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BIBLIOGRAPHIA PARACELSICA.
AN
EXAMINATION OF DR. "
FRIEDRICH MOOK'S
THE OPHRA ST US PARACELSUS.
EINE
KRITISCHE STUD IE."
GLASGOW: Jprintcb nt the ©nibcrsttja |3rcss
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
5°
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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