Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab Gottes

Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God (1582)

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Title: Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab Gottes
Author: Epimetheus, Franciscus
Year: 1582

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This document, titled “Pandora,” presents a historical perspective on the intersection of alchemy and medicine, emphasizing the significance of the philosopher’s stone as a transformative and healing agent. Written in 1582 and dedicated to Dr. Martino Rulando, the text critiques the medical practices of the time, particularly the prevalence of deceitful practitioners who exploit the vulnerable with ineffective remedies. It highlights the noble pursuit of true medicine, which is portrayed as a sister of wisdom, essential for maintaining health and preventing suffering. The author, Franciscus Epimetheus, advocates for a return to the foundational principles of Paracelsian medicine, which seeks to harness natural virtues for healing. Through allegorical references and a call for diligent study, the text encourages readers, particularly the younger generation, to engage with the philosophical arts responsibly and ethically. The work serves as both a cautionary tale against quackery and an invitation to explore the profound knowledge embedded within the ancient traditions of medicine and alchemy. Ultimately, “Pandora” aims to illuminate the path toward genuine understanding and mastery of the healing arts, positioning it as a valuable resource for those dedicated to the true practice of medicine.

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The Noblest Gift of God

or the Valuable and Healing Stone of the Wise, with which the old Philosophers, also Theophrastus Paracelsus, improved the imperfect metals through the power of fire; along with all sorts of harmful and unwholesome diseases healed, internally and externally have driven away.A Golden Treasure, which by a lover of this art has been saved from its downfall, and for the benefit of all people, especially for the lovers of Paracelsian medicine, first printed.Printed in Basel.
YEAR 1582.DedicationTo the Honorable and Highly Learned Mr. Martino Rulando, Doctor of Medicine, Palatinate Physician, and Physicist in Lauingen on the Danube, my especially gracious patron and supporter.Honorable and highly learned Mr. Doctor Rulande, the praiseworthy art of medicine is very useful and is called the sister of wisdom by many distinguished people. Just as wisdom keeps the human mind in check so that one does not live like an unreasonable wild animal or sow, so…ForewordTake care of the medicine of the human body, with proper diet and remedies, to maintain it, so that it does not fall into illness and finally, with great pain, into bitter death.[Handwritten text] …must leave his set goal. And when this happens, no one can be of help to the human frailty. How can one ever be satisfied? How can one be sure of one’s strength? How can one rely on one’s own power in physical and worldly matters, when there is no stable state of health? Therefore, in the past, dogmatic medicine has always been held in high regard by princes and other potentates, as it has been beneficial to body and soul.PrefaceGovern/rule, they must be healthy: which they could not have achieved without experienced doctors’ deeds and understanding, to whom God has granted such grace and art, while I have devoted myself to work.What, however, young people for mischief and deceit, pretend to fall into this art, is little to say in a day. For one finds very many deceitful quacks, barbers, and bath attendants, who always with false, deceitful, and deadly theriacs and self-made salves, run from one place to another, and with them win money with all deceit and trickery, but bring harm to body and life, especially when they meddle with harelip, rupture, stone, etc.To cut and to heal. That is truly called / experimenta per mortes agere. The salts and balms must be tested / and it should cost fifty farmers.Some boastful barbers and surgeons also follow this: whether they already have indications for healing, which are taken from a single cause of disease, entirely unknown / yet they give the sick pills / tinctures / purgatives / even Vitrum Antimonii simply melted, not separated from impurities, or mineral turpentine, with great danger and violent movements and disturbances. They care nothing / in their foolish heads / whether they already have not…To understand the ingredients of prescriptions: Once, such a clever master came into the pharmacy, and there he read in an old book: R. Powder. Serpent. Fragile/after rinsed snake. But what do I say about this? Often the executioner, skinner, or an old woman brings a great doctor to the school behind the stove and deprives him of his title to make him a disgrace before the people.This little piece of Hummel’s writing describes very finely the old rhymes: As they go.Est impostorum dux Doctor, Signifer Unctor,
Fumiger excaecans, fera per Cauteria rodens,
Elotor madidus, sudans Mediastinus, Ustor
Martius, immitis Sector, fides? Chimistes,
Sordescens Rasor, trux Exorcista, Minister.Treacherous, insolent Carpenter, deceitful Apelles,
Greek Interpreter, crude Lictor, and reboiled
Drugs peddler, brazen, torpedo Cremator,
Beast, shouting plasterer, leaden Stentor,
In order, a quack, vein cutter, charlatan.These Verses.Doctors boast, any Idiot, Priest,
Jew, Monk, Actor, Barber, Old Woman:
Guilds of Barbers, Pharmacists,
Farmers, Millers, Bakers, Coachmen, Blacksmiths.As such, the mighty and Highly knowledgeable man, Theophrastus Paracelsus, has seen, he has Great zeal and love for his German, invented true Magic: Through which, by acting or uniting Natural virtues, we perform wonders In nature, and almost master the world, As Pius Mirandulanus writes: Which leads us to the knowledge of supernatural things. Such Magicians, (but I do not mean Sorcerers or other black Magic practitioners).Artists) are the wise men who came to the newborn child against Bethlehem: likewise the Kabbalists among the Hebrews, the philosophers among the Greeks, the Gymnosophists among the Indians.However, so that one would not throw pearls before the swine, the good Theophrastus invented a new magical way of writing, which not every traveler or barber or apothecary’s servant, but only the sons of wisdom and true magi, could comprehend: as he himself excuses in his Manual of the Philosopher’s Stone, and in the book of Vexations.This is the reason why he has depicted many allegories, enigmas, and figures. Therefore, he has also invented such strange Kabbalistic and magical names, which seemed very magical; as he called the hidden power or virtue of nature, from which everything grows, is nourished and increased, Iliastros; likewise Ares, which assigns each its own nature, form, and shape, so that it can be distinctly distinguished from others, as can be seen in herbs alone, where each has its own special root, blossom, stem, and leaves. He makes four kinds: The first or implanted Iliaster is the purpose of life, or the most natural, lively balm. The other or prepared Iliaster is the intended goal of life, the living balm, which we…[continuing with the preparation/through addition/in which such materials are drawn and retained sections…]However, so that the Magi and sons of wisdom of these high arts may become partakers and serve mankind with them, they have not spared great costs/on the island of Socotra/Aloe/Paradise wood/Rhubarb/Cinnamon bark/Cardamom/Halcyonium, Emerald/Hyacinth/and similar materials; but have climbed the mountains and sought for long/uncreated/unpleasant recipe herbs: for the writers of the…He who has taken a Kolenzang in his fist and bravely burned it until he has invented the true Mumia Balsamita for all ailments.This has truly cost them much effort and work; they did not sit on soft cushions. It is no wonder that the Magi and philosophers followed their father in writing, in the cabinet of secrets and arcane magic, with various forms laid out, so that those who like to deal with cosmetics can extract this treasure.So now, if one wants to understand this valuable Pandora in France as Epimetheus, they would have to know the magic and magical image.PANDORA: The Book Called The Most Precious Gift of GodMade by Franciscus EpimetheusThose who desire to have true knowledge of the philosophical art of the mind should diligently peruse this book and read it often. Thus, they will achieve a happy wish: Listen, you sons and children of the ancient philosophers, with a louder, clearer, and higher voice than I can ever shout, for I come to reveal the hidden state of human affairs and the most secret treasure of all secrets of the entire world, not fictitiously, nor mockingly or scornfully, but with all certainty and humanity, I want to make the same manifest. Therefore, apply yourselves with such diligence and earnestness….stray, deviate, and turn away from it.But I want to (prevent all deceit and defamation) present the truest experience clearly before your eyes, with the setting of the opinions of the philosophers, so that everything may lead to the right servant, to whom this thing is entrusted, and may be understood clearly and openly.Therefore, we find that all beings, all those who are outside of nature, are defeated and act and work in a peculiar way: Further, nothing else would be expected from a human than that a human from an animal, an animal and every equal brings forth its equal. Therefore, what has nothing of its own in it, cannot have anything according to its liking or similarity. This we say, so that no one may come to his goal, except those who are deceived by the slowness of their understanding….become and come to poverty, misleading others and bringing them to poverty and toil. I have, however, found that no one has engaged in this art, that they have made their rooms and introduced them to great heights. This invention does not require many things, but only one thing. It also does not demand great costs, as it is only a stone, a medicine, a vessel, a regimen, and an order, and I know that it is a true and the truest art.Also, the philosophers would never have known so many and various compositions and orders of colors if they had not seen and touched or tasted them. Therefore, we reject this, that all those who work outside of nature and practice deceit, deceive themselves and others. Therefore, let there be an exercise in nature and in diligent serviceability. For our stone is of a spiritual, preservative, and mineral thing.Thing / Therefore, if you are willing to work with nature, do not set this aside, now that you have undertaken to search for it. Then our art will not be fully appreciated in many things, and with what is called by various names and mixed, it is still only one thing and one matter. For nature is not changed or improved, but remains in its nature.Joannis Andreae in the additions to the Mirror, or the Distinction of the True from the False.Know that the art of alchemy is a gift of the Holy Spirit, and know that we have had in our days Master Arnold of Villanova in the Roman Curia, a chief physician and theologian, about whom I have written regarding the preservation or observance of the compositions, a chapter of the Consilium, who was also a great alchemist, a disciple of gold, which he clarified in all.Therefore, the matter of form naturally desires, as a woman desires a man, and the beauty of the good, as the body desires the spirit, so that it may come to its perfection.If you now recognize the natural roots, you will make your work better and more perfect; for I can teach it to no one else. I call our stone, express it, yet with another name. But through the description of its roots, we take it in another part, and that because the stone is truly called every thing that it has of itself, and in it every necessary thing for its own perfection.So it is to be understood, as previously mentioned, that our stone is from the four elements and has been found in the kingdoms and the poor, and is found everywhere, and compares itself to all things, and is composed of body, soul, and spirit, and does not change itself from one nature into the other nature, until the last of its perfection.They have also said that our stone is made from one thing and is water; then our entire mastery is done with our water, for this water is the sperm and seed of all metals, and all metal is dissolved into it, as indicated, that the imperfect body is turned into the first water, and this water is added with our water, pure and clear, cleansing all things, yet it retains in it the necessary things, and this is precious and beneficial, from which and with which our mastery is accomplished, for it dissolves the body not with common solution or dissolution, as those ignorant ones who want to dissolve the body into the water of the clouds, but with true philosophical solution or dissolution, in which the body is turned back into the first water, upon which it happens and we the exchange……become, then they will indeed be transformed into another. For if they were previously, they will be transformed, and therefore, if something is a breaking or destruction, it is the creation of another. Yet, each in powerful things, each in natural things, when art follows nature, in some it improves and surpasses nature, as also the nature of a sick person is helped by us through the help and diligence of the doctors.Therefore, the honorable nature is used when it is not amended or improved, than only in the nature in which nothing foreign should be introduced, and no powder or any other thing; then many and various natures are neither amended nor improved by our stone. Nothing enters or comes into it that has not sprung from it; for if something foreign is added to it, it will be broken or destroyed from the foundation, and that which is sought will not come out of it.Henceforth, I announce that now……cannot rise; and if it pleases God, you will find it thus to be a complete arrangement or decoration, the nature according to its effect, one after the other. But I want you to also believe that your imagination is according to nature, and then according to nature, from which things the bodies and the entrails of the earth are born. And this forms in you through the true imagination, and not through a fantasy; and also let it be the same from which or with what decoction or boiling happens, whether it is strict or gentle and mild, and thus govern your work, so you will find a complete science or knowledge and art. Therefore, keep this water in hand, for with its good works or effects, it makes the white to the white and the red to the rose.Therefore, it is necessary that our stone is drawn from the nature of two bodies before it becomes……purify and transform them, or belong to the true Lunificium, which is Silver-making, and Solificium, which is Gold-making.Here begins the Table of the Greater KnowledgeFirst, we have in our green lion the true material and what color it may be, and it is called adrop or azoe or duenech.In the second and third, we have how the bodies are dissolved or released in the Quicksilver of the Philosophers, which is in the water of our Mercury, and a new body is formed.In the fourth, we have the purification or cleansing of the Philosophers, which has never been seen in our days, and it is called Sulphur, the Sulfur.In the fifth, we have how the greater or larger part of this water… is a black earth, and very precious, of which all philosophers speak.In the sixth, it is shown how this black earth initially stands on the water and gradually sinks into the bottom of the vessel.In the seventh, it is shown how this earth externally sits in the water, therefore in the color of oil, and thus it is called Oleum Philosophorum.In the eighth, it is shown how the matter is in the blackness and unites with its Mercury, and has killed itself, and in it drowned and sunk, and the water is a little white, and this is Lye.In the ninth, it is shown how the water becomes completely purified from the blackness and remains in the color of milk, and many colors appear in the blackness.In the tenth, it is said, how the black clouds that were in the vessel or above the water dissipated into the body, from where they rose.In the eleventh, it is said, how this ash becomes completely white, like a shining marble, and this is the elixir to the white, and the fruit is ashes.In the twelfth, it is said, how this white is transformed into a transparent red, like a ruby, and this is the elixir to the red.And if you want to understand the whole work well, read it part by part. Then you will see wonderful things in our days. I have seen all these things, except for the lion. I pray to God that He grants me the grace to see this wonderful and sweet thing from Arnoldo de Villa Nova, without whom I do not believe this divine work would have been made, and if it were not……seen and tested, so they could not write or depict it so precisely. I have not said every appearing and necessary thing in this work, for there are some that are not fitting to tell people. Yet I have written and depicted it to the end or fulfillment, although I have not seen it. I know that the work of necessity can be of such a nature. And I know that such a work has never been seen, so depicted or described, and not kept by its authors or probable sayings, for it is quite impossible to know unless one knows and learns it from a master who teaches it, and knows that this is the longest way. Therefore, patience and time are necessary in our mastery. Farewell, happy. Until luck hastens.There are some foolish ears and blind ones who say they can make potable gold or pure gold…Metals, when it transforms or changes all imperfect metal into the truest gold. And at the same time knows how to purify the stained metal from all impurities and blemishes: Also the human body, and that is now certain, and all certainly know, and more, that this is the opinion of all philosophers. But those who understand it from common gold are blind, and even more blind and deceived, for if common gold gives its perfection to another, it still remains imperfect.Saint Thomas of Aquinas: It is, however, the matter of the stone, a coarse or thick water, or it is a heat, or a cold, a water containing fish. And you should believe that these are the costly stones, they come from the animals, then the others.But you may not yet see any gender of the stone, whether the green diminishes and the thin, that should and grows in our minerals or ores.Come here, you blind fools, the ignorant, to this place is the master class.He who knows how to separate the four elements and to unite them, is a master.The wise man sees the light of nature and does not despise it.The philosopher’s son looked at the two mountains…the highest mountains, which are to the right and to the left, and climb up there, where our stone is found. And in the mountain that carries every kind and all sorts of colors and species, you will also find it.Malchamech the Philosopher, the stone, which is necessary in this work, is found everywhere in the plains, mountains, and waters. The rich and the poor have it, and it is also the most common and the most precious. It grows on flesh and on blood. How precious it is to him who knows it.O you blessed green, you give birth to all things.O you blessed nature, and blessed is your effect, for from the imperfect you make perfect.Therefore, do not take this nature, which is pure, clean, delightful, lovely, earthly, bad from good. If you do otherwise, it is of no use at all.We want to go in search of the four elements of nature, which are formally introduced from the book of the earth.You have asked how many true colors there are, and I would like to say this: Know that there are three truly perfect colors from which all other colors originate. The first is black, the second white, the third red; there are many other colors, but nothing can be added or subtracted from them, as they often disappear before the wise.This involves a combination of two bodies and is necessary in our mastery. If one of these bodies alone were in our stone, it would never give a tincture or color. Therefore, it is necessary to combine these two, which, when combined and accepted in the composition of the stone, are impregnated in the belly of the wind. And it is what the philosopher says: The wind has carried it in his belly/ So it is revealed/ that the wind is the air/ and the air is life/ and the life is the soul/ that is/ oil and water.I/ the most high am above all circlesThe world has seen four faces; they have a father, among which one is in the mountains, the other in the air, the other in rocks, the other in the hollow or caves.Here begins the solution of the philosophers, and we make our quicksilver. Our stone is an indestructible corpus, which kills and makes alive. Let nothing contrary enter with our stone, and set it alone.Add to our servant his beloved sister, then they will give birth to an art themselves. For if a beautiful white woman were married to a red bridegroom, they would then embrace each other, and thus embraced, they would be strengthened together, and through each other dissolved, and through each other conjoined or mixed together; as they were previously two, so they become one body.Here they are completely dissolved or the bodies are released in our quicksilver, and becomes a water that remains cold or hot, a tear of the eye.Water Air
