by a blank page.

in all pp. 9, followed

(No. 171) omits most of the portion before

Theyl, although

93.

Text, pp. 691. last page blank.

not numbered,

gister, pp. 12,

Mook

Buchhandlers.

cloloclll.

— 1603.

it

varies in spelling

Nobilis,

Clarissimi

Ac

from that

in

the

Re-

Ander

first part.

Philofophi 6^

probaiiffimi

Dn. Avreoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombast, Ab Hohenheim, Dicti Paracelsi, Operum Medico-Chimicorum

Medici,

Sive Paradoxorvm, Ivatine

factus,

&

Tomus Genuinus

in

vfura

.

.

.

Recenter

&

Veteris

in Nobili

Franco-

Affeclarum Nouse

Philofophije foras datus,

A

Collegio

fiirto. I.

Amio

Mufarum Palthenianarum m.dc.iii.

Tomus Genuinus Curatione

Primus.

Morborum

Age?is de Can/sis, Origine ac in genere.


34 4to.

Title,

Dedication,

Verses,

Contents,

4 leaves.

Text, pp. 303.

Tomus Genuinus

II.

quibus verce

Secundus.

6- ex quibus folis 4to.

Tomus

4 to.

Tertius Genuinus.

is

Morbonnn

Agens de Caufsis,

Quartus.

Agens itidem vt Tertius de

Caufsis, Origine ac Curatiofie

is

Morborum

iti

Dedication, Contents, 2 leaves.

Title,

226, which

Text, pp.

a misprint for 355.

Tomus Genuinus

4to.

Origijic

in fpecie.

Dedication, Contents, 2 leaves.

Title,

203, which

a misprint for 326.

Tomus Genuinus

V.

fiiperftruda,

ilia addifci pofsit.

Text, pp. 272.

ac Curatione

IV.

Ars

Dedication, Verses by Linck, Contents, 4

Title,

leaves. III.

Tradens fundamenta,

genuince Medicina

Quintus.

fpecie.

Text, pp.

2 blank.

Agens de Libris ad Medi-

cinam Phyftcam fpectantibus. Title, Dedication, Preface, Acrostic,

4to.

Paracelsus, Contents, 4 leaves. Sigs.

Mnimm — Ssss2.

What may in

be called the general part of the

Mook

is

This section, bound

complete

(No.

has 172)

in itself.

The

The

suit his convenience.

mainder of the translation appeared it.

title

details of punctuation, but the special part of

each has been altered to

seen

Index,

Analytical Scheme, 2 leaves.

been reproduced correctly enough by except

Laudation of

Text, pp. 272.

in

in

1605

;

I

re-

have not

one volume and indexed,

translation

is

made from

Huser's

edition 1589-90. g^.

— 1608.

Rosarivm Novvm Olympicvm Et Benedictvm. Das Ein newer Gebenedeyter Philosophischer Rosengart, ist Darinnen vom aller weisesten Konig Salomone, H. Salo:

mone

H. Trithemio, D. Theophrasto, &c. wie der Gebenedeyte Guldene Zweig, vnnd

Trismosino,

gewiesen wirdt, Tincturschatz,

vom

vnverwelcklichen Orientalischen

Baum


35

ab/ubrechen der Hefperidum.vormittels Gottlicher Gnaden, vud (sic) zu erlangen sey Allen vnd jeden Filiis doctrinse gutem Hermeticse, vnd D. Theophrafticae Liebhabern zu :

trewlich eroffnet in lambilicluis Sole, vel

Devs

ab

Pars Prima.

Quicquid habemus boni, habeinus

(sic).

per

ipfo, vel

Coelo

in

zwen Theilen.

eft,

h.

alia.

revelans myfteria profunda

&

abfcon-

dita.

Per Benedictvm Figvlvm

Poetam

L.

C.

Theologum

;

;

Theofophum

Medicum Eremitam. T. M. legung des Autoris, Anno 1608.

Francum

;

Philofophum

;

Vtenhoviatem, ;

Getruckt zu Basel, in ver-

and black. Preface, pp. [9]. Text, I p. not numbered and pp. 83. In Rosarii Novi Olympici et Benedicti, Pars Altera Venturas sich haltent ein Buch mit 32. Capiteln, Laurentii Auss dem Latein vertiert Veneti, Medicinae Doctoris, &c vnnd trewlich verdolmetschet, in vnser Teutschen Sprach Small

red

Tide,

4to.

:

vor nie geschen,

De Lapide

Benedicto Philofophorum, &c.

Interprde Benedicto Kgulo, Vtenhoviate, Franco, Poeta L. C.

Theologo; Theofopho; Philofopho, Medico, Eremita.

D. T. P. D. G. N.

Getruckt zu

Basel,

BeneDICtI Regis Small 4to.

vnd 95.

into

first iiiid,

— 1608.

Maglftrl Gratlae

and Preface,

Title

Text, pp. 117.

page.

In the

iS^

Mock

part

verlegung des

in

Index, pp.

&

pp. 2,

Avtoris.

bonltatis, &c.

and a blank

15,

and a blank page.

(No. 183) corrects the misprint

and omits the quotation from lamblichus.

La Grand

Chirvrgie de Philippe Aoreole Theophraste

Paracelse grand Medecin

&

Philofophe Allemand, Iradinie

En Francois, De la verjion Laiinede lofquin d'Al/iem d' OJtofranc,

&=

vifiter

les

Medecin

illuftree d^a/nples annotations, aiiec figures

de certains injtrnmens propres ronipus,

Anno

pour remettre

tes

nietnbres

contenir cstans rends en forte gu'on les puiffe

chacun tour, fans qut fos fe defplace.

