Thomas Aquinas
1420
Germany
There are several versions of the manuscript and depending on the library, the number, order and certain details of the figures differ. The Zurich manuscript is the oldest. We also recovered the additional figures present in the Leiden manuscripts ( Vossiani Chemici F. 29. Glasgow Ferguson 6 figures are available PSI
To the extent that the text accompanying the images is an anthology of biblical and alchemical texts which are not necessarily linked to the images, we will not reproduce it here, especially since the French translation is not a priori free from right.
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“in all silver is white, as in all gold there is red, sulphur. No other sulphur like that which exists in these bodies is found on all the earth. Therefore we cunningly prepare these two bodies, that we may have sulphur and quicksilver of the same substance as that which generates gold and silver under the earth. For they are shining bodies, whose rays tinge other bodies with true whiteness and redness, according to the manner of their own preparation.”
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