Fire EarthTransform or change the nature of the four elements, and what you seek, you find. The natures transform, make a body for the spirit, in our mastery. First, we make from a coarse or thick, the thin or fine, and from the body the water, and consequently, we make from the dry the moist, and thereafter make from the water a body. Thus, the corporeal becomes incorporeal, and the incorporeal corporeal, and consequently, we make what is below according to what is above, and thus vice versa.And actually, the whole work and governance is nothing but a remaining water, which has all things in it as if dormant.The Philosopher: It is indeed one and the same thing, which in it has a soul, and a spirit, and a smoke, and the four elements, over which it rules, and it is not necessary for it, from the other elements, which it does not receive in its nature.Here the bodies are dissolved or loosened in quicksilver; that is, in the water of our Mercury, and becomes a permanent water. Here the gold of the philosophers is dissolved, so that it is reintroduced into its first matter. Filling of the philosophers.Transparent and luminous blackness. The head of the raven, which likewise must become rotten, is necessary. Whatever color appears after the blackness, it is commendable among the philosophers.Here the bodies are placed in the putrefaction or fermentation, and are made into a black earth, and is your effect; then from or out of the incomplete you make the complete, with true purification, fermentation, or putrefaction, which is black and dark. Thereafter, you cause new and various things to be born and sprout forth; with your mind, you make many colors appear.The head of the raven.Transparent blackness; this is the saffron yellow and turbid earth, of which all philosophers speak, and it rises or floats on the water. That which is on the material are dark clouds and are spirit or smoke.This earth, which rises or floats on the water, descends from the other vessel into the bottom of the vessel and becomes the birth of the worm.Yet many philosophers, who saw the matter become thick and turn into earth, and this thickening begins initially from the water. As they gradually let it thicken, they saw the earth sink into the water and stand at the bottom of the vessel under the water, which was yellow, black, and reddish. They said this was the completion or complete breaking or dissolution.The fire is lit in the oven according to the custom and practice of the philosophers, and it makes the whole matter dissolve entirely in water. Then, regulate it with gentle fire until the greater or larger part is turned into black earth; this happens in forty days.Dearest son, know that this art or wisdom is nothing, unless it is a complete inspiration or enlightenment of God. For the whole mastery consists only of one thing, and thus we show this through the words of the philosophers, and according to which we have seen and ignited or kindled; with great work and with great diligence, we have recognized this one thing alone to be perfect, to the white and red; and have no other thing that we might find in which the perfection or completion stands; as much as belongs to the true transformation or conversion of the bodies, or complete preparation, broken and entirely blackened everywhere.Therefore, be patient in the work, in all its stages, patiently completing the process until the tincture or fermentation goes out onto the water in a black color; and when you see a blackness come over this water and penetrate, know that the whole body is dissolved; and so a light, gentle fire must be maintained over it until it receives a navel, the dark one has been born; then the philosophers’ opinion and understanding is that the body…Here further asked, how long the stone will remain in blackness, and what is the sign of the true solution of the stone: I answer, when the blackness appears for the first time, it is a sign of the putrefaction or purification of the solution or dissolution of the stone. But if the blackness completely fades and disappears, it is a sign of the complete purification of the stone and its dissolution.If it is asked whether the black clouds remain on the aforementioned stone for a certain number of days, I answer thus: sometimes more, sometimes less; this change happens due to the amount of medicine and also depends on diligence; therefore, the greater amount requires more time, the lesser amount less time. Wisdom of the work helps the diligent purification of the blackness.If it is asked how long this purification and cleansing of the earth will take, I answer a certain number of days, and sometimes more, sometimes less, according to the amount of earth and water.The Head of the Raven.Oleum Philosophorum.
The oil of the philosophers.
The completely black substance turns a little red.
Here is born the new son of the black, and becomes completely white, and its name will be called Plexir.
This black and dark lead is transformed into quicksilver as before and dissolves.
In the color of the body, it is called the oil of the philosophers.
But the gold is dissolved and released, so that it is reintroduced into its first matter, that is, it truly becomes sulfur and quicksilver; then we can make the best silver and gold, if it is transformed or changed in itself….macerated; therefore, it should now be washed and boiled, so that it truly becomes sulfur and quicksilver, according to the philosopher; these are the true and correct materials of all metals.Whoever can now take a woman and impregnate her, kill the form of the birth and make it alive, and introduce or give a light, and cleanse the face from blackness and darkness, will be of almost greater dignity. For our crowned king, our red sons, in the uniting, in light fire, not yet burning, receive, and a son is born, united; then his clouds, which were upon them, return into their bodies as they had risen.Therefore, either maintain or perfect over it a tempered bath until it is dissolved or released in water, unbearable or unyielding, and entirely expel the tincture or color, the hundred colors of blackness, which is a sign of the solution or resolution.The Sulfur of the Philosophers.The dark house. Then the dragon will eat its wings and leave many and various colors behind, for it will be moved in many ways and many colors, from or out of one color into another, until it comes to a bright white.Aristotle the Philosopher: The most fierce beast should not be fed, for it is thirsty and hungry, and knows that it has nothing after three days.Hermes, the Father of the Philosophers: Here is born the dragon; its house is the dark mist, and blackness is dwelling in all of them. But this sea flees death and the dark mist, and the shine and brightness of the sun steal it.The tract, which keeps the holes or pays attention to them. And our dead son will come, and the king will come out of the fire, and the wedding will be celebrated, and the hidden or secret things will appear, and the virgin milk will become white, and our son will be made healthy and alive, will be a warrior in the fire, and over the tinctures and colors will rise.Schwebel the Philosopher.The fifth house.
Here we are completely purified, the black armor, and it appears everywhere full of flowers of various colors, where the black becomes white like milk.Hermes the Philosopher. Take the black blackness, so many and various colors become in it…appear in him, and the virgins become white as milk; our son is now made alive in the fire, a warrior and for the tinctures or colors rising.Bitter wolves rise up and the ravens on the leather; then a heavy and thick body falls to its center or midpoint. But the quicksilver from the ore is sublimated or elevated, from which all things are made; it is the pure water and the true tincture or color that dispels the shadows, so that it is the white sulfur that alone makes the ore white, with the spirit retained so that it does not flee.A spiritual man had this word in a vision, through the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which has been heard by no one, nor found in any books, namely: You should know that the neck of the face is the head of the raven, which you should know, and it is heard…Then/thereafter is the end/herein are fortunate.Here we comprehend the entire mastery/ Namely/ the white and the red/with these few words.I, who have compiled and made this little work or booklet/ have seen all these things up to here/ I pray to God that He grants me grace/ to see the end.The Ash of Ashes.These black ashes have fallen to their corpus/ from where they originated/ and a combination has occurred/ between the leather and the water/ and it has become ashes.It is true that nature has no movement/ but through the heat of the work/ if you manage the heat well/ so that until the costly white color springs forth above him.In this mixture, all the pains of the world will appear, when the moisture is dried up, that which is expelled from him; the fire will again hold it until it is retained, and will not be separated from him through the fire, that is, these pains; the healthier it is from the body, it will be brought back over or onto its corpus, from where it originated, and will become a corpus.Cook, rub, counteract, and do not tire of counteracting, however long the work may be, for it goes through long cooking.The White Horse.I am the elixir for the white, transforming the imperfect thing into the purest, clearest silver, better than that from the ore veins.What has made me white, that makes me red. The white and the red come from one root.This thing is a part, perverted thousands part of quicksilver into the purest, clearest silver. Morigenus the Philosopher tells us in the white, and in the red.Make white the Laton, and keep the books behind you, so that they do not break or become destroyed.Then our thing is easy, and requires a light assistance.So now, dear son, if you work and act philosophically, and aim for the same and research, and achieve and attain it, you will be blessed, if you do it quickly, or…The Red Rose.I am the Leviathan to the red, transforming all imperfect bodies into the purest, clearest gold, better than that from the ore vein. Lilius the Philosopher, in the end, the King will emerge with his carbuncle, sitting outside, half rising like wax or quicksilver. When a part is cast onto a thousand parts of quicksilver, we have seen and felt that it coagulates and makes it hard and red. Saint Thomas makes it and turns it into the clearest gold. Crowned with a crown, shining beautifully like the clear sun.Through dry calcination, it will be cooked until it becomes red like cinnabar; you should not add any water to it from the other, nor any other thing, until the red is achieved or cooked to perfection.Of Multiplication or Increase, I remain silent for the better.Lilius the Philosopher: And if it is made red through longer boiling, it makes it the color of eternal gold.There is an herb called adrop or dinech or azone, from which such medicine is made, and we found it on Mount Balco in the Veronese field. Then, in all seven days, everything is completely understood; therefore, the overall entirety is figured and ordered with the number seven.These things repeat often; thus, the number remains the same through the space or length of the seven, around the order of the days, that is, the years.The greatest secret of the art/ to sharpen Lunaria from white and away/ with the parts of vegetables, or healthful things.So now, in the name of Jesus Christ, take Lunaria/ with the healthful or nourishing things/ in equal weight/ and put therein the nourishing/ coarsely crushed/ or cut into small pieces/ well enclosed in a glass vessel/ and let it stand/ in the heat of the sun/ for fourteen or twenty days/ afterwards it will be distilled/ first with gentle fire/ and a beautiful/ clear moisture will rise/ if this is raised higher/ the fire will strengthen/ the spirits will come out/ and the fire will be regulated/ as in the making of Aqua fortis/ Then take the distilled water/ and it is a very stinking material/ put it in a circular vessel/ and seal it well.If it has lasted a year, that which lasted twelve days has lasted a long time, that it may be healed and made healthy in a month; then just as it heals the afflicted metal from all impurity, so also the human body. Therefore, our blessed stone, rightly called a Tiryay, is named both for human bodies and metals, of which Hermes, a king of the Greeks and father of philosophers, says: If you take our Elixir every day and seven days in a row in the right measure of a Carob bean, your gray hair will fall out and black will grow in its place, and thus you will become a young and strong man from an old one.Here follows the beginning of the workSo that you may understand it all the more clearly, we want to show you the true undertaking, in which hour and in which day and in which month the beginning of our mastery shall occur. And therefore we say, that whoever does otherwise, certainly errs; and whoever acts according to what we command, will surely experience the true art.Therefore, we say that the Philosophical Stone shall be taken with its entire substance, and that the purest and most subtle substance shall be gathered from the same stone and placed into a philosophical vessel. The mouth of the vessel shall be sealed according to philosophical custom and habit, and it shall be set in the ground of the philosophers until the setting of the sun. All this shall happen in the month of June, and this work shall begin from the middle of the Christmas month until the middle of January, under the sign of the stone goat. Then it shall be philosophically ignited, and the work shall be governed according to the custom and habit of the philosophers, through the whole sign, and see that in the painted sign, the whole matter that is volatile, or flies away, becomes firm.Therefore, let the heat be such that you can hold your hand between the sides or walls of the oven, in such warmth it stands until you see the matter turn black. If it wants to extend itself for a long time, increase the fire a little, and then when you see the matter turn black, increase the fire, for it is the beginning of the dissolution. After that, maintain the fire until all colors have passed over, and when you also see the matter become a little white, increase the fire imperceptibly until it comes to complete whiteness. Then it is enough and is fulfilled. But the fire will be gradually increased until you see the matter raised to the whiteness.Geber in his Summa, in the first chapter, on the natural beginnings.Then it is to be noted that after the stone is purified and completely cleansed of all breaking or destroying things, and then fermented or preserved, you do not need to change the vessel, nor open it, but only that God protects it so that it does not break. And from the same weight, the philosophers have said that the whole work now happens in one vessel, and they know that in 40 days and nights, or in 50 at the longest, the work will be completed to the white, after the true purification of the stone. Then he may have no certain set time in the purification, but only after the worker or laborer works well, and in 90 days and nights the work will be completed to the red, or in 91 at the longest. And these are the true goals and ends for the entire completion, and if you come to this…Praise be to the Lord Christ.AlchemyHere I teach you a lovely doctrine of true foundation: how one should come to an end with the Philosopher’s Stone, whether it be on gold or on silver, which is called a tincture or medicine or elixir, and works in many ways and makes one wise and healthy. Yet, among a hundred, hardly one is found who can achieve this stone. The masters of philosophy have set the stone and the art with veiled words and have set things that one should call this stone, or this tincture or medicine, and yet they did not mean these things, but only gave a likeness to understand it, so that not every sinner should deal with these things, but only the one to whom God shows such grace and gives will. For this art is called a gift of God. Thus, God Almighty has spoken in the Holy Gospel.Many are called, but few are chosen. This is how it is said: many are called to eternal life, but few are chosen. Thus it is also here in this art: many are called, that is, those who deal with the art, and few are chosen, that is, those who come to an end in this art. And the reason is that they do not properly understand the books of the philosophers and do not use their reason, or perhaps it is God’s will that they are not worthy. And when they cannot come to this art, they say the art is not just and is a deception. Some take arsenic, quicksilver, silver that is sublimated with salt, alum, vitriol, and the like, and burn and dissolve and coagulate in various ways. Through this, their doubt grows ever greater, and because of their doubt, they do not notice that the masters say: our art is secretly established….and grind them into powder without any addition, which are foreign / therefore the masters have called the mercury, salt, and vitriol, and alum, as the three natures have dissolved, a thing in water or powder.Thus mercury has the nature to return gold and silver into powder and water without any foreign addition, and this is the cause, for all metals have their origin and come and grow from the mercury, and it is called the first matter, or sperm, just as all humans come from Adam and from Eve, and the first and all descendants of humans who are on earth, the first matter and sperm is the earth from which the Almighty God created humans, so that all humans must return to earth, therefore the natural master Aristotle speaks in the book called Meteoroorum. They mock the artificers, sophistically saying: Let the artificers of alchemy know…… again, so the soul of the gold dies with the spirit and unites with it. It never separates again, and the soul never returns from the spirit, just as water does not separate from water. Thus, the spirit revives the body and draws it from its soul, and the spirit is made alive again. This happens through sublimation, and the body remains as ash and is dead. Then one should pour the spirit and the soul back into the dead body, so the body rises with the spirit and the soul and becomes alive again. Thus, the spirit and the soul should die again in the body, as the masters say: “Qui mecum oritur, mecum moritur.” Whoever rises with me shall die with me. And when this happens, you have the true Philosopher’s Stone. It is a tincture or medicine that can transform one part of base silver or copper into true gold or silver.Here ends a poem and was a foundation / grasped with short words / without all the comprehension of the wise masters / of the art of the philosophers / which is called Alchemy / which alone is holy in their books / as our Father Hermes / Turba / Pythagoras / Epimendus / Plato / Psuedo-Philus / Lucas / Democritus / Arsleus / Locustes / Epimenus / Socrates / Simon / Mundus / Dardanius / Belus / Theophilus / Dantim / Galienus / Lullius / Avicenna / Bonellus / Benitus / Moyses / Morienus / Arnoldus de nova Villa / who all speak alike in their books / and all preserve the art / Therefore no one should have any doubt / for this art is just in itself.Rebis another matter.The certain best thing of this art / is naturally gold and the water Mercurialis mixed together.Water/our water is spirit/our spirit is the soul/and the soul is the body/and the body is earth/in the earth are the two elements in water/is fire the other two elements.All philosophers have spoken/what is hot/that is fire/and what is liquid/that is water/and what rises above/that is air/and what coagulates/that is earth and stone/thereby it is to be noted/that oil is the fire/and Aqua Mercurialis is the air/and in the distillation is the water/and in the coagulation is the stone/Thanks be to God.Of the nature of the governance and formation of metals in their oreThe nature of things has all fusible or meltable things naturally extracted/from the mercury with the substance of its sulfur/therefore it is the property of the mercury/that it coagulates/or combines/according to the art of the sulfur.And therefore, whoever seeks the secrecy of the philosophers in lies, loses all costs, effort, and work along with the time.That the Expensive Weaknessis an imperfection of the metals, and a cause of imperfection.Notice the words and record the secrets, for the entire knowledge and art and the whole truth is based on the words of the aforementioned philosophers and their teachings. Therefore, we openly leave or abandon that a twofold weakness is in the bodies: one indeed in the depth of the enclosed quicksilver at the beginning of its mixture for rising, the other, however, is expensive, perishable, or destructible by nature; for the latter is taken with effort or lifted. The other to take or lift is with no sense of the arts possible, because the combustible sulfurousness is also eliminated from the bodies with the calcination of the fire. But the spicy sulfurousness is not at all, because it is of its perfection, and that is because it contains quicksilver and determines before burning that which is of its nature, and the other, however, is contrary to the fire, explaining that it is its poison. Therefore, it is naturally hostile, because true silver clings more to the quicksilver and is more amazed at it, but the gold follows the silver. Therefore, it is concluded or understood from this that it makes its nature more passionate, but not the other bodies. Yet they have a similarity or co-formation to or against it, because they have within them the external, impure, and stinking sulfur. Therefore, so……shaping each body. The silver, however, is