Dariot Medecin

Beaune.

Par M. Clavde


36 Plus vn difcours de

la

goutte

&

caufes d'icelle, auec fa

guerifon.

Item

III.

Traittez de la preparation des medicamens,

auec vne table pour recueil,

compofition

&

A

Troisiesme Edition.

du temps propre au

I'intelligence

garde des herbes,

fruits

&

femences.

Montbeliart, par laqves Foillet.

cId Io Cviii. 8vo.

blank

Dedication,

Title,

Preface,

ff.

leaf.

8

Text,

;

De

la

pp.

To 280

Reader, Paracelsus'

the

Indices

;

:

leaves,

3

i

Goutte, pp. 51, including the separate

Trois Discours, pp. 162 (misprint for 191), including the separate title. title.

Mook (No. 186) has made a sweeping curtailment title. He writes Philosoph, mombres, quon for qiion and omits

original, sentences.

but

from Plus

discours

tin

date which he so often omits

in the

down

is

to

inserted,

Arabic numerals, 1608, though the original

in

Roman 96.

The

all

of this

is

in

numerals, which he uses elsewhere, on occasion.

— 1608. De

Pandora Magnalium Naturalium Aurea

et Benedicta,

Benedicto Lapidis Philofoph. Myfterio. Darinnen Apo-

calypsis

Des Hocherleuchten Aegyptischen Konigs vnd

Philosophi, Hermetis Trismegisti

;

von vnferm Teutschen

Hermete, dem Edlen, Hochthewrem Monarchen vnd Philosopho Trifmegifto, A. Ph. Theophrasto Paracelfo &c. Verdolmetschet

:

wie

Auch Tinctura Phyficorum

Para-

Schonen Erklerung des Auch Edlen vnd Hocherfahrnen Philofophi, Alexandri von Siichten, Utrijusque Medicine D. Sampt Seiner Al. V. S. angehengten 3. celfica, rait einer

Vnderschiedlichen Tractetlein, so vor nie gesehen worden,

wie auch Anderen Ejufdem materiae Corollariis wie sie nach der Vorredt Specifiret werden Allen Filiis Doctrinal :

Hermeticas Zu nutz vnd gutem Jetzo Publiciret.

Benedictum Figulum Utenhoviatem P. M. E. D. T. P. D. G. N. ;

;

Durch

Fr: P. L. C. T. T.


37

Getruckt zu Strassburg, inn Verlegung Lazari Zetzeners 1608.

Errata, p.

Mook

Text, pp. 292.

Title, Preface, in all pp. 32.

Small 8vo.

and 3 blank pages.

r,

does not mention this work of Benedictus Figulus,

though he has quoted others (Nos. 94 and

113).

Chymio(J7._i6i3. Solis e Pvteo Emergentis sive Dissertationis Chymua In quibus totius Operationis technica. Libri Tres. Lapidis Philosophici, 6" nodus Materia vidhodus Fradica ; :

{s\c)foliiendi eius, operandigite, vt

6- Claris opirum Faraceisi,

qua abftrufa explicantur deficientia fupplenttir. Cum prseAuthore loanne fatione Chymiae Veritatem afferente. Impenfis Antonij Hunimij.

Francofvrti.

Title, Dedication,

Small 4to. in all pp. 23,

pp. 31,

and

border to part

L

and

i

blank.

blank.

I

and

title,

The

and Prefatory

13.

Engraved and apparatus in

Liber Tertius, pp. 24.

woodcuts of furnaces

(p. 101,

Clavisoperum Faraceisi.

Bemerkung

Gescliichte der menschlicheti NarrJieit^

— 16

Dissertation,

Liber Secvndvs,

Text, pp. 80.

third part contains the

Quoted by Mook

98.

m.d.cxiii.

Liber primus,

Rhenano, Medico.

a),

VIL

p.

from Adelung, 363, No. 93.

Congeries Paracelsicae Chemise de Transmutationibus

Metallorum.

Reprinted

De in

Genealogia Mineralivm ex Paracelso.

Theatrvm Chemicvm, Volvmen Primvm. 8vo, pp. 533-619, and 619-644.

Argentorati, m.dc.xiu.

This reprint of Dorn's collection (see above No. 71) not referred to by Mook.

Compare

also Nos. 90, 109,

is

and

11599.

— 16

18.

Philosophia Mystica, Darinn begriffen Eilffvnterschid-

ene Theologico-Philofophische, doch teutsche Tractatlein,

zum

theil

auss Theophrafti Paracelfi,

zum

theil

auch M.

Valentini VVeigelii, gewesenen Pfarrherrn zu Iscopaw, biss-

hero verborgenen manufcriptis der Theosophischen Warheit


38

An

liebhabern.

jtzo in

zweyen Theilen zum

Vorscliub, beyde Liecliter, der

Christliclien

Gnaden vnd der Natur,

in

vns zuerwecken, in offenen Truck gegeben. Deren Titul vnd Nahmen, wie ein jedes insonderheit von den Authoribus selbst genennet, die nachfolgende seite zeigen wirdt.

Getruckt zur Newstadt, vnd zu finden bey Lucas Jenis, Buchhandler. Ajiho m.dc.xvui. Small

Mook

Pp. 272.

4to.

as he seenns capable for

Valentini,

Deren Titul

of,

to zeigen wirdt,

Mook

;

homine

lesu,

Christo

Danielem Prophetam

1

00.

