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Vier tractätlein Fr. Basilii Valentini benedicter ordens von dem grossen stäin der vralten weysen maister, vnd artzneyen menschlicher gesundheyt : deren er in seinen andern schrifften gedencket, aber vor diesem niemahlen an tag kommen seind, alss nemblich seine : 1. Handgriffe vber die bereitung des grossen steins : 2. Handgriffe wie er seine artzneyen gemacht hat : 3. Schlussreden vom sulphure, victriolo, vnnd magnete : 4. Supplementum oder zugabe

by: Basilius Valentinus; Grasshoff, Johann, d. 1623; Jennis, Lucas; Northeast Document Conservation Center, conservator. IU-R

Publication date: 1625

Topics: Emblems, Emblem books, German, Medicine

Publisher: Franckfurt am Mayn : Bey Luca Jennis zu finden

Collection: emblem; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: German

H.C.D. = Hermannus Condeesyanus [i.e., Johann Grasshoff]

"Lambspring, das ist Ein herrlicher Teutscher tractat vom philosophischen steine ... ", "Vom philosophischen steine ein schöner tractat von einem Teutschen ... " and "Vom philosophischen steine ein kurtzes tractätlein ... " each have their own separate title pages (with engraved vignettes); pagination and register are continuous

Signatures: A-T (T4 blank?)

Title vignette (printer's device?; motoo: "Aduersis clarius ardet"); head-pieces; initials

Lacking T4; McGeary & Nash: "T4 presumed blank"

Manuscript text throughout the inside of the front board, continued on the recto of the first front fly-leaf; unread inscriptions on the recto of the first front fly-leaf

Conserved by Northeast Document Conservation Center, January 2005

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

Landwehr, J. German emblem books

Landwehr, J. German emblem books