a tincture or dye, the white, perfectly dyeing or coloring the bodies. With these bodies, the mercury is mixed and heated through them with proper understanding, which does not come to the stubborn and unteachable.That a Stone of the Philosophers is, from which our Stone is drawn.Therefore, the seeker of this art must be of steadfast will in the effect, that he does not take one thing for another to confuse and misunderstand. For in the multitude of things, our art is not accomplished. For it is only one thing, and a stone and a medicine, to which nothing external is added, nor diminished or taken away, when the…Many things amend and improve our stone not; it does not break down anything in it that is not sprung from it. For if something external were to enter it, it would break apart and not hold together. Therefore, it is necessary to seek out things that are naturally compatible with the body. The medicine must agree with them in nature and be similar, and mostly adhere to them in depth, and each defect or deficiency must be completely filled, and that it may be made more fixed before its flight through the smallest or least. But no body, remaining in its nature, coagulates the Mercury, nor does it adhere stiffly to it. Neither does the medicine or Mercury heal the blind or weak body by itself, for it is consumed by the heat of the fire rather than being healed by them, because thick things do not fit well with the simple.Donkey to the feeder / then the gold gives a golden one / the silver a silver color / which now the mercury with Sol and Luna can or wants to tint or color / that comes to the secret / or secrecy / which is called white sulfur / best for the silver / which sulfur / when it is made red / is red sulfur for the gold / Therefore, when we extract from these bodies / our white and red sulfur / inside is the purest substance of the sulfur / purified through the nature’s sense / which according to Albertus’ opinion is clearer and subtler / then in its purification is the art of sulfur / then the nature / it also does not succeed / although it is much and vastly enriched / its father is Sol its mother Luna / then from these bodies with their sulfur and mercury our medicine is extracted and prepared / but from their sulfur alone / or their mercury prepared!is simply wood, is quicksilver, but it is a part of the same, then it is illuminated and preserved from combustion, which is a cause of completeness. Therefore, whatever kind of substance the medicine may be, whether it is in the bodies or in the substance of quicksilver, the medicine or material of the precious stone would be explored. But I did this so that you would no longer be confused, for with Mercury and Sol, and with Mercury and Luna, then the whole benefit of this art consists in them alone.That it is possible for our stone to be accomplished solely from the material of the metals.Therefore, just as from the first material of nature our work alone would begin, that would be too long and impossible and unfeasible, and would also require greater and eventually infinite costs; therefore, and what was given in its nature, and also that the Elixir was composed according to the instruction and example or teaching of the wise, from pure beautiful species, a condiment or preparation, an antidote, a medicine, and a purification of all bodies, to heal them, to cleanse them, and to transform them into their true Lunificum, that is, Silver-making, and into true Solificum, that is, Gold-making. But those who now believe, it is then at the end of the work, when they have first completed the work, when they have worked so much on it, that their work is the nature of the metals, so they believe and assume they have fulfilled the complete Elixir. But when they make the projection or casting or insertion and do it, they do not find it. Therefore, they stop working right at the place where they should have started.What the first work of the philosophers is and how it should be understood, this the wise in alchemy should know.The work of the philosophers is to dissolve or to unlock their stone into Mercury, so that its inner first nature or matter is brought back again. Therefore, the philosopher says in the fourth Meteorum, where he reproaches the sophists and deceivers of this art, saying that the craftsmen of alchemy should know that they cannot transform the species or forms of things. This is indeed the simplicity of Albertus, where he does not himself bring the species, as hereafter, into their first nature again. This matter is indeed primarily quicksilver, which is an element of all things. Thus, they will transform into another form and shape, as they were previously transformers, not certainly in species or forms, but rather inseparable from the forms; because these are inseparable from the sensory effects, they are perverted in themselves; the species, however, or forms, if they are perverted by nature, are not perverted in the same way as the sensory effects, and therefore they are in themselves.Engagement with the Art of Alchemyby the masters, and first by our father Hermes, who is said to have been a king of Greece, in Constantinople.Hermes, our father, speaks thus: when the body is dissolved in water, it is called the stone, or the living water, which coagulates the mercury, or brings it to an eternal coagulation, or solidification, and the mercury is the soul and the spirit, and the gold or silver is the body.Dausacus says: Prepare the body and dissolve it, and with this water you should imbibe the spirit. When they are washed and purified, the spirits mix with the body, and the body with the spirits, they fix themselves in a strong and lasting fixation.Alphanus says: You should purify and calcine the body first; then add the washed spirits, and the spirits will sublimate.Plato says: Metals are like a thing that is brought forth, and all other things are as much as spirit and are like milk. When you calcine and dissolve the metals, and they are joined with the spirits, the spirit congeals with them, becoming a strong mixture and a medicine, one part of which is Mercury congealed, with a lasting and strong congelation.Turba says: When the body is purified and dissolved, imbibe or one mixes the spirits together, creating a complete mixture that can never again be separated.Galenus says: Prepare the body, which is the metal, and purify it from its impurities, in which lies the brittleness, until they become white or red. Then dissolve the body and the spirit, and congeal them, casting them onto a solid body, which is metal. Thus it becomes gold and silver, much better than from the ore.Avicenna says: Calcine the metal with quicksilver, which is the spirit of the whites, and speaking, the mercury eats and consumes the broken moisture of the metals. All adhering things of the metals, like sulfur, evaporate. And when the spirit is cast upon it, the metal is purified by the spirit, and the spirit by the body. Thereafter, you are much more secure that the matter can be softened and broken.Alphidius says this art is accomplished in four ways. The first, that one dissolves the metal with the spirits. The second, that one should dissolve the spirits and coagulate the metal. The third, that one dissolves the metal and coagulates the spirits. The fourth is the best advice, that one dissolves the metal with the spirits or spirits.Morienus says, dissolve the spirits and the metal and coagulate them, so that neither can be separated from the other by fire.Hermes says, that Mercury with the power of fire, Latonem, which is any metal, that is black wood, makes white azoc, that is Mercury, and washes it from its heaviness, as the masters say, you should whiten the metals, so that you do not destroy the teaching of your books, so that you do not destroy your heart.Askannus speaks in the book Turba: The spirit is not added to the metals until it purifies them of their impurities and cleanses the metals properly, and they become subtle, as they are Mercury, and join with Mercury.Niceberus speaks in the book called “At the Well”: The more one dissolves the metals with their souls and spirits, which are not fixed, and they are congealed with each other, the more they increase, not only in quantity or size, but in virtue and strength, and in subtlety. And if one wants to tint or color them, they turn more into good gold and silver.Lymnidus speaks: You should know that our tincture or medicine cannot be made from any other thing, only from our ore, that is, from our confection or amalgam, that is, from our metals gold or silver and from their souls and from our…Socrates speaks in the book Turba: the secret of our stone and our work, that is gold, and it is made by a boy and a woman.Glosarius speaks: the woman dissolves the man, and the man fixes the woman. Here a question arises: what is the thing? Answer: Kalis, a great philosopher, says it is nothing other than the composition of the third element, and it is called a thing when the metal substance and the water substance are prepared inseparably, so that they cannot be separated from each other. Thus, one is a spirit, that is volatile, and the other is fixed, and because of the latter, when one is fixed, the other is also fixed as the body.The natural Sol, together with the Mercurial water, when the two are combined, makes all linen or any other thing into true, pure, fine gold, which remains forever, which does not perish…transformed, even if it is burned a thousand times, this water, as you will, will become one thing with Luna. The same transforms ore into true Luna, which is water and remains forever and yields to no test.PrayerPrayer: The hidden spirit is in the belly of its body; the same spirit is our water, and our Argentum Vivum, our fire, and our spirit are called our fire. And the spirit draws to itself the hidden spirit, and the oil draws to itself the hidden oil. Thus, the water is a strong spirit and is also true, and draws to itself the secret spirit from the body. And this body should you mix a little with the mixture, then it will be a water material, which water in the art is almost useless, although it is not entirely perfect, because it comes from a small amount from which it is drawn out, and is sharp and hard, bitterness is not yet certain; but it brings a resistance from unstable things, from which it is drawn out; therefore the material is called necessity, and through the fire, the material dissolves, and the destroyer and killer of water, body, and makes them alive again, and adds them back together, that you do not know when it is bad water; also you cannot make a stable body, as I have written at the beginning, that it is a stone and yet not a stone, but is drawn out from the stones. But you must choose the nature from the ground or from the depth of the body, because nature overcomes, and is implanted, that from like comes like, is shaped and made; then nature becomes beautiful again and joins itself to its nature, and the tincture becomes different, not when from the thing and is a tincture or an expulsion.your Aludel, and work just as before; then take the feces, melt and drive off/separate as belongs to it. Item, the red from the red. To the red belongs Saturn and Mars; to the white belongs Venus and Jupiter; the white from the white.Res/ or ThingItem, receive the thing that is light; it will be dead the 30th day; in the body of the dragon lies its life, and the 10th day, and then it separates; thus the elements go from one another.Item, a snake is born, and it is fixed or fastened, which is volatile.Sun purifies Mercury; if you seek the heat of the gold, you give that; so the gold gives brown before lions.Oleum from Res/from ThingItem, draw out the quintessence from the Res/or Thing; and the white is thus. Take to the first.If you have this, you have something that the treasure of the world cannot equal. Behold the great wonder that is revealed here: such great sweetness from the thing, or object, that is red from the quinta essentia, which is as sweet as honey, and nothing can compare to it. I tell you in the love of God, human nature cannot comprehend the precious things of the quinta essentia, as previously mentioned. Believe me truly, that in nature it has never been secret or found. Take note, I tell all people who have labored and worked, that the spiritus minerales, which is the extraordinary spirit, sublimated, will never find the quinta essentiam res, as I have said. I tell you a thousand times, this is the secret of all secrets, so I may not say it halfway, the half-secret; it heals all wounds quickly, and its virtue is indestructible and therefore…to be amazed, and it is very useful and necessary to stand for 40 days in the glass to purify or distill; so it will be sanctified, and it is a great miracle that from the thing such great sweetness, which is impossible, that you have revealed. You should note, the quintessence is as sweet as honey or sugar or any good wine. Believe me, truly, if you leave all books of the philosophers, you will find nothing more than what is Plumbum Philosophorum. Thus, you will not find the true art, how to work and labor, without only Mercurium vivum. This can be worked from the mineral, that is, Erzader, and sublimated into a red color. The thing is a mother of all metals, and is Plumbum Philosophorum, that is, lead of the philosophers. Now labor and work diligently and praise God.Deo gratias, Amen.Now one can transform the elements from one into another quite well; therefore, they are born and broken, and unite and transform into one another. Whoever wants to transform the elements and can change them from one into another, what he seeks, he finds when it is transformed. And the effect is nothing other than the transformation and change of nature; thus, one transforms the elements into heat, into cold, into moisture, into dryness, into wonderful unification. Yet truly, dryness does not transform into moisture unless it is first transformed into cold; after the cold, it transforms into heat, unless it is first transformed into moisture, which is air. For no transition can occur from one end to the other except through the middle, which is the earth, becoming fire, and the water becoming air. Now, the earth does not transform into air unless it is first transformed into water; also, the fire does not transform into water unless it is first transformed into air, when the water and…and the air are the middle elements; the fire and the earth are at the ends. The air is closest to the fire, so the water is near the earth, and therefore the water is by nature opposite to the fire, and the earth opposite to the air, because the water is cold and moist, and the fire hot and dry, and the earth is dry and cold, and the air moist and warm. Now, the water and the air have a commonality with moisture. Now, the fire and the earth have a commonality with dryness, and therefore they are without intermediary, one in the other, mixing and taking one with the other in a being, so that they cannot be easily separated. But on the other hand, the air and the earth, the fire and the water, do not take each other, nor mix with each other, unless one turns the fire into the air, and the earth into water, and if one thus turns from the first, the fire gains…union with the earth in dryness; and therefore when the dryness is converted into cold, into warmth, or into heat, and the heat into dryness, then you have and gain the entire mastery, how you should turn and transform one element into the other. These are 4 things, particularly through the story. The first is solution, the second mixing, the third reduction (that is introduction), the fourth fixation. The solution is to make the coarse subtle and simple, the washing, to make the black pure and white. The reduction is to make the wet dry, the fixation is to make it firm and stable from the volatile. The solution is breaking and dividing, and the first maceration. The mixing is that which makes it moist, distills and calcines; the reduction is restoration. That it is fixed as butter and flows as wax and becomes subtle. The fixation is…… is that one makes in the solution and coagulates it in itself into a clear stone. Through the first, the nature changes inwardly; through the second outwardly; through the third superficially; through the fourth underneath.Item, the last chapter briefly states the confusion and interpretation of all the work of the entire art, and it is the sense and opinion of all work. One should take the Philosopher’s Stone, which is well known, and first sublimate it with the fire of the first degree, so that it becomes purified from its impurities and more usable. Then through all degrees of fire, so that it smells and tastes of all essence and flavor. Thereafter dissolve and let it run through a filter, clear and pure, and coagulate it white and fix it steadily in the gentle fire, so that it remains steady. Then place it according to the seven stones in its equal, which is not fixed, and make it volatile again, and dissolve it again and…Coagulate it, and dissolve it again and again, and make it liquid and coagulate it completely, and make it liquid, and you must do this until it becomes fluid like wax, and that is truly and essentially its nature, and tint it white or red as you then call it incomprehensible.MercuriusWhen I speak of Mercurius, I am cold and moist in the fourth degree. Whoever takes from me the third degree of coldness and the second degree of moisture, he has good Luna, and better than other Luna, but not better than in Persia, in the line of Uecia exalted. That is, in a gentle little stream in Uecia, I am elevated. Therefore, I am a father of all metals, and since I am now a father and a slimy water and a sulfur earth, and therefore I am in the depths of the earth, that I cannot emerge, I am composed of the…without spot of virginity, and all secrets are in me, and he who lives a thousand years may never punish me for the end of my goodness. I am coagulated fermentum, that is, a combined wallflower lever, a paste, a must, in good taste. But the fire and weight are masters in the work.Here follows the LapisTake a stone called Alenthalb, and the one that grows from two mountains, where the flies always help from experience. Take it not then fresh with its blood, and if it were not of a moist nature, it would not mix with the Mercurio, for from this the like mix, so they mix and join together, so that the fire may not harm it. Take it and cut it with a sharpness in the size of a finger’s breadth, or a nail’s breadth, and take one pound or 24 lots, and put it in 4 pounds of salt alkali water, and in 4 pounds of children’s urine, put it all in a glass…glass head with a long neck, and heat it with a strong fire until it ignites, so that you can test it at the top through the hole. Be careful not to spoil its taste, for it will ruin you. When it becomes water, so the fifth rebis turns to water. Honor the water when it is poured from the vessel; let it cool and pass it through a cloth, retaining the feces. And the stone is the master of all stones. It is a stone and not a stone; you find it everywhere, on the plains, in the mountains, and in all waters, and the poor as well as the rich have it. It is the weakness of all things and the destruction of all things; from it, hearts and kings may be driven away. You may also honor and approach it if you wish. Praise be to God, and his name is blessed, who has created it, the most beautiful of all things. Distill the water seven times, and…Thomas AquinasO dearest brother, at your diligent request, as you have long desired, you have received from me a brief treatise of our art, a certain rule, a clear instruction, useful and powerful. I want to reveal it to you in eight chapters and will ask you for three things: first, that you do not pay much attention to the many words of the philosophers who write or speak about this art, for the art stands in concepts and in the understanding and in the indication of the instruction. There the art has set its goal, and indeed the philosophers have wanted to conceal the art and the truth and have done so to the unworthy, and have spoken all this figuratively, that is, figuratively and secretly.Secondly, I ask you to guard against many things, namely to buy species and to set them, when, why, and how.Prelates may come to him for assistance, and not only them, but also all those who need this art, and for free, or for God’s sake, no one should give it, but for free. What you have received for free, you should give for free to those who deserve it. This aforementioned rule of teaching should be secretly inscribed in your heart.According to this, the teacher Autcenna in the Epistle, which is sent by King Assen, proves to us and it reads as follows: How such a certain substance and a composition of several things, which substance is set on fire and the fire is liquid, and it mixes with a single nature with the right weight, which tincture is superior to all treasures and all nobility of this world, when our thing makes one three and three two; therefore, patience and instruments are needed, which are vessels; therefore, you should have patience.As the master Geber writes, who thus speaks, all haste the comp…from the devil; therefore, he who cannot have patience, who sleeps away his hands’ work, who sits idle, is also necessary, for all natural effects that follow are our art; he must have patience, the time that is set is necessary, then the vessels are useful, and yet as little as you know how to listen, when for body and our art, it becomes in a thing, in a vessel, and in a work completed, and yet a single nature of no other