— 16

is

1

and reads zu Newstadt

name

:

De

Pcenitentiis

;

Astro-

Theologia Cabalistica de perfecto et

contra

Commentarius

;

Mook

respecting which

;

in

says that

decidedly genuine. Theophrastische Practica, Das

8.

for

gives the contents of this collection.

nomia Olympi novi

the third

title

he reads Valentin

but, nevertheless,

tracts bear Paracelsus'

in

copy of the

as correct a

Iscogaw for Iscopaw, omits the sentence

zur Newstadt.

Four

made

(No. 194) has

ist,

Ausserlesene Tlieo-

phrastische Medicamenta, beneben eigentlicher Beschreib-

Auch richtigem Nutz vnd Geung derer Prseparation Herren, Gerhard Dorn, in Lateinbrauch, Weyland durch ischer Spraclie bischrieben, Ins Teutsch versetzt, vnd nunmehr in Druck befordert Durch Michaelem Horingium :

Zittavienfem, Medic. Practicum zu Hall.

Gedruckt bey Peter Schmidt, In vorlegung Michael Oelschlagers.

Small 8vo.

Av,

p.

I

Anno

(?)

Title,

and ends

Register Ji

iij

p.

mdcxviii.

Vorrede, &c., Ai 491, which

is

iiij.

Text begins

a misprint for 492.

(?)

viij.

Not given by Mook. 101.

— 1620. the

In this year was published, Reformir-Spiegel

dcs

in

weltliihcn

a small 4to volume,

B apsis,

vh

-wa/irai


39 Antichrist zu

two

Rom, by Joannes De

parts, the first

Among

figures

is

in

and emblems, with

these are reproductions: ist,

of the Progiiosticatio (No. 49 above), pp. 45-60

(Mook, No.

and which are contained

;

and, 2nd,

44, which were No. 97), (Mook, 1572 the Appendix to Th. x. of

of the so-called Nurnberg figures, pp. printed in 1569

It

of which contains a short history of the

papacy; the second, magical their explanations.

Hyperiis.

i

70), in

in

Huser's edition (No. 85 above).

Mook

has overlooked

this reprint.

102.

— 1623.

Nvclevs Sophicvs, oder Ausslegung

Phyficorum Theophrafti Paracelfi.

in

Tincturam

Darinnen die rechte

wahre Materia oder fubiectum Philofophorum Catholicum, auch dess gantzen Wercks, so wol der alten Philosophen, als dess

Theophrafti newe corrigirte, rechte vnd eigentliche

Sampt einem andern vnd Weise vom lapide Philofophorum beschrieben, vnd den Veris Chymite ftudiofis zu gutem herfiir geben Durch Liberivm BenePraeparation

sehr

gezeiget

niitzlichen

wird.

Tractatlein

Cabalistischer

dictvm.

Franckfurt

am Mayn,

bey Lvcas Jennis zu finden.

Im

Jahr M.DC.xxiii.

Small 8vo.

Pp. 116.

Not given by Mook. 103.

— 1633.

Princelijck Ghefchenck,

Of Tractaet der Medicynen.

In

't welck Natuerlijck en grondich de Loflijcke en wytberoemde Konft van Ghenefinghe, de krachten van alle Cruyderen ende ghevvaffen, als oock Gommen, Herfen, Olyen, Extracten, Wateren, gheene uyt-ghefondert. Mitfgaeders de Compofitien aller Medicamenten, en de Remedien teghens alle Krancheden, en Fenynen, die

het Menfchelicke gheflacht voorvallen, verhaelt vverden, en by experientie goedt bevonden zyn. Hier is een

Tractaet van de Alchymie voor de beminders Theophrasti Paracelsi by ghevoeght. Eerft befchreven Door den

Hoogh-gheleerden ende Experten Medicijn Nicolaes van


40 Halteren, Dienaer des Godtlicken vvoorts binnen Hornaer.

Ende nu Tot eyghen kosten in 't licht ghebratht {sic) door lohannem \ Porta. t' Amstelredam, By Ian Evertfz. Cloppenborch, Boeckvercooper op 't Water in den vergulden Bybelj tegen over te Cooren-Beurs, 1623 (1633). Small 4to.

The as

if

date

Title, Epistle,

may have

ff.

Text,- pp. 190.

4.

been originally 1623, but the

a 3 had been printed over

Mook

it.

gives

2 looks

under

it

1623.

The is

so

reproduction of the whole characteristic

mechanical tion,

and

though

of

the author's

difficult

—work

illustrates so well his

it

title

by Mook (No. 205) incapacity

as

it

the

of accurate transcrip-

how

views as to

should be recorded for bibliographic purposes that it

for

a

I

title

quote

stands. Princelyk Gheschenck,

Of Tractaet der Medicynen.

'tweick Naturlijck en grondich etc.

Hier

is

In

een Tractaet

van de Alchymie voor de beminders Theophrasti Paracelsi

Door den Hooghgheleerden ende Experten Medicijn Nicolaes van Halteren, Ende nu Tot eyghen kosten in t' licht ghebracht, door Johannem a Porta t' Amsterdam By Jan Evertsz Cloppenborch, bij

ghevoegt. Eerst beschreven

Excusing the part that

is

omitted, comparison of the two

versions will reveal the kind of inaccuracies which pervade

almost every 104.

title

as copied

by Mook.

— 1644. Da

Theatro D'Arcani Del Medico Lodovico Locatelli Bergamo ; Nel Qvale Si Tratta Dell' Arte Chimica, &

Con gli Afforifnii d'Ippocrate Covitnaitati da Paraccljo, 6^ L'efpofitione d'alcune Cifre, & Caratteri ofcuri de Filofofi, Con Dve Tavole Vna de Capitoli, & fuoi

Arcani.