external things is necessary; when only a firmament’s white or red, that is pure in brightness, and in no other work has been, in which governance of the work many colors still reveal themselves over time; therefore, in the very first days, one must stand up, see whether our life remains and in the coming thought transforms itself into yellow or in many colors, only to wait for the white. When that happens, we should pray without all testimony of King Solomon, who is adorned with his red diamond; that is the Stone and our Elixir, or the poor powder that is incomprehensible, which stone has as many names as there are things in the world. But to briefly excuse myself from these things and to reveal our material or magnet, that is, our silver wine, that is, urine, or the urine of children of 12 years, which is properly prepared, which briefly comes from the other, and has never been of any value. And what I have written in the great work, I call terra Hispanica, Spanish earth, or aramenis, but I mean argentum vivum, gum, which some sophists use more. Therefore, since it is now something, it is called a multiplication, but if it is little, to ingest or dye, to calculate or estimate against our mastery, and how much it costs to soften and free, and whoever is willing to work on it, you will find the truth in it. But it requires quite a bit of…So it is not necessary to have such great and countless labor, because our work relies on the regimen of fire and on the comprehensibility of reason. If we do not work, but rather the virtue of fire, which truly completes our stone with little work and at little cost, because our stone, when it is brought into its first matter, is in its first water, or lac virginis, which is virgin’s milk, or in cauda Draconis, which is the dragon’s tail. And when it is thus dissolved, the same stone calcines, sublimates, distills, reduces, washes, and coagulates itself, and the virtue of the necessary fire occurs in a single vessel without any manual work. Therefore, my dearest son, recognize how the philosophers have spoken of their work in figures, so that you may be sure to purify and cleanse the matter, I teach you in the work of the children, or daughters….convert into a subtle powder, whether it is from a dead earthly body or from a dead person in a grave, or magnesia, and is perfected when the spirit is at rest in it and the soul is thus completely gone. Therefore, let the whole body stand for 46 weeks, so the grave becomes heavy and the body hard, the sharpness soft, and the sweet bitter, through the transformation of nature and through the virtue of the secret fire completed or fulfilled.RosariusThis is the treatise and the little book of the master named Arnoldus of Villanova, which is called the Rosarium, and sets forth in short and unadorned words how one may come to this art, called Alchemy. And note, if you want to make gold, you should take nothing else but gold and mercury. If you want to make sil…… the Mercury of the Philosophers. Thus it is said among the philosophers: Natura natura laetatur, that is, one nature rejoices in another nature. This is understood as the nature of a man rejoicing in the nature or with the nature of a woman. Therefore, Aristotle, the natural master, says: Res non fiunt nisi secundum naturas eorum, ut homo de homine, Leo de Leone, etc.So much has been said: things or creatures are each according to their nature. As a human being is and always will be born from a human being, a lion from a lion, and so on. For each nature in particular is according to its nature, which is its own nature. As all humans are from Adam and Eve, the nature of Adam is according to the nature of Eve, for Eve is taken from Adam. Therefore, they have mingled with each other and are according to each other, and their seed is multiplied, and what comes from them both is innumerable, the human race.In the same manner, it is also in this art that Sol and Luna and all other metals have grown in the earth and have their origin from Mercury. Therefore, Mercury is called the father of all metals because they originate from it. Therefore, they have great joy when they return to their origin, that is, when the quicksilver is mixed and united, and grow and multiply, never separating from each other. Therefore, the masters highly honor Mercury with noble names; they call it the virgin’s milk. Oh, how precious is the virgin’s milk, from which all metals suck and take their nourishment, when they become alive from it and their nourishment is increased from it. Thereafter, they call Mercury “aquam permanentem,” which is often spoken of as the living water. Then, when Mercury is added to the metals, it unites…each other. Take 9 parts of Mercury, 1 part of lime or plate ☉ & ☽, then mix and amalgamate in a vial that is filled with one-third of the material, and the other 2 parts should be empty. Seal this vial hermetically, then place this vial with the enclosed material into the bath of Mary. Let this material undergo philosophical digestion for a month in the first degree of fire. You may also use the bath in which you have placed the glass with the enclosed material, covering it with a lid that has a hole the size of a finger in the middle, so that water can enter the bath and evaporate. When this material has been purified in the bath for a philosophical month, if it has turned black, then take this purified material out of the bath, which has become entirely black like a head after purification. Then…In the name of the Holy and indivisible Trinity, we wish to proceed and continue to compare and prepare the medicine or elixir of life, also called a medicine. Some call it the Philosopher’s Stone, some call it an elixir, the quintessence. Others call it Albanus, and by many other incomparable and unspeakable names. This medicine is almost mineral or metallic, as it makes an old person, as much as possible, physically strong, completely rejuvenated, and brings them back to such a state and health of body as if they were still in their twenties. It heals the diseases of animals and heals the pain of stones, as it breaks the stone in the bladder. It also heals wounds and stomach ailments, gout and trembling of the hands, and all pains and weaknesses of the limbs. Likewise and…It heals paralysis and trembling of the limbs, and is also wonderfully effective in healing dropsy, which is also the disease of the swineherds and lepers, gall sickness, milk sickness, liver sickness. It also heals with divine miracles the seasoned malady or condition. It also makes a person live healthily in good condition and for a long time, so that a person lives in health and youth until his natural root moisture departs. This medicine has been used by philosophers and has been cherished for a long time by the grace of the Lord, and it is known that this aforementioned medicine not only removes the aforementioned ailments but also transforms all imperfect bodies and even Mercury itself into the purest gold and silver, according to the end for which it is prepared or will be prepared. But about this stone or medicine, the philosophers and wise men have…dark and hidden speech, intending to conceal the art and knowledge from the common and unwise. But we want to bring it forth clearly and brightly and teach it, so that it becomes apparent even to the unwise. But with clear evidence of the teachers and scholars, I want to initially set some verses in which the complete knowledge of this art is contained.ContentsSo we want to now descend to the practice and handling, and clearly and openly and understandably explain them. Therefore, note that in the entire art of our work (which is more divine than human), we require only a single material and nothing else at all. For our water is pure and clear, not set into any other work nor mixed with any other body, but the clear one, which material is a substance of a water-like color, and the effect or final work appears in the regimen or proper governance. And know that a single material also requires a single glass vessel, which is called the vessel of Hermes, and a single glass requires each one, and a lid over each vessel, and a single vessel requires a single oven, namely the oven of Hermes, and the lid of the oven. So we now want to…First, describe the vessel of glass. Secondly, the vessel of earth, which in its neck should be the vessel of glass. Thirdly, the oven that should hold the former entirely in its neck. Therefore, the first vessel should be mostly of glass, which should be round and similar in shape to a half Hinlischer Moon. This vessel should have a hole in the neck, as you know. The description of the vessel of Hermes of glass is this:If you want, you can make the vessel a little in the shape of an eye. The description of the same is this:Or if you want it differently or longer, you can make the aforementioned vessel like an ampoule or a gourd with a small neck. The description of the same is this:So choose a form you want from each of these.Notice that the heavier or lighter the poles are, the better they are for our work, because the fire you make with them is more uniform and lasting. Therefore, the poles and similar materials are also suitable for our purpose. So now we want to describe the entire process and arrange and establish it ourselves, and this is the description.Pay attention to the practice and handling, and note that the aforementioned oven, which is called the oven of Hermes, is named so because in this process, what happens in that oven would be a waste of time and a destruction of the work. Therefore, we only want to proceed in the name of Almighty God to the practice and handling.Therefore, take the good Erzlichen or Erzäderliche, and not the artificial or man-made.There are 4 degrees or stages of fire, which are described in the 4th or 5th verses and mentioned in the rhymes. We will now proceed from degree to degree, explaining each degree of fire and interpreting the aforementioned verses and rhymes, in which the sum of the degrees of fire is further explained. It should be noted that the philosophers have concealed this knowledge or mastery, and no philosopher has spoken openly about the mentioned degrees, but rather they have alluded to them secretly and obscurely, only making mention of a light fire.Now, the first degree or stage is described in the first of the 4th or 5th verses, which in German reads: “His first form should rule with senses,” in Latin: “Primus formetur ut sensus ei dominetur.” This can also be expressed more clearly in German according to the previous meaning: “Thus, the first degree of fire is formed, so that the senses are kept in control.”This…We have also established how through the perforated shield or keyhole, the 4th degree and stage of fire can be made. Now it is true, since we have reported on the four degrees of fire, which are made through the perforated keyhole, it is necessary to describe the shape and form of the shield and its keyhole. But this is the description: Note that the shield should have a hole in its bottom in the center and midpoint, like a button on a rose, and around this hole in the center, there are 8 holes at equal distances from each other and from the same central point; therefore, we have laid out the first degree of fire, which is understood and designated in this verse and rhyme.Primus formetur ut sensus ei dominetur.
The first degree of fire will be made,
That the senses may hold dominion over it.Therefore, place ashes around it, but leave an open space in the middle. If you prefer and choose the fire to close the first degree in the stone shield, then keep in all things what I have taught you above, and observe and perceive.Now when the 100 days are ended, the fire of the second degree is completed as foretold, then let the matter swell and flow, or be poured out, and if the aforementioned swelling were 50 days, and then the matter forms some small stones in shape and likeness of hyacinths, but the fire of the second degree is increased until the foretold small stones appear, if you see the said small stones appear, then strengthen the fire of the poles and make the fire of the third degree, which in this verse or rhyme is understood and means:Tertius excedit, cuius tolerantia laedit.It is thus in German: The third degree is too much to endure. But it should be understood, concealed, and rhymed.The third is, however, another matter!Where too much is harmful.The coals should then be placed on the perforated salarium or sheet in several piles; they should not be covered or surrounded with ashes, as is done in the other two degrees of fire. As you have read above, the fire of the third degree in the perforated pan or bowl, as I have shown you in all detail and way above. The said fire of the third degree, you will use to incinerate or calcine the aforementioned stones or hyacinths over a hundred days; then within the said time of a hundred days, the stones will be incinerated or calcined and held with true and complete cohesion and fusion. If our material is completely calcined within the said time, it will also be completely calcined, then the fire of the third degree will be fully maintained until our…Our matter should be completely incinerated and purified. When we have thus whitened our matter, made it from white, and this white we call the permanent water, and we call it the spirit and the soul. After the whitening and purification of the matter, it is completed in the third degree of fire. Then follows the reddening of the material, which must occur and be completed in the fourth degree of fire, which is carried out with the fourth degree of fire with a steady whole flame, thereby bringing the medicinal matter to perfect redness, and thus its completion ends the entire preparation. Also, how to prepare and direct the fire in the fourth degree is further explained in this treatise, namely, as shown in the four degrees of preparation.Praise be to God always, Amen….part, or contrary, just as the sky is unbreakable, which, when it is needed, sends a moist day, then a warm one, then a cold one, then a dry one. Thus is also the root of life, the fifth essence, which God has created in nature, so that it may fulfill the necessities of the body (except without the last ceremony or endowment, which God has bestowed upon our life). And I have said that the Almighty has created the quintessence or fifth essence, which is drawn from the body or nature (created by God) with human art, named by philosophers in their writings, which is called aqua ardens or burning water, anima vini, the soul of wine, and spiritus vini, and aqua vitae or water of life. And if you wish to hide it, you may call it quintessence, the fifth essence, for it has its nature and being. The philosophers have not wanted to reveal its name, but have let those endowed with wisdom discover it.And that it is not cold or moist, as the element of water, we have shown here; that it would burn, the same is indeed the element of water, repugnantly resistant; that it is not warm and moist as the air, it becomes more capable; that the air is fragile and changeable, as is apparent in the breeding and growth of spiders and flies, this remains unbreakable; so it is well enclosed and preserved from decay and dissolution. That it is not cold and dry, as the earth, here it is shown that it is truly powerful and mightily hotter and warmer. That it is also not hot and dry, as the fire, is hereby evidently indicated; that it cools hot things and lessens and eases hot diseases, as I will explain later. That it remains unbreakable and preserves from fragility, I want to show with accepted experience….indicate and preserve. When any kind of bird or mixed meat or fish is placed therein, they remain fresh and unbreakable as long as they lie therein. How much more will it preserve living flesh and our body from all fragility. This is the fifth essence, the human heaven, which the Almighty has created for the preservation of the four qualities or complexions of the human body, just as the heaven preserves the entire universe. And I also know for certain that today’s or present philosophers and doctors do not know this quintessence at all, nor its truth or virtue. But I will reveal it to you with God’s help, and I have also taught a hidden secret thing about the fifth essence, which is the human heaven.Therefore, the quinta essentia is the fifth essence of nature and the heavens, and our sun adorns it, just as the Son of God adorns the heavens, and these two together already flow into us. I say in truth, the form/state and essence of the heavens of heavens, and the heavenly sun, that it is possible in the mortal or earthly nature for the preservation of life, and for the restoration and recovery of the lost, and for the renewal of youth, and for the abundance and perfection of the desired health.The third inquiry or exploration, namely of our stars, for the adornment of our heavens, to help the influence of our heavens and sun, to include the first beginning of life in us.As Solomon testifies in Ecclesiastes in the first chapter: All things are difficult, and man cannot interpret or express them with words.Therefore, the quintessence is the fifth essence of nature and the heavens, and our sun adorns it, just as the Son of God adorns the heavens, and these two together pour into us. I say in truth, the form and essence of the heavens of heavens and the heavenly sun, it is possible in the mortal or deadly nature to preserve life, and to restore and bring back what was lost, and to renew youth, and with abundance and perfection of the desired health.The third inquiry or investigation, namely of our stars, for the adornment of our heavens, to aid the influence of our heavens and sun, to influence the first beginning of life in us.As Solomon testifies in Ecclesiastes, in the first chapter: All things are difficult and hard, and man cannot explain or express them.The second Canon, this first book, reveals the secrecy of this mastery of the fifth essence, how and in what form our quintessence is extracted from the sun and the stars, and how it wonderfully influences and increases the inclusion of life and the health of our body, and finally from the mastery of the effect. The first investigation or exploration and foundation, etc.You should not think or consider that I hold a lie here, because I have called the quintessence a burning water and have said that none of the ancient philosophers and doctors have come to it, although the burning water is commonly found everywhere. But I have always truthfully said it, because the mastery of the quintessence is hidden, and I have never seen anyone who has understood it, except for a few public theologians who understood it, although from their own secrecy of their art and mastery, and I truly affirm that the quintessence…If you want to dissolve the thing or body, let it be mixed with the things that are inclined to it, as is written in the books of the philosophers. Then ignite glowing coals and blow on them with strong bellows. If you continue to do this slowly and weakly, the body will dissolve. As soon as it begins to disintegrate, it will descend through the plate into the arranged vessel.A 𐌾 𐌿Whoever joins me with my brother and my sister will find themselves in eternalSulphur
Mercury
Arsenic
Sol
Living Silver
Luna.The art and knowledge to extract the quintessence from quicksilver and Roman vitriol.The Almighty and Most High God has ordained that the fifth essence of vitriol and copper ore be invisibly drawn with quicksilver. Then, when the same is sublimated with common salt, it rises and the quicksilver becomes entirely white. After the tenth time, the quintessence of the vitriol and copper ore is without doubt sublimated. Then you have sublimated quicksilver with these two, and you have invisibly hidden the quintessence in the substance of the aforementioned quicksilver. This visible quintessence is called the sulfur of the philosophers, the sulfur of the philosophers which is invisible. Therefore, it is said that the sulfur is not the sulfur of the common people, namely common sulfur.The art of reducing and reintroducing sublimated mercury or its quintessence, separated into the water which is called by the philosophers Lac Virginum or Virgin’s Milk.In each sublimated spirit, such as the lye, the mercury, or its quintessence, or sublimated arsenic, or sulfur, or ammoniac, and especially understand here the sublimated mercury, you should thus reduce or reintroduce it into a water or into Virgin’s milk, according to the names of the new philosophers. And if you know this, take sublimated mercury or its quintessence, put it in a glass vessel or in a container that is wide and broad, and place it between the feet of an Anthonor, which is a type of philosopher’s oven. This is a wonderful method, so that what is done therein therein is immediately fixed or separated from each.
… mixed together, and in it is the secrecy of secrets, and a measure, a wondrous fire in the dwelling of all flying things in our anchorite; that is, in the oven, so that you through the door, which is made above the lamellae, put your hand in often, so that you may hold it without burning, if you desire to warm it. If not, the fire would be too great, so reduce it and take care in the fixation of all flying things in the same oven. It is necessary to seal the thing in the glass amphora and give a weak fire, so understand now the extraction of the quintessence in this part, for it is a thing greater than can be believed.
Here ends the treatise on the quintessence by Brother Ioannis of the Minor Order, called Rupicissa.
Planetary and Material Correspondences
Gold

Aurum cooked
Aurum leafed
Aurum laminated
Aurum hammered

Silver

Argentum pure
Argentum leafed
Argentum laminated

Pearl

Albula
Argiosfora
Argnosfora gem

Planetary Metals:

Sun = gold
Moon = silver
Mars = iron
Mercury = quicksilver
Jupiter = tin
Venus = copper
Saturn = lead

Herbs:

Heliotrope
Parsley
Greater plantain
Satyrion herb
Barba Jovis
Verbena or abrotanum
Centum capita goldwort

Poetic and Allegorical Sections
This saying belongs to the first figure on the 210th page.
A force torments me, a naked woman/
When unhappy was my first body/
And never was a mother born/
Until I was born a second time.
Then I gained all the power of herbs
In all frankness I was created.
I took my son’s name/
And came with him as another.
There I became pregnant with his word/
And bore on an unfruitful field.
I became a mother and yet remained a maiden/
And my weapon was attached to him.
That my son became my father/
As God has ordained in essential nature.
The mother who gave birth to me/
Through me she was born on this earth.
One considers this naturally with wonder/
That the birth has masterfully disappeared.
Thereupon four come into one/
In our masterly stone.
And find in threefold thought/
And in one being accomplished.
Who can consider this thoroughly,
To him is the power given.
That he may drive away all weakness,
From metals and human bodies.
Without God’s help, no one can build,
Only he who can see through himself.
From my nature springs a tree,
From which flows pure balm.
One thrusts towards the Orient,
And the other towards the Occident.
From which eagles fly and burn their feathers,
And fall pale into the earth below.
And the feathers become beautiful again,
And are subservient to Sun and Moon.
God, the Almighty, Creator good,
Has it all in His hand.
When He gives it forth,
The master takes the saying to heart.
That he considers the artificial life,
All body and soul are made even.
That they float into their father’s realm,
Thus the art holds itself on earth.
Symbolic Descriptions
The tree comes from the seed of man and woman. When the seed dies in the earth, it sprouts, and a tree grows with unspeakable fruit, manifold in effect.
b. Sun.
c. Moon.
d. The birds are the seeds of the sun and fly through the mountains of the moon into the heights of the heavens and bite into the faces and come back into the mountains and leave behind a white death.
e. The birds are the seeds of the moon and fly through the mountains of the father and mother into the heights of the heavens, take the light of the sun, and thereby become clear, and fall back into the mountains and leave behind a black death.
f. Distillator of the Sun.
g. Distillator of the Moon.
A
The birds rise to the sun and moon, and float in the heights, already through the clear sky, and take from there the riches of the sun and moon, and fly back into the feather realm, and take from there their natural food, and bring to the bird red and white. They die in their seed, through the heat of the sun and the moon.
B
Whoever takes the lion’s blood, does right by it, and burns his father’s body with glowing ashes with force, and pours therein the captured water, then a plaster is made from it that heals all diseases without burden, and becomes the highest remedy for humans, animals, birds, tin, copper, steel, iron, and lead.
A
If you want to open the locked castle,
Then observe diligently and carefully.
And attach the head to the tail,
Then you will find the art complete.
B
The bird is the drawn-out soul of our being.
C
The two birds are all born, white and red.
D
The red servant has taken a white woman, and in their mutual union, the woman became pregnant and bore a son, who in all things overcomes his father.
The tract is the seed of man and woman, which is born from the ash. As it feels the natural heat of the sun, it will spread around itself, turning green, and its nature will disappear. From this, a black mountain will spring forth, with red on top, sprinkled with white flowers, with a green meadow. Yellow flowers will grow with brown buds, large and beautiful. A golden crown with loud sound will appear above all, rich through the masterful art of alchemy, called Alchani. Whoever is truly wise, with heart, mind, and effort, will lift it from the glow, as the philosophers write about it. Through this, one can drive away all sickness and poverty among metals and human beings.
The king and the queen are mighty; they may not leave suffering unrelieved; give in to them; then they give their eyes and their head. Our king’s head is red, his feet are white, his eyes are black.
You shall honor the king and his queen, so that you do not know their wrath; therefore, they do not seize you and show you their wrath.
The king and the queen rejoice and are pleased in their royal style; for they are of one root, and therefore no foreign thing is among them; if it is mixed with them, they flourish.
A
The sword with the brown roses / strikes the presumptuous man dead.
B
The wing hovers by night / illuminated by the moon’s power.
C
The two crowns signify Sun and Moon / in their yellow colors clear / the art is fully accomplished.
D
The green wing is named / the green lion well known.
E
The crown of the timid spirit.
F
The crown of the steadfast spirit.
G
The tract signifies the two crowns / which float above them / one is blue / the other black / they make a good medicine / when they come together / that benefits humans and metals.
A
The wing of the green life / lifts itself into the air.
B
The wing of the moon illuminates the night’s beauty.
C
The stars signify the perfection of the stone / raised by the crown.
D
The snail signifies transformation / through the loss of its head.
E
The chalice of life / from which the snakes drink / and suffer death / through the living gold.
F
The tree of the sun / brings fruit and rest.
G
The tree of the moon is the sun’s trunk.
H
Through the red garment / the art shall be prepared.
I
Through the white garment / the art is fully prepared.
K
The mountain from which the sun’s tree grows.
L
The mountain of the moon / illuminates the night’s beauty.
M
The dragon adorns the two fountains / of the moon and sun / when it is its true food / through red and white / the art is brought to an end / as the philosophers have thought.
A
These are the birds of Hermes, with whose help he accomplished his work and art.
B
Hermes, a father, of the philosopher’s art I am called,
To many a philosopher’s son well known,
Therefore look at the table carefully,
What therein signifies Sun and Moon.
The two planets govern the art,
With the master’s favor.
And through the means of their nature,
The noble figure is accomplished.
So that all weakness is overcome,
And thereby gold and silver are made.
A
The well of the moon does indeed reward well / through its noble sweat / it makes the sun white.
B
The well from the sun / brings joy and warmth / and is a good bath / and refreshes many a person’s complexion.
C
From two waters, a water is made / if I understand my advantage / to which all riches are subject.
D
When the bodies are dissolved / the philosopher’s child rejoices / through the two waters / the noble plaster is made / that drives away all diseases / of metals and human bodies.
A
Here is the stone made volatile,
the permanent water is the mother
of a stone.
B
Here is the volatile stone made,
the philosopher’s medium is the father
of a stone.
C
The green shell signifies to us
the angelic art of the philosopher’s lute
thereby they have accomplished
the cap, which flies by night.
D
Through the brown shell you shall recognize
Hermes’ bird, which I am to name to you
it is called the white eagle
well known to many a philosopher.
Plato
Plato’s daughter calls and cries out: Preserve me, so I preserve you; grant me my right. That I help you, my son, and my strength are deep within me. Luna is entirely my own, and my light surpasses all lights, and my goodness of all goods is the highest and noblest to behold and fully comprehend. I gave birth to the light. But darkness is in my nature; unless my metal is melted, all bodies will despise me. Therefore, I destroy and dissolve and annihilate their impurity and purify their substance, so that I and my son are mixed and united together. There can be nothing better, nothing higher, nor will anything greater be found on earth. If my precious oil unites with me and drinks from the stream of the red stone and renews the well of its mother, and refreshes me with me, and in its bed kindly embraces me, and in my body its seed enters into my cells, so I receive…
I and we are pregnant, and in my time I give birth to the Almighty Son, who rules and governs over all kings and princes of the earth, crowned with a golden crown of eternal victory. Our green shield is the root of philosophy, from which springs the Treatise of Hermes and Aristotle, who destroys and blinds our king and queen, awakening them from death. We are born, or drawn, a white eagle, the so-called bird of Hermes, and the sharpness of gold is transformed into a true spirit, and without the flesh, it can neither be black, nor white, nor red.
I am crowned and with a diadem adorned, and in royal garments clothed, for in the body I enter into great joy. Rejoice, children of the wise, and be glad, for all together, death is overcome.
The new star shines and with the four streams. The other things are dead, but this elixir is a truth.
Trinity and Religious Symbolism
A
Form of the Mirror of the Trinity.
Forma Speculi Trinitatis.
B
Balsam. Mercury. Sun.
C
Spirit/ Wisdom/ Water of Holiness.
Spiritus, Sapientia, aqua Sanctitatis.
Day of Mercury, Wednesday.
D
Note/ A nature is here all things/
always tenfold he the Sun spirit/
all from his soul the Holy of Holies
Trinity Fountain/ Sun/ Gold.
B
This work is called the Spring of Grace.
C
This work is called the Fountain of Wisdom.
D
This work is called the Source of Honor.
A
The Light of the World.
Balsamus
David
Jesse, Charity, Love
Wisdom of the King, Love of the King, Honor of the King
This Monday
Young
A
Young all; thus is God Jesus Christ himself his holy spirit young all things/ earth, Lord.
B
That signifies all a heart is the holy spirit; therefore weapons go before him, and make his way beautiful.
C
Omnia sunt una esse, sanctus/luna, caritas
All things are one essence/holy/moon/love.
D
Red blood/Mercury/Venus, humanly is the abundance of the Son’s flesh/divine. God, Son, Father, are one, God/Son/Father/is one thing.
E
The Son’s flesh divine/humanly is the morning red blood/Sun, piety, justice.
A.
Joannes
B.
Marcus
C.
Lucas
D.
Matheus
E.
Jesse father
son & mother
Wisdom prophesied
Body
Soul
The name of the angel is called
Piety
Wisdom
Figure of the mirror of the Holy Trinity
Shape of the mirror of the Holy Trinity

Non de aqua vitae dixit Deus, cuius nomen sanctificetur, faciamus ex aqua Rem.
Note, from the water of life God has said, whose name shall be sanctified. So we want to make a thing from the water.
Planetary and Alchemical Trees

Sol (Sun)
Luna (Moon)
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn

Text on the left:

Unicorn
Prince
The beginning of the head of the raven

Text on the right:

Mars, head of the lamb
The end of the head of the raven

Text at the bottom:

Arbor
Der Baum
Der pg.
Lopschen

A
The tree indeed signifies to us
The art of the philosophers’ group.
And brings us three kinds of roses.
B
The track indeed signifies to us
The art of the philosophers’ group.
When it swings itself
And rises high.
Against Sun and Moon
It brings fruit without delay.
Flos
Red Rose
Flower of the Wise
White Album
A.
B.
Our Mercury
2nd Cucurbit
The other Cucurbit
Cucurbit first full of blood
The first fish eats more in the deep ground
And the noble stone will be found
A
Without permanent water, nothing exists: the water of life, also the juice of Napellus; hence in Turba, water is living silver: abstracted from all elements, from which all things are made.
Nothing may exist in nature/
Everything must come from its matter.
Without the permanent water, nothing happens. It is called the water of life, also the juice of Napellus; therefore it is said in Turba, the water is the quicksilver abstracted from all elements, from which all things are made.
Vege
Three faces in one man
The face in a person / Chapter 51
Mercury
Our
Fons Aeneus
Fons Argenteus
Seed of the Philosophers
The other part is silver
A
Vegetable male + Woman Elixir to
both,
Our Father crowned with a diadem.
The lovely preserving man/

The woman the Elixir to both/
Our Father crowned with a crown.

Natural Philosophy and Mineral Knowledge
The Earthly Kingdom is a mother of metals, and the sky is the father of the same, according to the teachings of Hermes. The earth is also pregnant with them, in mountains, fields, caves, waters, and other places.
Mercury is found in the damp and moist mossy grounds. Lay iron rust or filings and a tile or shard underneath, and cover with moss, so Mercury emerges. It is also often found in secret chambers or speaking tubes, as well as in the clay of soda wells and in the roof gutters.
Thus, one should burn antimony, take as much as you want, and place it on glowing coals. Blow on it with a bellows until it glows, and when it is glowing, take it out of the fire. If it stays there long enough, it will turn into the nature of lead.
Aristotle speaks of the nature, saying the shine or the white is born from the black and saffron yellow; the saffron color comes from the white and red; if the white is separated from the black, the saffron remains. If the saffron is separated from the white or shine, the red is left behind; and if you take the saffron from the shine, you will find the black; if the red is taken from the beautiful white, the saffron color is left behind.
Albertus Magnus says: This is the best alchemical effect among all alchemical effects, which comes from things from which nature comes, such as the purification of sulfur through boiling or distillation, and sublimation, and from the purification of mercury, and good mixing of the same, each form of every metal is brought forth and extracted.
Those, however, who whiten through white things or make white, and give yellow through yellow, and the form of the previous metal remains in the material, they are deceivers and do not make true gold and true silver.
The heat that works in the moist makes and brings first the black, and in the dry the white, and in the white the yellow.
Take aqua fortis that fixes and makes red the Mercury / Elixir / take saltpeter / Roman vitriol / of this lb. / dissolve and grind very well / then mix it all together in a well-luted cucurbit / and place it on an alembic / and lute it well with a lute made of rye flour / and let it distill with a small fire / so comes first a beautiful, clear, pure water / keep this separate from the other / the other to the third / and thus receive and keep…
Keep each vessel itself in a well-sealed gutter and be careful, so that no third water flows out, and the alembic becomes hot. Then seal the ampoule with the beak of the alembic, for it is a sign that the water is boiling or evaporating. When the strongest comes, and as soon as the alembic begins to turn white, stop adding fire and set the ampoule aside. Seal the receptacle with wax so that it does not leak, and from this aforementioned water take one ounce or half an ounce and add one ounce of living mercury and half an ounce of sulfur, and put this mixture into a glass. Seal it well and let it stand for one hour, so that it dissolves into a beautiful water. Once it is dissolved, place this dissolution with the well-sealed glass in a warm ash and distill it. You will find the dead mercury as red as minium and fixed, so that it does not evaporate from the fire at all.
…vanishes/goes away, and is a beginning of the other, and the third nature should be used completely; to each one its share, and thus through the same way may be purified and heated all spirits with the aforementioned water.
When you want to make a solution, you first cast it onto the complete corpus in this way. The corpus whose dissolution you seek should be dissolved and should also be liquefied, the medicine, and these said solutions should be brought together and united, then cast onto the corpus or onto the Mercury, so you will complete it perfectly in true perfection of the Sun or Moon.
Synonyms – An Extensive Alchemical Dictionary
Synonyms

Alabam, Abartamen: Capricornus, casfig, chibor, duoplum, draiccium, elerator.
Airazat: Plumbum, Bley, araxat, alusakot, amies, amioch, amitich, araxat, azoro, balaba, caristilius, koal, molybdos, mosfedei, molibra, mosider, rafas, rafasa, rolos, roc, rocli.
Abesum: Calx non extincta, vel calx viva, ungeslöschter oder lebendiger Kalch, albesten, abesten, acmorago, abesetus.
Abneleitem: i.e., alumen, astor.
Acazdir: i.e., stagnun, das ist Zinn/alkain, alomba.
Acaid: i.e., acetosum, das ist Essächtig/ oder saur.
Acarnech, acernech: i.e., auripigmentum, aznec, azarenech.
Acalmia, vel acabema: i.e., superfluitas argenti, das ist/ überflüssigkeit des Silbers.
Acacia ferrea: i.e., cochlear ferreum, das ist/ein eysern Löffel.
Abosit vel abit: i.e., cerusa, Bleyweiß/alkarat, almazchabar alsidem.
Abesamū: i.e., lutum rotae, Rad leym.
Acato, araxos: i.e., Ruß.
Acuste: i.e., nitrum, Salpeter.
Acureb: i.e., vitrum, glass.
Acetum: i.e., hal.
Acalif: i.e., aqua aluminis, fefeol.
Acalac: i.e., sal, saltz.
Acartum: i.e., minium, minigen/ oder miniten/ azemasor.