I'altra

delle

EGcell"'"

cofe

piu

notabili.

Con

Privilegio

Senato Di Milano, per Anni dodeci

futuri.

Dell'

In


41

Con

liceiiza

Printed

Title,

Milano, Per Gio. Pietro Ramellati, m.dc.xliv. Supcriori.

lie

Engraved

8vo.

Title,

Woodcut

Title,

License, Dedication, Preface, Verses, Table of Chapters, Index, &c., Text, pp. 456. in all pp. 34, not numbered. and the woodengraved the Both pp. 24, not numbered. cut title contain a full-length portrait of Paracelsus.

This

is

an earlier edition of the work already described

{BibliographicL Paracelsica, 1877,

This edition also 105.

is

No,

9),

under date 1667.

not mentioned by Mock.

— 1652.

Three Exact Pieces Of Leonard Phioravant Knight, and Doctor in Physick, Viz. His Rationall Secrets, and Together with a Chirurgery, Reviewed and Revived.

Book

the

of

Practifes

Whereunto

Faculties.

And

Experiments

of Excellent

out of

Secrets,

Ex])ert

feverall

Collected

men

Annexed Paracelsus

is

in

both

his

One

With certain Excellent Works of B. G. a Fortu Aquitatio. Alfo Ifaac Hoiiandus his Secrets concerning his Vegetall and Animal! Work. With Qiiercetaniis his Spagyrick Antidotary for Gun-Shot. London, Printed by G. Dawfnn, and are to be fold by hundred and fourteen Experiments

:

Wiiliam Neaiatid, at his Shop at the Sign of the Crown in Duck-iane, 1652.

Small 4to. [12] 75.

Mook

[i

pp. [8]

t6

180.

[2].

[6]

106.

[10] 92

(No. 214) gives this almost correctly, but omits

after Nealand.

j

blank.]

This

is

all

the reprint of the edition of 1596,

already described, No. 86, above. 106.

— 1652-53. grapliia

Under

this

Faraceisica,

date

I

1877,

described

No.

4)

formerly

{Biblio-

Johnson's

Lixicon

and referred to the later reprint of 1660 as containing a supplement of words from Paracelsus and C/iyinicum,

other

writers

extracts about

previously

omitted,

Paracelsus'

life.

together with I

certain

have recently ascer-


42 tained from an actual copy that this entire supplement

appeared

in 1653,

uniform with the Lexicon.

however always accompany

it,

It does not have seen two copies

for I

of the Lexicon without the second part.

The

of this edition of the second part

title

the same

is

as that of the 1660 edition already given, except for one

or two changes in spelling, and the collation Preface,

Title,

pp.

6 leaves.

— 1658.

Errata,

Imprimatur,

i leaf.

Et PhilosopM Opera Omnia

Medici

Principis,

Emendatissima, tiffimfe

coUata

:

Ad Germanica & Variis tractatibus

locupletata

indicatur,

leaf.

Bombast ab HohenChemicort'imque

Medico-Chemico-Chirvrgica,

inde diligentia conquifitis, vt tione

i

Celeberrimi,

Editio Novissima

Volvminibvs Coinprehema.

Tribvs

in

&

fumma

opufculis

hinc

Voluminis Primi PrsefaIndicibusq

:

Et

Latina exemplaria accura-

exactiffimis

;

inftructa.

Volvmen Primvm, Opera Medica Sumptibus

Genevce,

loan.

Cvm

m.dc.uix.

Tournes. Folio

in

sixes.

compleciens.

Portrait,

Index, pp. 39,

pp. S28.

Avreoli

Philippi

Hohenheim

Medici

corimque Principis,

Chemica

Theophrasti

Et

De

Samuelis

Epistle,

Title,

blank.

I

&

Antonij,

Privilegio.

Preface, Severinus' Epistle, Contents, in

all

pp. 34.

Title red

Paracelsi

Philosophi

Bitiskius'

and

Text,

black.

Bombast ab

Celcberrimi

Cheini-

Operum Volvmen Secvndvm Opera

et PhilosophicaComplectens,/'r^s/«;/w//^',Z/i5wrz7«

Elencho

Indice generali inftructum.

Geneva,

....

Privilegio.

Foho.

:

Lexicon Chymical characters,

Blank Leaf.

pp. 9-86.

Avr. Philip. Theoph. Paracelsi

heim,

as follows

is

Lexicon Chymicum,

4 leaves.

Extracts about Paracelsus, 8 leaves.

1-8.

Chymicum,

107.

Verses,

Title, Bitiskius' Preface, Contents, in all pp. 22.

Text, pp. 718.

Index, pp. 32, 2 blank.

Title red

and

black.

Avr. Philip. Theoph.

.

.

.

Operum Volvmen Tertivm,


43

Duabus

Complectens,

Opera

Chirvrgica

Sectionibus

Qvarvin Prior Chirvrgiam Magnani, Posterior

diftincta,

Bertheoneam fine Chirvrgiam Minorem cum Libris Extat In Vtramqve Prasfatio, fingula; adiedis contind.

verb

Geneva,

.

Contents, &c.,

Index, pp. 27,

Bertheonea, I

funt

inftructae.

red and black, Bitiskius' Preface, Para-

Prefaces,

pp. 212.

generali

Indice

Privilegio.

.

.

Title,

Folio. celsus'

&

Elencho

Libroruni

pp.

I

all

Text,

12.

pp.

blank.