Abicum

Alembic: i.e., mercury.
Alechi: i.e., tripes, lion’s paw.
Albota, alsides: i.e., ceruse, white lead, asfidegi.
Albor: i.e., urine.
Almargen, armalgol, armalgen: i.e., coral, almarago.
Albotim or alborai: i.e., turpentine, terpentin, albuin, altstibat, albota, bora, deburum, helcabatan, helkaboni, helcaibat, helcalidar, kytra.
Albetad: i.e., galbanum.
Almarcab, almarchiar, almarchalz: i.e., litharge, lead oxide.
Aloe: there are three kinds, but in the art, hepaticum is understood, that is, aloe epaticum, alepatic.
Alcimad: i.e., ammonium, spiegeleisen, alcohol, alfasico.
Aludel: is an instrument for sublimation, or alutel.
Alkitram: i.e., liquid pitch, thin tar.
Alramadi: i.e., ash-colored, ash or ash color.
Aluec, allence, alkalap: i.e., stagnum, tin, aleth, almiba, allener, aserebran, asebum.
Alkibric, alkibert, algibic, alkibic: i.e., living sulfur, living sulfur, alchibric.
Alkin: i.e., calcined ashes, white ash, alkali.
Alima: is a kind of sand found in gold metals, from which lead is made.
Alkimia: from Greek to German, means lightness, or making joyful and courageous.

Alkania or admit, according to some, after some opinion it is a thing.

Albaras: i. arsenic.
Alcadp: i. white ink.
Alkaranium: i. green vitriol.
Alkaes: i. fine powder, a subtle powder/alcohol.
Alsafidda: i. burnt copper, burnt copper.
Alexir: i. alchemically prepared medicine, a medicine prepared alchemically.
Alkala: i. vessel, a vessel.
Alkale: i. hen’s egg, a hen’s egg.
Alofel: i. cloth with which a vessel is covered, a cloth that covers or closes a vessel.
Alunboi: i. burnt lead, burnt lead.
Alzilat: i. weight of three grains, weight of three grains.
Alsacta: i. distillation, distillation.
Alunfel: i. drop by drop.
Allabrot: i. a certain kind of salt made, a kind of salt made.
Almisadir, meradum, almifadu: sal ammoniac, salmiac.
Albi: i. sublimated, of the sublimated.
Alkofor: i. camphor.
Aligulus: i. confection, a confection or seed mixture.
Almagra: copper bolus.
Alchitram: i. arsenic prepared for washing, arsenic prepared for washing.
Alchieram: i. liquid pitch, thin pitch.
Altimio: i.e., six lead, lead ore.
Alkoel: i.e., lead exquisitely from the mine, lead from which the ore is extracted; some say it is lapis lazuli, lazurite, or it is antimony, glass of spies.
Alrambus: i.e., red stone, a red stone, namely the blood of human veins, namely, blood from the veins of men.
Almabri: is a stone like amber.
Alahatib: is lapis rubeus, a red stone.
Atebras, or uncus aquinus: i.e., sublimatory vessel, a sublimated material.
Alefantes: i.e., flower of salt, salt flower or sweet.
Algemer: i.e., carbon coal.
Almaatica: i.e., copper metal, raw copper metal / that is found in the mine or ore, like iron metal or ore.
Alma: i.e., water.
Aludir, antarc, azomes, azon: i.e., mercury.
Alkantum: is a type of ink.
Alfasir, aluasir: i.e., shell, a shell or herb.
Alatan: i.e., litharge of lead, lead glass, or bassinet glass.
Albantina: lapis salis lactis.
Almakisit, almakanda: litharge.
Alcore: a certain stone having leaves similar to silver, a stone whose leaves are like silver.

Spatt/ Altores, the same.
Alkir is fumus, is smoke/ as some say/ or carbones or coals.
Albir: i.e., pix de corticibus taxi, pitch from yew bark/ I believe it is the substance from which incense is made.
Almagra is red earth, it is a red clay/ with which the potters use it for glazing/ or moistening.
Altinuraum: vitriol.
Alkasa i.e., albot, alkazaol, the same.
Almechaiside i.e., copper.
Alcaol i.e., lac alterosum, sour milk/ or Mercury.
Alzofar i.e., burnt copper, burnt ore.
Alohoc, alosohoc, alosof i.e., Mercury.
Alumen alap i.e., alumen clacisle.
Alumen de alep, or sal graecus, or from Macedonia, Greek/ or Macedonian salt.
Alumen lamenum i.e., scissum, gypsum altar.
Alumen lose i.e., alumen plumosum, feather white.
Alumen alkori i.e., nitrum.
Alumen scarolum i.e., scissum.
Alumen scariole i.e., gypsum lamenicum, Jamenis white gypsum.
Alumen de pluma i.e., alumen scariola.
Alumen scissum ibidem unser Frauen white.
Alumen de pluma i.e., jamenis.
Alumen scissum i.e., amates.
Alumen albedane i.e., alumen zuccharinum.
Alumen de cristallo i.e., alumen roce, alum.
prescriptum de hoc, davon ist geschrieben im fünften Buch Alberti von den mineralibus, von den Dingen so aus den Erzten kommen.
Alumen i. anthimonium.
Alumen philosophorum: eyer schalen falch / amosa, amiora.
Amassa i. confice mach zusammen / conficier.
Amassare i. conficiern / ein pulver zu einem Teyg machen.
Amene i. sal commune gemein Saltz / apostolus.
Amalgama vermischung.
Anterit i. Mercurius.
Amongabriel i. zynobrium, Zinober.
Antingar, attringar: borax, Borrax.
Antimonium i. aikafol.
Animal ein Thier / antropos, i. homo ein mensch / anima dicitur esse in arsenico, es wirt gesagt ein Seel sey im arsenico.
Ancora i. calx, Kalch.
Ancosa i. lacka.
Antrax i. carbo ein Kol.
Anatron i. amatron i. sal nitri.
Anatron i. fex vitri Glassgall
Anatron i. baurac
Anatron i. fagimen vitri
Anthonor, athonor i. furnus ein Ofen.
Annora i. calx de testis ouorum eyer schalen falch / uel calx viuia oder sunst lebendiger kalch,
Anhelitus i. fumus, rauch / Alibi fimus equinus Roßmist.
Anthimonium est lapis de uena plumbi ist ein stein of Bleyader/spiegelglas.
Anucar i. anucar i. borac.
Ancicar
Andarac i. auripigmentum rubeum, red auris pigment.
Anfaha i. coagulum.
Amentum i. alum scissum, split alum.
Ambra is sperm of the whale. Is sperm or seed of the whale fish. That is not, but undoubtedly it is a gum from a tree that grows in the sea.
Apensalus: is a vessel in which it is placed, has a narrow mouth.
Aoas i. ore.
Aquila i. aqua fortis, strong water. It is also called Salmiac/Sal ammoniac.
Aquila i. gold by dripping, fidelo, noble, fedalo.
Aquila i. arsenic, or sulfur.
Aqua cerebri i. aqua tartari, tartar water.
Aqua vitrae i. Mercurius.
Aqua pluvalis i. fresh water.
Aqua nitri i. alkali salt.
Aqua salmatina i. made from salt, water made from salt.
Aqua i. liquor a thinness.
Aqua marina: saltwater.
Aqua alme: is a water made from hairs through sublimation.
Aqua rubicunda, aqua megi, aqua segi i. aqua vitrioli.
Aqua alregi i. lime water, are hot waters.
Aqua palestina i. a green of copper or green of Spanish green.
Aquarius: i.e., iron water.
Aqua eislabo: i.e., common salt water, the same.
Aqua holsobon: bread salt water, common salt water.
Aqua lilii: i.e., orpiment water.
Arfar: i.e., arsenic, orpiment.
Arsenicum rubeum: i.e., red orpiment, saffron-colored orpiment.
Argyrus: i.e., silver stone, a silver stone.
Arenamen: bolus Armenus.
Arenarmei: clay, potter’s clay or hearth.
Argyros: silver, silver leaf is called Lithargyros, silver stone (silver stone), then Lithos is called stone.
Argentum vivum: Mercury, the servant of the fluid spirit, asoc, hydrogiros, sanlatum, anaryg, asoc, zaylat, azehoc, Kyregiros, white smoke, alsohoc, alsohoc, afob, azor, azec, alozet, azaor, anarid, draco.
Arsenicum: i.e., Greek niter, Greek niter.
Argentum vivum: i.e., spirit.
Argentum populi: i.e., bitter salt, bitter salt.
Acortinus: i.e., lupinus hybon.
Argillata: i.e., incinerated, grown.
Arcos: i.e., burnt copper, aycophes, azafora.
Armoniac salt: i.e., star salt, the same.
Asafetida: a gum, devil’s dung.
Arsenij: i.e., laeten.
Aspaltum: i.e., copper flower.
Aspaltum: i.e., red bitumen, red pitch or bitumen.
Azegi, azec: i.e., ink water.
Azec: i.e., green ink.
Azagor: i.e., green of copper, azragar.
Auraric: i.e., mercury, azoch, azog, azet, Besech, besech.
Azamar: i.e., vermilion, azymar the same, or cinnabar.
Azernac: i.e., alfalfa.
Azimar: i.e., flower of copper, or burnt copper.
Azub in Arabic, in Latin alum, azel.
Azemafer: i.e., minium or cinnabar.
Azedegim: i.e., emathites.
Azuc: i.e., red coral, red corals.
Azegen: i.e., dragon’s blood, azogen.
Azurie: i.e., red vitriol.
Azaa: i.e., magra, red earth.
Azeff: i.e., split alum.
Azins: is a stone from which salt is made.
Azubo: another vessel, another container/Bedogar.
Azem: i.e., cooked butter, fattened goose.
Azei: i.e., ink.
Azumen: i.e., weight, mass/baccatum.
Azeg: i.e., vitriol, azezi, azegi.
Azenfali: i.e., a black stone that is found in gold, it is also moss that grows on rocks.
Azamo: i.e., Indian color.
Aseph: i.e., split alum.
Azanec: i.e., armoniacus.
B.
Battitura of copper: i.e., scales of metals, scales of metals, called lepidus in Greek, in Arabic cubel, or tubel, or rubel, or soot, in German hammer stroke.
Batitura rami i.e. squama veneris, copper slag/ copper filings/or copper ash.
Baiac i.e. cerusa bleuweis.
Bagedia i.e. libra 12, unciarum, the medicinal pound/ weight 12 ounces.
Bayda i.e. vessel upon which is distilled, a dish that is used for distillation.
Bakiam i.e. bean, a son.
Balneum mariae i.e. warm water.
Barach panhs i.e. nitrum salis.
Based, besed: i.e. coral Belefis.
Barcata i.e. meatus ignis, the passage or course of fever.
Baul i.e. urine, harm.
Baltictera i.e. red earth, red earth.
Basara i.e. seed, son.
Bardadia i.e. libra.
Baurac i.e. any kind of salt, any type or category of salts/as some say/some distinguish differently than Baurac, denequat, borago, borax, vritar, angar.
Baurac i.e. boras.
Baurac i.e. salgemma.
Baurac i.e. saphirium lithargyrum albificatum, white made smooth.
Baurac is a type of salt Alzedi & Diabesis i.e. testudo argenti vivi, a piece of quicksilver.
Baurac i.e. salt of glass, glass foam, glass salt/ glass rust/glass foam: salt of glass glass gall.
Baurac i.e. attinckar.
Baurac i.e. any kind of saltiness any type
Types of salt / or salinity and may be understood by every salt.
Baurach acutum: i.e., sal coctum, boiled salt.
Baurach is plaster with which you join broken pieces of gold / with vinegar and flour.
Baurach is also salted nitrum, Armenian / or sulfuric.
Baurach, comes from the foam of glass / or the nitre.
Batitura aëris: i.e., cubeletus.
Beelisis: i.e., Katanos.
Belefon: i.e., balsamus.
Bezar vel besa: i.e., lapis viridis, a green stone.
Berrionis: i.e., colofonia, i.e., pine resin.
Bernix, uernix, classa: gum of juniper, and bernix is an oil made from linseed and classa / with which colors are made shiny and strong / varnish.
Berna: i.e., vas vitreum, a glazed vessel / birminia.
Bereos: i.e., round, round.
Biladen: i.e., calips or calybs, steel.
Bodagi: i.e., aliud vas, another vessel.
Blicare: i.e., pressil praeparatum, a prepared press.
Braricia: i.e., vitrum, glass.
Burina: i.e., pitch, pitch.
Bolus armenus: terra carpentariorum, red stone.
Brase: i.e., carbones, coals.
Brumati terreum vas vitreum: a kind of glazed vessel like a book.
Botamum: i.e., burnt lead, burnt lead.
Borades: i.e., filings, filings.
C.
Calcanthum: i.e., green vitriol, green vitriol.
Calcanthum, and calcitis in Greek is a type of vitriol.
Calceos in Greek, in Latin aes, in German Erz.
Calcantos, or also calcanthum, is the flower of copper.
Calcanthum: i.e., for use or for tanning.
Calcanthum: i.e., vitriol.
Calcat or colocat, or red ink
Calcadinum: i.e., vitriol.
Calcanthum: i.e., flower of copper.
Calcanthum viride: i.e., vitriol.
Calcanthum is vitriol or ink as in Alexandria.
Calcandi or calcadis are the worst of the inks.
Cab.: i.e., gold.
Cabel: i.e., dung, state, or condition.
Cabebi: i.e., iron scales, iron filings.
Camer, cames: i.e., silver.
Cobalstoli: i.e., ashes.
Cabalatur: i.e., saltpeter.
Caduria: i.e., tutia.
Caccabus: i.e., a vessel containing three choirs, a dish. That which holds three choirs, otherwise it is called a pan.
Cacinperico: warm horse dung.
Calcecumemon, calcucementum, casticiu: i.e., for use, calceucium, costicium, calcute, endebustum.
Cali: i.e., alum of Yemen.
Cal: i.e., vinegar.
Cali: is also ash of nails, Weyd ashes.
Calx grumme, calx meri: i.e., tartar.
Calidicum: i.e., medicine from arsenic, a remedy from arsenic.
Satrobit: i.e., earth, soil/earthy/hearth.
Cinís clavellatus: i.e., alkali.
Carsia: i.e., saltwater.
Carma: i.e., gold filings, gold particles.
Corallus: belilis.
Cepa porci: i.e., sea onion.
Chalchos: Greek/Latin ore, German ore.
Cuprum, ses, Venus idem, cancer.
Cuperosa: i.e., vitriol.
Cathimia: silver foam.
Cathimia ferri: Sindelstein.
Cinericium: is a goldsmith’s herb/thing that burns out gold or silver.
Cacia ferrea: i.e., iron spoon, an iron ladle.
Cymolia: is a certain substance; white earth, and is called marl.
Cerebrum arietis: is water from eyewash.
Cerare: i.e., to incorporate, to mix, to knead/mix.
Cimentare: i.e., in cements, to compose or make a mixture.
Cor, ignis: or the greatest heat, almost great heat.
Cerober: water.
Cerebrum bovis: i.e., burnt tartar, burnt cream of tartar.
Concha: i.e., a pot, a basin. Or cynobrium, dragon’s blood.
Cancer coelestis.
Cardanum: garden saffron or its seed.
Cantacon: i.e., crocus horulanus, garden saffron.
Cyrocnia, crocomma: i.e., oil and crocus.
Cymolea or chymolea, closure.
Chymus i. mass.
Cor. i. fire, fever.
Canutum i. reed or cane, canutum idem, a pipe or flute.
Garmiti i. obulus, a heller.
Cœnum i. filth, dirt.
Cynnia, cymia, carora i. a vessel similar to a urinal, a vessel like a urine glass.
Cucurbita cœca: is a vessel or pot/basin in which dissolutions or distillations of salts or other things are coalesced with vapor or are passed through.
Cinis hædere i. clove ash.
Canze, carnit, canna, cusanum: various types of vessels.
Cibario is as much as ceratio in coction, prevention takes place.
Ceratio: is a substitution or subtilization, of the parts, so that virtues and strength are extracted and dispersed into the body and moisture, which is necessary in the art of complements or fulfillment. And such ceration is not done only with crushing and sprinkling, so that it becomes like a wax, which easily melts or becomes soft in tempered heat. And note that such ceration, or growth, has been entirely invented by the present masters.
Conum i. Law
Capillus i. lapis rebis.
Camphor is a gum of a tree.
Cazdir: i.e., stannum, tin.
Chazef: i.e., testa figuli, a potter’s shard.
Cedria is cedar gum.
Cerdac: i.e., mercury.
Cerusa is lead rust, bleirost/bleiweiß, called in Greek psimithium, or psimithium, or aphidegi.
Centrum ovi: i.e., vitellus ovi, egg yolk.
Chrislon, or chrisos: i.e., gold.
Chrisocalchos: i.e., aurichalcum, brass/golden ore.
Cynnabar, zingifur, cynobrium: cinnabar.
Cyrinum: i.e., pallidum, lead yellow/sulfur yellow.
Cucurbita agrestis: i.e., wild gourd.
Cathimia: glett/gold foam/copper foam or the truest/sindel stone.
Chroma: i.e., color, color.
Coagulum: i.e., mercury.
Cuperosum: is a vein of the earth/a copper ore vein.
Cuperosa: copper rust.
Conder: i.e., thus, olibanum, frankincense.
Corocrum: i.e., fermentum, yeast/sour dough.
Colcator, calcadis: types of vitriol/of the natural knoll.
Calcitis, calcitis, calcotar: red ink.
Curtuma or curcuma, a saffron-colored root called lesser sidonia.
Cabeh: i.e., iron scale, iron scale.
Curcuma: is also a yellow vein/which is called sidonia, which the dyers also use.
Cortex aeris: i.e., flower of brass.
Chelidonia: herb of the swallows/or a vein of the earth.
Coloccul: i.e., minium montanum, mountain minium.
Cathimia: is the smoke that rises from the burning of ores and attaches to the upper parts.
Cathimia: i.e., aurum, Gold.
Cathimia is a vein of the earth from which gold or silver is taken, according to almost all masters: Cathimia grows in gold or silver mines. Also, Cathimia affidia, i.e., cathimia of silver according to the color of litharge, which is burnt lead.
Clismia eseps: i.e., cathimia auripigmenti, it also has a glowing color, or azure, and is similar to the cathimia of silver, but cathimia is simply taken for itself alone, sedecir cretam argenti, which would be silver chalk.
D
Danic: i.e., weight of 6 barley grains, a weight of six barley grains.
Dabat: i.e., juice.
Daram: i.e., gem.
Dansir, densir: i.e., sand.
Debessis: i.e., tortoise, a turtle.
Daib, deheb, deheheb, deab: i.e., aurum, Gold.
Denodatio, entnüpfissung: i.e., dissolution, separation.
Dem, dehin: i.e., human blood, human blood.
Dehen Arabic, is a kind of oil, or all oils except tree oil, which is called Zaic, or der zaich.
Dehenez, duenez, duhenec: i.e., Roman vitriol, Dehenes, i.e., ink.
Dragantum is a gum; some say it is vitriol.
Digegi: i.e., hen or rooster.
Dragantum vitriolum, which is called Zegi.
Dracacium: i.e., Saturn.
Dikalegi: i.e., stagnum tin/ditalem, dicalegi.
Dragantum: i.e., Spanish vitriol, Spanish vitriol.
Denequat: i.e., borax.
Derquet: i.e., varnish.
Dyamassien: i.e., copper flower, deliatiteos.
Dehene: i.e., blood.
Duenez, doeneck: i.e., iron filings, iron shavings or filings.
Duenes: i.e., ink.
Duamir is a type of snake, with which one makes the Triar.
Decimar is lead in nature.
Saturn and Jupiter
Venus and Mars
Gold and silver.
Two brothers, the two brothers.
Two brothers, who are two brothers, cedar and mischat.
Digestio: means a change or transformation of one thing into another through the heating and cooking of nature.
Dragantum: there are four types: Indian, Arabic, which is yellow, Ciprinus, which is green.
E
Elz i. copper flower.
Elopitinum: dragon’s blood, vitriol.
Epar i. air or ether, the sky or the upper element.
Aes appodiatum i. filed, sealed ore.
Elidrium i. gum, mastic.
Eposilina i. iron scale, iron scrap.
Entale is something, a creature.
Elidrium is a mixture of gold and silver, made from two parts silver, one part gold, and one part copper.
Edes i. gold, Elempnis.
Elzimar i. copper flower.
Elanula is a kind of alum like iron.
Elixir or elixir is a penetrating and crystallizing medicine, made from vegetables, i.e., from four spirits or juices, with the addition and joining of a body, which body is a ferment of a medicine.
Elerisna: the handling or collection of silver, or a silver vein, or lead ore, a silver course, and is called molybdena.
Embula is a creature like a deer; according to a philosopher, it is as much as a cane, a rose, or a flute, a pipe.
F.
Faba agrestis i. Lupinus, vetch.
Felilech, faules i. iron, iron filings.
Fedum i. crocus.
Smoke of the house or hut, hut smoke.
Faulx i. calibs steel.
Fadir i. casdir, i. Jupiter.
Indian iron, Indian iron, is the best of iron, which is sometimes set for steel.
White feces, are red or saffron-colored water.
Fecla i. sediment of wine or vinegar, dregs of wine or vinegar.
Feruzegi i. stagnant metal tin metal.
Ferrugo: scoria of iron, cacaferi, sindelstein.
Fex vitri i. salt of glass glass salt.
Fermentum album i. argentum silver fields.
Femina i. sulfur (sulfur).
Fidda, fishde i. moon.
Fyada i. Mercury’s white smoke.
Fider, fidex, fidez: i. cerulean lead white.
Firex i. oil oil.
Fiola i. a glass with a long neck.
Eirfir i. color rubeus a red color.
Fislarum i. confection of sal ammoniac, a confection of salmiac.
Fixio fixation or solidification.
Fom i. sound or night, a sound or voice.
Flos aeris: copper slag or verdigris.
Fures candidi: called red water.
Furnus panis: almost a hot oven.
Furnus sabuli: warm sand.
Filius unius diei i. egg one egg/one son of the day.
Son of Venus: i.e., aurichalcum, a type of brass.
Firmamentum: i.e., lazurium, azure.
Flox: i.e., flame.
Flos salis: salt flower or blossom; in Greek, alasanthos.
Fuligo: soot.
Furogi: i.e., gallus, a rooster.
Falcanos: which by another name is called arsenic, and by common people auripigmentum.
G
Gala: i.e., milk.
Gasfar: i.e., lomus.
Galaxia: i.e., starry appearance or purification.
Gesor: i.e., galbanum.
Gebalum: i.e., reparandium, coagulate the same.
Gecharsun, difdaha: i.e., rana, a frog.
Gir, gith: i.e., calx viva, quicklime.
Gich, gepsin: i.e., gypsum.
Gibum: i.e., cheese.
Gi: i.e., earth.
Gaza fumai: i.e., smelter smoke.
Gitenon: i.e., common clay.
Gi: which painters use, is what adheres to the glass ovens/chimneys or in the glassmaker’s as a glaze.
Glisomargo: i.e., white chalk, a beautiful white chalk, and is a joy to the bleachers, mixed with a fat hearth.
Gluten: i.e., ox gall.
Gislin: i.e., gum.
Gersa i. cerussa, white lead.
Gutreo i. gum which is marine.
Glomer i. round, round, and is called a ball.
Gosel i. horned animal, a horned beast.
Girgies i. white river stones, white pebbles.
Gipsum i. Armenian earth or gypsum.
Glassa: a type of varnish, dry varnish.
Gatrinum i. clove ash, incense.
Grassa i. atrincar or borax.
Granum viride is the fruit of the terebinth tree, the fruit of the larch trees.
Granum nil is Indian seed, used to dye cloth.
Guaril i. lizard, a mole.
Gummi asimar i. almond tree gum, almond tree gum.
Gummi arboris nucum i. poplar tree gum.
Girmer i. tartar, wine stone.
Gummi Cedri from Cedars.
Cedria or cedrina in Latin
Kedria
Kidria } Greek
Kiran
alkitran } Arabic
Xerbin says Avicenna.
Gobeira
Mespila
Agabor } powder, dust, or powder-like.
H.
Hal i. vinegar, some call it.
Hesimic a quarter of a pound, a quarter of a pound.
Hara i. juniperus, Juniper.
Halacium i. sal armoniacum, Salmiac.
Harmat i. fructus juniperi, Juniper berries.
Hager i. stone.
Hidus i. copper flower.
Hadid i. iron, Iron.
Halimar i. copper.
Hunc i. Jupiter, tin, or hucci, Tin.
Helenesed i. coral.
Holsebon, helsaton, hesebon i. common prepared salt, common salt.