119,

[4],

in

i

Index,

blank.

pp.

7,

Testamentum, and other miscellaneous matter, this volume concludes followed by the epitaph

blank.

pp.

1 1,

;

Roche Le

Didionariolvm Paracelsicvm, pp. 13-18, followed by a blank leaf

with

Baillif's

Mock (No. 221) quotes the title of the first volume only. He stops at conqtiisiiis and puts etc. for what follows down to complectens. 108.

— 1659.

Paracelsus His Aurora,

As

phers.

The

alfo

fcribing the matter of,

versal Tincture.

J.

&

Treafure of the Philoso-

Water-Stone of The Wife

and manner how

Faithjully Englifhed.

Men

;

De-

to attain the uni-

And

Publif hed by

H. Oxon.

be fold

at

London, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to the Black Sprcd Eagle, at the Weft end oi Pauls,

1659.

i2mo.

Title,

For the

original, see

it,

361, No. 77). lias

Mook

There

missed

is

it }

[3.]

was written

in the

I

knew

Bodleian Catalogue

{BibliograpJiia Paracelsica, 1877, Nos. 17

1659) mentions

Text, pp.

by Cooper's and Watt's references

and by there being a copy

(p. 113,

ff.4.

No. 70 above.

the previous part of the review

of this translation only to

the Reader, Errata,

Followed by a List of Books, pp.

229.

When

To

it

and

40).

Mook

on Adelung's authority (VII.

a copy in the British

Museum.

p.

How


44

— 1659.

log.

Congeries Paracelsicae Chemiae

De Genealogia

ibus Metallorum.

De

Transmutation-

Mineralium en Paracelso.

Reprinted in Theatrum Chemicum, Volumen Primum. Argentorati,

Compare Nos. reprint 1:0.

is

m.dc.lix. 71, 90,

8vo,

491-568 and 568-591.

pp.

98 and 115.

Like the others

this

not mentioned by Mook.

— 1676.

Magnalia Medico-Chymica, Oder Die hochste Artz-

ney- und Feurkiinstige Geheimnisse, Wie nemlich mit

&

Circulate majori curiali,

zum

und

minori oder

dem

dem

Univerfal aceto mer-

fpiritu vini tartarifato die herrlichsten

Artzneyen

langen Leben und Heiking der unheilsamen Kranck-

heiten zu

machen

;

zwar aus Paracelf i Handschrift schon

im vorigen Seculo ausgangen, aber so corrupt, dass es fast niemand verstehen konnen, itzo aber aufs neue verhochdeutschet, und von Satz zu Satz erlautert, Nebenst beygefiigtem Hauptschliissel aller Hermetischen Schrifften, OffenNemlich dem unvergleichlichen Tractat genannt stehender Eingang zu dem vormals verschlossenen KonigDem gemeinen Nutz zum besten, und den lichen Pallast. Curiofen zu Gefallen publiciret von Johanne Hiskia Cardilucio Com. Pal. Phil. & Med. Doct. :

Niirnberg, In Verlegung Wolffgang Moritz Endters, und

Johann Andrese Endters Small 8vo.

Title,

Sel.

Erben.

Preface,

Comment,

this

long

title

Mook

in

all

pp. 48.

(No. 223) has contrived to give

from the British

Museum copy

variation, except that he omits the date. is

m.dc.lxxvi.

Register and Errata,

Errata, 400-409. Text, pp. 1-399Last page blank. pp. 30.

Strange to say

Anno

without

The accuracy

altogether phenomenal.

1 1 1.

— 1679.

Mercurii

Zweyfacher Schlangen-stab,

Das

ist

:

I.

II. MenGliicks-Ruthe zu Paracelfi Chymischem Schatz. Darinnen Philofophicum, Univerfale ftruum feu Solvens

das Gold fine

ftrepitu,

wie Eyss

in

warmen Wasser

zer-


45 schniiltzt

Samt dem gantzen Philofophischen

:

Ulm, In Verlegung Balthasar Kuhnen Pp.

Small 12 mo.

[4],

Procefs.

Seel. Wittib. 1679.

112.

(No. 225) writes sampt for saint, and has omitted

Mook the date. 112.

— 1681.

Lapis Vegetabilis, oder die hochste Artzney, Auss

Sambt dem

Aiich andern Erden-Gewachsen.

dem Wein,

zehenden Biich der Archidoxen Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi.

Strassburg, In verlegung

Georg Andreas Dolhopff.

Im

Jahr M.DC.LXXXi.

Small 8vo.

This British 113.

Pp. [4] 92.

There

not given by Mook.

is

is

a

copy

in

the

Museum.

— 1682.

Thesaurinella Olympica Aurea Tripartita, Das

Ein himmlisch giildenes Schatzkammerlein, ausserlesenen grosse

Kleinodien

zugeriistet,

Von

ist

:

vielen

darinn der uhralte

und hochgebenedeyte Charfunckel-stein und Tinctur-

schatz verborgen. getlieilet.

In drey unterschiedliche Cellulas auss-

Allen Liebliabern der himmlischen Warheit,

und

Hermetischen Philosophey, so den Grund der Hochmagischen Tinctur suchen, zu gute

VVie

:

auch zu Beforderung

der edlen Alchimey anjetzo eroffnet und publicirt Durch

Benedictum Figulum Utenhoviatem Franc. Poetam L. C,

Theologum, Theofophum, Philofophum, Medicura, EremiD. T.

tam.

P.

D. G. N.

mdc

:

lxxxii.

Franckfurt

am

Mayn, In Verlegung Georgii Wolffii Buchhandl. in Hamburg in S. Job. Kirchen, Gedruckt durch Johann Gorlin. Small 8vo. Contents, in

Mook

Frontispiece, Title, Epistle, all,

appeared he quotes

in is

1608 in

in

the

punctuation.

(Mook No.

the British

the Reader,

Text, pp. 402.

pp. 16.

(No. 226) has ziir Beforderung

some variations

To

184),

AlcJiymy

The book

;

and first

but though the only copy

Museum,

yet he does not give


46 the

title in full,

the

Museum copy ?

114.

— 1697.

but refers to this later edition.

Arcana Philosophia Or, Chymical

Did he see

Secrets, Containing

The noted and ufeful Chymical Medicines of Dr. and Rich. Ruffel Chymifts, viz.

Wil.

Species Vitce, alias Univerfalis.

I.

Tinctura Regalis, call'd Scorbutuk, &c.

II.

III.

Species Coroborativa, alias Pleuretica.

IV. Species Proprietatis.

V. Species Mitior.

A

VI.

Peftilential Cordial, call'd his

As Also Several Curious Chymical

White Cordial

Proccffes

and Spagerick

Preparations of Natural Things for the ufe of Medicin, and

many

other things of great ufe and vertue in Eradicating

the most Stubborn Difeafes Treatifes, viz. the III. of

By

the

I.

Madnefs, and

Likewife Four curious fmall

;

of Fevers, the II. of the Jaundies, the tlie

IV. of Diaj-rhceas, Lientries,

Renowned and moft Approved

Dr.

Pliilipus Theophiaftus Paracelfiis, of Hoheneim.

Anrelius Publif h'd

by John Headrich, Phi/o-Chymicits, and formerly Operator to Dr. Richard Ruffel.

London, Printed and Sold by Henry Hills in BlackBlew Ball in Hogsden, over against the Crooked Billet, near Shoreditch Church, and the Fryers, the Publifher, at the

Bookfellers of

Small 8vo.

This book leian

was what

celsica, 1877, 1

1

5.

is

Z^?«^/(?w, 6^^:.

Pp. [16] 128

not in Mook's I

No.

1697. [8]. list.

The copy

in

the Bod-

formerly referred to {Bibliographia Para41).

—1702. Congeries

Paracelsicge Chemiae

de Transmutationibus

De Genealogia Mineralium ex Paracelso. Metallorum. Reprinted in Manget's Bibhotheca Chemica Curiosa, pp. 423 454. Genevee, m.dcc.h., folio. Tomus Secundus. and 454-463-

This

is

the last reprint of this collection.

Nos. 71, 90, 98, and 109.

It

is

See above

not mentioned by Mock.


-17

1

1

6.

—1706.

Joh. Michaelis Faustij,

Med. Doct. Phyfici Franco-

Academ. Leopoldino Imperialis Theophili, Compendium Alchymist. Novum, Sive Pandora Explicata & Figuris JUustrata. Das ist, die Edelste Gabe Gottes, Oder Ein Guldener Schatz, Mit welchem die alten und neuen Philosophi, die unvollkommene Metall, durch Gewalt des Feuers verbessert, und allerhand schadliche und unheylsame Kranckheiten innerlich und ausserlich, furt Ordinarij,

durch deren Wiirckung, vertrieben haben.

Dieser Edition

und iiber 800. PhilovoUkomenes Lexicon Alchy-

wird annoch, nebst vielen Kupffern, sopliischen

&

Anmerckungen,

Novum, und

mifticum

ein

ein vollstandiges Register

Rerum

Verborum, beygefuget. Franckfurt und Leipzig, Verlegts Johann Zieger, 1706. 8vo.

Engraved

Title, printed Title (red

and black). Pre-

by Vogel, Faust, Reusner, in all, 2 sheets. Text, Index Yyy LIU 1. (in all pp. 194). Lexicon, pp. 104. Summarischer Begriff, pp. 236, fol-

faces

pp. 1071.

lowed by

I

leaf

The book should This

is

contain 19 symbolical plates.

a reprint of No. 72 above, to which are

added

copious extracts from a great variety of alchemical authors

by way of elucidating the Mook's 117.

text.

This reprint

is

not in

list.

Geheimnisse Des Steins der Weisen oder Schatz-Kammer Der Alchymie, Darinnen die vortrefBichsten

17 18.

Erofifnete

Schrifften derer beriihmtesten alten

und neuern Scribenten denen Liebhabern der Kunst dargestellet werden. Nebst vielen Kupfferstichen und andern dazu dienlichen Figuren. Hamburg, Bey Christian Liebezeit und Theodor Christoff Felginer, 1718. 4to.

Title (red

and black), Preface, Contents, 8

Text, pp. 816.

There

is

a portrait of Paracelsus as frontispiece.

1

eaves.


48

This

Aureum

a reprint of the

is

Vellus of which

editions have been previously referred 4to,

No. 118.

1598-99, No.

2,

not

in

88.

It is

and the second Mook's

the

to, viz.,

two

first

in

small 8vo, 1599,

in

list.

— 1738.