Hispanicum viride, Hyspalensis i. green copper from Spain, green.
Helle i. mistletoe.
Helunhai is the ring of Solomon in the art of necromancy, is a ring of Solomon in the black art.
Hisimat i. silver foam, Silver foam.
I.
Idam i. powder, a mush.
Isides i. ceruse or lead ash, White lead, or white lead.
Idroagira i. alkaline water.
Idroagiros i. to fill a vessel or to fill a vessel and do.
Ignis algir i. the strongest fire, the strongest fire.
Ignis elementaris i. sulfur, but not common, sulfur, but not of the common people.
Ignis sapientum i. hot horse dung, warm.
merosmisit.
Ignis clare ardens i. sulphur.
Ignis extinctus i. sulphur extinctus, yellowish sulfur.
Ignis: according to some opinions, is what foams from distillation.
Ios i. poison, venom.
Iumnisum, vel iumnizum i. fermentum, yeast/ sour, leaven.
Jupiter i. stagnum, tin.
Indicum sal i. sal gemma, Indian salt.
Indicus color: light blue color.
Imbibere i. terendo inspissare, as in Alexander, is to make thick by rubbing, as in Alexander, to drink, to soak in.
In marble or in a mortar to grind, on a marble or in a vessel to rub.
Iussa i. gypsum stone.
Ipacedes i. goat’s beard, goat’s beard.
Iota, iora i. green branches.
Iuenba i. bride of the sun.
K.
Kayl i. sour milk, sour milk, curd.
Kal i. salt of torente.
Karabe i. gum like saffron, is amber.
Kali i. ash with nails, weed ashes, or the ash which is called alkali.
Kapril i. sulphur.
Kar i. gem shining like fire, a precious stone/ that shines like fire.
Kazdir, kasdir, kacir, kassiceros: i.e., tin.
Kamar, or camar: i.e., silver, kyama.
Kamir: i.e., fermentation.
Kaysir: i.e., sea foam, properly pumice, it is actually called bims.
Kald: i.e., vinegar.
Kalnos: i.e., smoke.
Khanzeh, or xachf: i.e., potter’s shard, a potter’s fragment.
Kanfor: i.e., tin.
Koma, komartos: i.e., quicklime, living lime.
Kasam: i.e., iron.
Konis: in Greek, i.e., ash.
Kymus: i.e., mass.
Kymia: is the upper vessel or cucurbit, through which distillation occurs.
Kuria or kymia, i.e., mass, therefore it is also called alchemy or alchymy.
[Illustration of a distillation apparatus labeled “Kymia”]
This vessel should be under the earth,
Kybrig, kebrick: i.e., arsenic.
Kymenna: i.e., flask.
Kyua: i.e., opoponax.
Kyram: i.e., snow.
Kynum or kyminum, i.e., coadunation, a joining together.
Kymolea is the mud that gathers under the grindstone or whetstone, where weapons are sharpened or polished; it is also called chymolea.
Kali is a salted herb or plant that, when burned, curls up into a mass; in our language, it is called soda, from which glass is made. But the salt that flows out during the glass-making process is called sal alkali.
Kali in Arabic is called vlnen; Rasis, however, says that kali is alum affur.
Katimia is called kadmia in Greek, in Latin calamina, or lapis calaminaris. Galamy is a root of Tutia. In truth, it is the Tutia itself, for it is the stone with which the ore is colored. In the upper part of the furnace, it is the true Thutia, which is called ponpholix.
L.
Lanx: i.e., amygdala amara, bitter almond.
Lac papaeris: i.e., opium.
Lacune: i.e., terra sigillata.
Later, latro: i.e., argentum vivum.
Lamac: i.e., Gummi Arabicum.
Lans: i.e., argentum mortuum, dead silver.
Lapis de montanis: i.e., testudo, Rebis.
Lamare, lamne: i.e., sulfur.
Lires: i.e., lapis calaminaris, or lapis aurichalci.
Lapis calaminaris: i.e., Tutia, according to Peter the Great.
Lapis calcis: i.e., copper slag, or copper dross.
Lapides calcis: i.e., iron.
Lazarat: i.e., lazurium, lazurite, azure.
Latro fugitivus: i.e., mercury.
Lanna: i.e., orpiment.
Lignum crucis: i.e., oak mistletoe.
Lithargyrium or almagrach, is a metal ash.
Laos: i.e., pond.
Lutum Armenicum: i.e., bolus.
Lubam, luben: incense, he means the one from Lebanon.
Lotici: i.e., urine.
Leo viridis: i.e., vitriol.
Leo: i.e., gold.
Leo citrinus foliatus: i.e., orpiment.
Lebeten: casting mold.
Leo viridis: according to some, is gold.
Lempnias calcis: i.e., copper dross.
Leta: is a red color, red dye.
Lociun: i.e., infant urine.
Lepsia: i.e., arsenic.
Lempnias, lemnia: i.e., orpiment.
Lempnia is an earth where gold grows; it is gold ore.
Laton: i.e., brass.
Lutum Magistri: clay of mastery, i.e., made by Freyden and explained.
Lepos calcis: i.e., copper powder.
Lutum armenum: i.e., Armenian bolus.
Leuz i. amygdala.
Leucasia i. quicklime.
Lutum magra i. red stone.
Lapis rebis i. tortoise.
Luna i. silver.
Lorus i. Mercury.
Lentiscus arbor i. mastic tree.
Limpidum i. pure or purified, is clean / or purified/clear.
Libda i. filter, felt.
Lapis adir i. sal ammoniac, salmiac.
Lapis aureus: called urine itself, is called by the philosophers the hair; as it is found in Latin. But one author says that lapis aureus is the hair / or rather the blood of the animals.
Lapis famosus, or lapis preciosus, are the same hair of the head, or lapis preciosus, or famosus, is salt of urine, salt from urine.
Lapis animalis a (human blood) human blood blessed stone. (blood)
Lapis philosophicus i. elixir.
Lapis maior i. the spirit extracted from the bodies.
Lapis maior: according to some opinions, is the calcined and purified body.
Lapis maior is composed of four elements, and is called the son of one day, the son of one day.
Lapis Iudaicus bladder stone, or lapis agapis.
Lapis philosophorum: are the hair of man.
The stone that is extracted from man, the stone that is drawn from humans, is the blood of humans.
Lapis oculus, lapis benedictus: i.e., egg.
Lapis lunae, afroselenium, and specularis are the same.
Lepis ferrei: is the scale of iron, iron scale, and is also called lepidus.
Lithargyrum or lithargiros, is the foam of silver, silver foam.
Sealed clay: i.e., terra sigillata.
Lapis animalis: i.e., curenta quae scutum portat in dorso, a kind of turtle.
Lapis vini: i.e., tartar.
Lithargyrum: the stone in which gold grows.
Lempnias: some have interpreted it as auripigment, but it is false, for it is terra sigillata that is red in color.
Lapis hematitis: bloodstone, also called thus because the stone is blood-colored, or because it serves for all bleeding.
Lapis rebis: is the hair of choleric or sanguine people.
Lapis non lapis: i.e., Elixir, the Elixir is called a great treasure.
Lapis non lapis: is called by some mercurius; Lapis he calls it, that it is stone by its power, not stone by its nature. Avicenna and Rodar say that lapis non lapis is the Elixir, and is called lapis stone, that it is melted or colored, not stone, not stone, that it is poured.
Lapis lazuli: Lapis lazuli / Is twofold / One is so hard that it does not yield to iron / Sky blue in color / It is praiseworthy / The other is soft / Light color / like terra azarina.
M.
Marcellus i. malleus magnus, a large hammer.
Madie i. milk after butter / Mild in taste.
Manna, mamma: is that / With which the glasses are glazed.
Malanter i. opium.
Mellipodium i. burnt lead.
Magra i. red earth, red clay.
Micha i. Venus.
Masellum, mosel i. Jupiter.
Mars i. iron.
Marcasita i. calchiteos.
Malthedorum i. salt gem.
Manheb i. slag, cinder stone.
Marcasita plumbea i. antimony.
Magra i. carniolus or carneolus.
Maruch i. oil, same metal.
Magnesia is a stone in the strength of marcasite, or it is a stone similar to hematite. Also magnesia i. female lead, magnesia Wysmat or deaf ore.
Marcasita i. trissit of the ore / like climate trissit of gold / and antimony trissit of lead is.
Masculus i. quicksilver.
Magnesia i. fetid or sulfur.
Marcasita aba: called Gilberti or Wysmat.
Machuel: i.e., stone, rock, place.
Manbruck: i.e., silver.
Massalis, mosel, masserium, mater: i.e., mercury. Month of philosophers, a month of philosophers is 40 days.
Marchech: i.e., litharge.
Merdasengi: i.e., from burnt lead, a powder of burnt lead.
Mere: i.e., sulfur.
Nesel: i.e., tin, zinc, mosel idem.
Mergen, Bassec: i.e., coral.
Melech: i.e., salt.
Metas: i.e., weight, measure, mecal, mekal.
Melusi: i.e., mercury, albach, messalis.
Mercurius: i.e., quicksilver, cc. S. Z.
Mesbra: i.e., Alexandrian tutia.
Meleelhon: i.e., mulberry.
Mest: i.e., vinegar, maisal, masal.
Menfrice: i.e., massix.
Merallum: is fused silver, combined glass silver.
Misres: i.e., asphalt.
Minium: is a genuine red color and burnt lead.
Minera: i.e., vein of the earth, a vein of the earth, an ore vein.
Misladir, mixadir: i.e., sal ammoniac.
Mineralia: the place of the mines.
Michack: i.e., copper.
Molipdides: i.e., lead stone, or lead.
Molipdina: i.e., gold leaf or silver leaf or trus.
Sen/Pliny says: Are they the common vein / or course of iron and silver.
Mos. i. myrrh.
Mulcedar, mulcordat i. draconis.
Muzadir
Musadir
Misadir
Lixadram
Misserassi i. gypsum.
N.
Nardinum i. oil, also called oil.
Nabasaphar i. mineral vapor i. aurichalcum, moss,
Nar, pir: i. fire fear.
Napta i. gum.
Nafta, Sinapta i. petroleum or asphalt.
Nararon i. nitrum, or natron.
Nitron i. glassmaking.
Nitrum i. white salt, a white salt / namely borax.
Nitrum i. Soap.
Talk.
Nysadir, nussladay, nestudar i. sal ammoniac, Salmiac.
Nigella i. Rats.
Nitrum: is a type of salt / Also it is borax / of various kinds of Armenian, some black / some red / some sapphire.
Nitrum is lapis salis, a salty stone i. sulfur album.
Nitrum Alexandrinum i. clove ash, Weydaesh.
Nochath, nuchat: venus, brass, ore/nuchor.
Naphta alba i.e. white petroleum, Nemphor.
Nuba i.e. copper.
Nora is any salt, any kind of salt.
Nora i.e. lime, chalk.
Nora i.e. nitrum, a type of salt.
Nosiddiach i.e. artum.
Noas Arabic/kalcos Greek/es Latin/ore German.
Noas i.e. brass or copper, Noac, the same.
Nuhar i.e. venus or brass, Nuaz the same.
Nusiadat i.e. ammoniacum.
Nocasit i.e. sieve, or perforated vessel, a sieve, or perforated vessel with which one strains.
Noera i.e. cover of distillation vessels, a cover or a distiller’s cover.
O.
Obrisum aurum i.e. pure gold, clear gold.
Onix i.e. nail.
Oriza i.e. rice.
Ocob i.e. sal ammoniacum, or ocop, Obac, ocab.
Optos i.e. roasted, baked.
Orms i.e. hen, a hen.
Oriens i.e. urine.
Occidens i.e. vinegar.
Occidens stella i.e. sal ammoniacus.
Ozo i.e. arsenicum.
Oxos i.e. vinegar, Palestinian oil i.e. vinegar.
Oxy: Greek/means sharp.
Orale i.e. vessel.
Ovum i.e. blessed stone.
Ozeman i.e. white of eggs, white of eggs.
Orogama i.e. gold.
Osfor i.e. opium.
Obelchara i.e. pumpkin.
Ops metallim i.e. quicksilver,
Opsilare i.e. to cover or stop work.
Ocra: yellow earth, which the painters use, and is called ocher.
Blessed oil is made with bricks.
Oil of wheat, called individually, is made in two ways, namely, with a glowing plate and by ascending distillation.
Sulfur oil is sublimated or elevated vapor from the prepared sulfur.
Oil is also called the first water, which is distilled from blood, that is, blood or hair.
Also, oil and water are distilled together, but the oil floats above. Also, oil i.e. fire, is extracted from a dry substance, but the water from a moist substance, and then, what remains at the bottom of the vessel is called pure earth, clean earth.
P.
Pater ante Filium: The Father before the Son i.e. the killing of the father i.e. Satyrian.
Pater i.e. sulfur.
Pelicide i.e. cooked honey.
Quars: i.e., stone of gall.
Quehirt: i.e., sulfur, Quibrith the same.
Quianos: i.e., vein of the earth, a vein of the earth, and is called copper ore.
R.
Rastol: i.e., brass, ore, Rasoes the same.
Rabira, radira: i.e., tin.
Rasaheti, rusatagi, rusangi: i.e., burnt brass, burnt ore, Kosange.
Rabiel, Roliel: i.e., dragon’s blood.
Radix: means radish.
Raibz, rus: i.e., stone, Raeb the same.
Rasul: salt.
Racri: i.e., ammoniacal salt, Raan, or ranac.
Ramigi: i.e., colophony, or ramigiri, red resin.
Rasas, or rasitis: i.e., tin.
Ramad: i.e., ashes.
Rachi, or racho: i.e., mercury.
Rainale: a stone from which glass is made.
Rinar (Greek): i.e., filings of iron or steel.
Rel, rebur: i.e., vinegar, sour milk.
Recha: marble, marmel.
Rebis: i.e., rebis stone, namely hair.
Robes: i.e., vinegar, roscod the same, as some want, so is robes, Saturn.
Realgar: i.e., red orpiment, red arsenic.
Rotumba: a face like a cucumber.
Rub: is inspissated juice, juice that is boiled down.
Rosa: i.e., tartar.
Ron: i.e., pound, roll the same.
S.
Sal albus: i.e., borax.
Sal allocaph: i.e., sal ammoniac.
Sal alkali: i.e., bitterness, the dregs of bitterness.
Sal panis: i.e., common salt not prepared, common salt that is not prepared.
Sal usuale: i.e., sal panis, bread salt.
Sal masse: i.e., sal panis, bread salt.
Sal castus: i.e., common salt prepared, common salt that is prepared.
Sal gemma: i.e., sal azon.
Sal gemma: i.e., adrom, i.e., sendar.
Sal petrae: i.e., sal nitri.
Sal graecum: i.e., alum de alap.
Sal vitri: i.e., glass salt, glass gall.
Sal sedo murorum: i.e., sal petrae, wall salt.
Sal tartari: i.e., white tartar calcined.
Sal indicus: i.e., mercury, dissolved not coagulated.
Sal alabrot: i.e., black nitrum, black niter.
Sal alabrot: made from the juice of three herbs and is called the master of all things, it works wonders, it transforms mercury into true Luna, or into Sol, it is also called Salboroch.
Sal alkali: i.e., glass salt, and is made from the ashes of kali.
Sal ammoniacus: i.e., sal sparicius, or defossum, or salt of Arabia.
Stakti: Greek, i.e., ash, spodos idem.
Stibium: i.e., antimony.
Stomamaros: i.e., copper scales, copper scrap.
Spodius: is a type of tutia, succudus idem.
Spodion: i.e., copper rust, erogrostios idem.
Surie & asuriza: i.e., red ink, red atrament.
Stella terrae: i.e., talc.
Sedhe: i.e., cinnabar, zinober.
Superficies: i.e., egg white, albumen.
Sanguifuca: i.e., felt, filz.
Squillinum aciza: i.e., horse dung, horse manure.
T.
Tal: i.e., peacock mud, or alkali.
Taro: i.e., mastic.
Tale: i.e., cooked wine, rochter or boiled wine.
Tabergeta: i.e., whitening, to make white.
Taica, or tica: i.e., good, gut.
Targar: i.e., juniper oil, rachholderöl.
Tartarum: i.e., cream of tartar, weinstein.
Tal: i.e., sweet nitre, sweet niter, is a type of crystal, is a kind of crystal.
Talc: is white like gypsum, also called sunstone, and is a transparent stone, or called sparklach, Talpa, sharmus, tulaxis. (or leather talc).
Tartar: i.e., tartarum.
Tarith: i.e., mercury, fuscias idem.
Tabaisir: Arabic, is spodium.
Tain: is written for bolus armenicus.
Teafi: Greek, sulphur.
Tefra: i.e., ash, ashes, also called konis.
Ten Arabic, lutum, i.e., bolus.
Terra sigillata: should be red in color.
Terra figuli: potter’s clay / i.e. clay or creta or freyden.
Terra rubea i.e. auripigmentum.
Terebinthina i.e. resin, a hard resin, that is called glue.
Terra foetida: stinking earth i.e. sulfur.
Telon i.e. fire, fever or longum, or long.
Testudo i.e. sea foam, sea foam.
Teragoliniem i.e. handmade, made by hand.
Testudo i.e. snail (snail) / white and red anacium, the same.
Thebayco i.e. cupreo, that is copper.
Tenum i.e. Law, namely cerdonum of the workers / lion.
Tinckar i.e. gold halter i.e. borax.
Tumbil i.e. earth, earthy.
Tumpaba, timbapar, capapirū, thion i.e. living sulfur.
Ttianos i.e. lime from gypsum, lime from gypsum.
Trigias Grace i.e. tartarum, Trigia i.e. six, trusses.
Tubel: is a blow or hammer blow of any metal, as it falls from the anvil, and is called in Greek lepidos.
Tumbalum i.e. tubel.
Tipsaria i.e. barley water, barley water, and is called ptisana.
Tutia i.e. calamine, such in K, Katimia.
Targir i.e. almond oil, almond oil.
V.
Vas fictile i.e. a potter’s vessel of clay.
Vas crudum i.e., novum, a new or raw vessel.
Vena veneris i.e., verbena.
Valrat i.e., folium, ulrat idem.
Varach i.e., dragon’s blood.
Ventus rubeus: red wind i.e., red orpiment.
Ventus citrinus: yellow wind i.e., sulfur.
Ulfa, or lapsatura i.e., closing.
Ventus albus: white wind i.e., mercury.
Venti: the winds are called spirits, which are spirits in this art.
Venter equi: horse belly i.e., horse sinus, horse dung.
Venus: copper, murpuc, the same.
Vener i.e., St. Jacob’s nuts.
Vtrum i.e., whole egg, the whole egg.
Viride aeris: green of Greece, green of Spain, verdigris of copper i.e., Spanish green.
Vermiculum: worm i.e., elixir, tincture.
Vzifur i.e., cynobrium, vzufar the same.
Všrub, vršub, všurub, vzurup i.e., Saturn.
Všifur: they say it is the same mint, vafur the same.
Vermilion i.e., cinnabar or minium, or any red color is called.
Vernice i.e., varnish, dry varnish.
Všldz i.e., gold slag, gold purification.
Vitriolum romanum i.e., green ink, green ink.
Vitriolum album: the same.
X.
Xlison i. erugo rasa, scraped verdigris.
Y.
Ydragyros i. argentum vivum.
Yris i. ferrum, iron.
Ysir i. a color, the same.
Ygropislos i. bitumen, it sounds, it is liquid pitch, that is thick pitch.
Ydroteru, ydracium, ydens, ydragyros i. argentum vivum.
Yarin i. flos aeris, yaria, yarin.
Yelion & yalos Graece i. vitrum, glass.
Ycyo i. bonus, good.
Yxir i. bona medicina, a good remedy.
Yridis vel yridie i. auripigmentum.
Yomo & yos, or yn Graece i. viride aeris, Spanish green.
Z.
Zaphyra i. crocus orientalis, Oriental saffron.
Zarneck i. auripigmentum, zarnec, zarnech, zarne.
Zatanea i. flos agni casti, Zuccaiar idem.
Zaybac, zeida, zaibach, zaibar, zerachar, zibatura i. argentum vivum.
Zafran i. crocus hortulanus, garden saffron.
Zarnich i. arsenicum.
Zaras i. aurum, gold.
Zamafor i. minium, minium.
Saffron
Zaffran: i.e., ochre or ocrea, ouger.
Zaffaben: pure drop.
Zarfa: i.e., stagnum.
Zancel: i.e., taxus, yben, or der yen.
Zub: i.e., raw butter, red butter/zubd.
Zymar, zynsar: i.e., verdigris, Spangrün.
Zegi, zet, zezi: i.e., vitriolum.
Zoaco: i.e., venus.
Zericum: i.e., arsenicum.
Zeo: i.e., I boil, I seethe.
Zeherach, alchas: i.e., copper flower.
Zengar: i.e., verdigris, or copper flower.
Zoraba: i.e., vitriolum.
Zeitrabra: i.e., flexible, sweet.
Zebeb: i.e., dung, excrement, & similar things.
Zebd: i.e., butter, ancten.
Zefr: i.e., pitch, Bach.
Zec: i.e., dragantum.
Zemech: i.e., lapis lazuli, lazurstein.
Zerefari: i.e., lime water, whey, or cheese water.
Zengifur, zemasfarum: i.e., cynobrium.

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Printed in Basel / by Samuel Apiario.