Phil. AvreoH Theophrasti Paracelfi Bombaft von Hohenheim, Welt-beriihmten PhilofophicR iind Medicina

Docioris, wie auch Pliyfices Profefforis Publici

auf der Universitat Basel, Geheimes

und

Ordiiiarii

vollstandiges

Wiinsch-Hiitlein, welches deutlich

und

griindlich anweiset,

wie nicht nur die meisten Ertze

in

ihre drey Principia

dergestalt zu zerlegen, dass sie so wohl in der

Chymia

als

Medicina sehr dienlich seyn konnen, sondern auch der Philosophische Stein in kurtzer Zeit gliicklich zu bereiten

Aus dem wahren und rechten Mannfcripto, nebst der Ankunfift, Leben und Tod des Auctoris, wie auch einem Register, Allen Freunden und Untersuchern der edlen Spagyrischen Wissenschafft zum besten, nunmehro zum offentlichen Druck befordert worden

sey

;

einer Vorrede von

durch Sincerum Aletophilum, Cultorem Hermeticae Scientias Erfurt, in Comiff. bey Aug. Crufio, 1738. Eclecticum. Small 8vo. Pp. 89.

[i

;

Register,

piece, included in the pagination.

Mook

(No. 232) quotes this at

But

title is

quoted correctly.

119

for

Symbohc

full length,

one or two changes

date.

6].

Title red

in the

frontis-

and black.

including the

punctuation this

Philippi Aureoli Theophrafti Paracelfi Chymischer Stein derer Psalter, oder Philosophische Grundsiitze vom

_i 7 7

1.

Weisen

Anno

1522.

omnia

ab

iino,

omnia ad unum.

seltenen lateinischen Grundtext ubersetzt, Liebhaber natiirlicher Geheimnisse 177 r- Ber-

Aus dem hochst von einem lin,

bey

dem

Antiquarius Johann Friedrich Vieweg.

Small 8vo. Pp. [16] 36.

Mook

(No. 238) contracts Joh. Friedr.

Why


49 Philippi Aureoli Theophrafti Paracelfi

I20.— I79I-

Chymischer

oder Philosophische Grundsatze vom Stein derer Weisen Anno 1522. ovinia ab tino, otntiia ad unum. Aus dem hochstseltenen lateinischen Grundtext iibersetzt, Psalter,

Neue

von einem Liebhaber natiirlicher Geheimnisse. Berlin, bey Friedrich Maurer, 1791. Aurtage. Pp. [16] 36.

8vo. Tliis,

which seems to be actually a new edition,

or in part of the preceding number,

in

whole

not mentioned by

is

Mook. 12

1.

1

84-?

Philippi

Theophrasti

Bombast von Hohenheim,

Paracelsus genannt, Geheimniss aller seiner Geheimnisse,

niemals wegen

noch

welches

Fiirtrefflichkeit

ist

seiner

unvergleichlichen

gemein gemacht, sondern

Nach

Geheim gehalten worden.

allezeit

seiner eigenen

in

Hand-

von einem unbekannten Philosopho mitgetheilet. schrift. Nebst einem Anhang und noch mehr anderen fast unglaublich

raren

Curiositaten,

welche

noch niemals

oftenbar

worden.

No i6mo.

place, publisher or date.

Pp. 75, followed by a blank page,

and 4 pages of

book advertisements

This

is

a recent cheap reprint, apparently one of Scheible's,

of a book, editions of which appeared in

and possibly

Mook, but §2,

The

in

1686 and 1770.

this reprint

preceding

1746 and 1750,

These are

all

quoted by

he has overlooked. list

might be

left

to

to

itself

whether the criticism of 1877, based on eleven

titles,

has not been substantiated by other seventy.

It

as well, however, to

compare the

say

has or

may

be

results

now obtained with

.against

Mook's study w ere

the former. § 3-

The main charges brought


these four— (i) want of accuracy description

;

omission

(3)

;

want of systematic

(2)

of authorities

(4)

;

incomplete-

ness.

§4. (i)

Wani of

To

Accuracy.

the misprints formerly

enumerated {Bibliographia Paracelsica, 1877, §9) miglit be added others, thus p. 1 3, Petrtis Rammis for Petrus Ramus :

p. 39,

Leo

;

S. Ltiavius for

Leo Suavms ;

Berthoneae for Bertheoneae p. 104, "

No. 199

No.

for

Meiners, III. B.

p.

book or inserting

;

p.

646

folg.,"

on

:

p. 3

Mook

345," but without either

this

author

" exact titles," and, similarly, p.

No. 148 for No. 136;

46,

Again

196.

Bemerkung,

p. 41,

in

on

his

quotes

naming the

so-called index of

" p. 15,

Brucker, Pars.

IV

without saying which of the two treatises

under Brucker's name

in the

same index he intends

to be

consulted.

But the

themselves are more than sufficient evidence

titles

of the general inaccuracy of Mook's work.

ing

list

be analysed

it

will

If the preced-

be found that there are only two

or three titles which, as given

by Mook,

typographical and other variations.

I

are quite free from

do not now allude to

the omissions and alterations which occur, but to mere

dif-

ferences of spelling and punctuation which are constantly

met with

to be

that can

Mook's

in

be said against

summed up by

transcriptions.

Mook on

one superlative word,

Further proof of Mook's inaccuracy

(2.)

ine the

Want of

titles

score has

all

been

himself (No. 125, see No. 70 above) in

the spelling of the

§ 5.

this

However,

is

superfluous.

Systematic Description.

Mook had

acuratissinii.

In reproduc-

a choice of two methods.

One was


51

much

to give as

as

title

any work or

tion of

do

of a

edition.

would serve

for the identifica-

Previous writers had tried to

according to Mook, had failed

this, but,

he com-

for

;

plains of the niangelliafte titelaiigabe of his predecessors, as

has been already

said.

To

this

titles in full.

by

useful in

own way

its

other

method was

to give the

he was necessarily committed both

and by

criticism

his

The

Each method

his practice.

is

the former yields a catalogue, the

;

Adelung and Graesse,

latter a bibliography.

for

example,

have followed the former method, and their catalogues are fairly passable.

and

Mook

bibliography

his

has followed the second method,

is

a comparative failure.

It is

not

meant-that a particular book or edition cannot be identified

by Mook's

can be, easily

It

list.

than by any other

What

list.

is

— more

meant

is

indeed,

easily,

that

Mook

has

executed his own design so irregularly that not one single title

by him can be depended upon

as given

as representing

exactly what stands in the original work. unnecessarily

full

for

a

mere catalogue

His

titles

they are not

;

scrupulously accurate enough for a bibliography.

thought

it

depart at

desirable to give the whole

all

the meaning ising

it

;

;

why }

he

did he

He

has

sometimes with an alteration of

he has omitted portions of the

the preceding

list

;

he has added

it.

Some

of the changes noticed

are undoubtedly very trivial, and might

have been passed over.

example of

title

sometimes he has given the date,

sometimes he has omitted

set the

If

he has altered the spelling, usually modern-

portions to the title;

in

title,

from the form given by the author

altered the punctuation,

are

But

it

is

Mook

literal criticism, for in

himself

who has

one place

(p. 23,

note 81) he observes that the form Basiliae occurs instead


;

52

whether or

was

may be nothing else than a misprint, but, Mook has shown by his noticing it that he

This

of Basileae.

not,

sufficiently alive

to

minute

such

impossible, therefore, that he

It

is

be unaware of the

could

changes that he himself has made

differences.

the course of his

in

transcriptions.

One

of the most notable irregularities

Mook's treatment of along with the cult to see

He

all,

When he

is

oftener omitted, and

books have no

figures on

name

missing it

occasionally

in

at

by themselves, from the

some other circum-

is

He

absolutely

his difficulties begin.

may

the following 1572, No.

95

:

Mook's description

Am

Seitenzahl.

:

It is

When

Ende

this, it is

only a chronogram its

way

is

is

that

is

year

the

not the case

unnecessary to give instances It

Schrifften, etc.

Ohne

steht

:

to be found on p. 64,

is

herrliche " 8°.

only when

dated

Samuel Apiario MDLXXll.'" After

has

himself seems to be of opinion

suffice.

Drey

Mook

doubt as to whether a book

appears on the title-page.

found

them anywhere

out, or of giving a conjectural one,

it

a book

fect.

dated and when

at their date

of the printer, or

actually dated or not.

that

it is diffi-

In consequence of his putting in the date, or

stance.

left

is

in a section

though sometimes he makes a guess printing, or the

given

principle in either one

a book

compelled to put them

is

more than once shown

has, too,

know when

himself at a loss to not.

it is

what has been the guiding

case or the other.

to be found in

Sometimes the date

dates.

but

title,

is

Jahrzahl, '

quote

I

Druckort und

Getruckt zu Basel, bey

In

its

way

that

is

per-

not surprising that a book that has described as

"

into the correct year.

s.

a." although

On

it

has

the other hand,


53

the books undated really are put under certain years, on epistle, strength of the date at the end of some dedicatory

Altogether

preface.

or of the

Mook's treatment of dates satisfactory

cannot be said that

it

by any means

is

and consistent, and the same

and

successful

may

be said of

other details as well. ยง6. (3) Omission

of Authorities.

As

I

have deliberately

avoided quotation from bibliographers in the present list, and have confined myself to actual copies of the books,

have nothing to add to what was said on this subject

I

in

the former part.

Mook

only

books that he has seen, and

certifies

authorities are the copies in diff"erent libraries.

he did not

am

To

visit.

these unvisited libraries

Mook's frequent references to

it.

Upon this point also there Mook has missed more than a

Covipletejiess.

more to say than that

of the books mentioned in the preceding.

cannot

Mook

fairly

be considered

as

has correctly omitted them;

second hand. him, and this those

in

Some is

my

;

the British

is

no

score

or three

works, and are

reprints,

a few are quite untitles

only at

of the English books have escaped

singular

several blanks in his ยง 8.

others

and of others he knows the

to him,

Two

Paracelsian

which he ought not to have ignored

known

I

add the British Museum, notwithstanding

inclined to

ยง7. (4)

him-

was one of the few European

self says that Wolfenbiittel libraries

He

his

;

for

if

he had paid attention to

Museum he would have

filled

up

list.

From what has now been

original conclusions are

said,

it

appears to

more than confirmed.

me

that


•54

Mook's catalogue contains most of Paracelsus' works and editions. It is the most nearly complete that has ap1.

peared, though a considerable

number have been overlooked

by him. 2.

It

quite

is

possible

to

identify a

copy of any of

Paracelsus' works by Mook's description of 3.

Though

the

nearly complete in numbers,

list is

perfect

and quite unreliable

and

is

it

it.

it is

im-

in its bibliographic descriptions,

devoid of numerical data for the comparison of

copies.

We

—

hear

much

minuteness,

its

of the characteristics of

German

exhaustiveness,

accuracy.

its

its

research

Mook

Marx and Haeser distinguished and Mook's own work has been proved

does not think the work of

by these

qualities,

by

to be distinguished

Mook and

their absence.

his predecessors typical of that

thoroughness, and patience, which to

copy as closely as possible

made

use that can be

Mook

is

to avoid

If in future

and

Is,

his books,

I

we

In

then, the

German

are told

my

work of

devotion,

we ought

opinion, the only

of such a model as the work of

it.

find it

anything more to say about Paracelsus

will

be apart from special criticism of

the so-called " Critical Study

"

of Dr. Friedrich Mook.



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