Alchemy of the Ancient Goths: Johannes Bureus’ Search for the Lost Wisdom of Scandinavia

Håkan Håkansson
Lund University Library


The Swedish polymath Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), Royal Librarian and close friend of King Gustavus Adolphus, is primarily known as an exponent of early modern
“Gothicism,” i.e., the idea that the ancient Goths of Scandinavia were the first rulers of Europe and Sweden the true origin of Western culture. But Bureus was also an avid
reader of alchemical literature, as well as a practising alchemist"


https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/...809108.pdf

Carl-Michael Edenborg.

Chapter from Western Esotericism in Scandinavia, Brill; 2016.

https://www.academia.edu/43997694/Alchemy_in_Sweden

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Short article on Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al Razi, born 865.

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Paradis, Paul Canossa, called. Ce livre contient ung petit traicte de Alkimie tourné de langue hebraique en langue françoyse. Manuscript on vellum. [Paris, before 1540]

A compilation of seventy-three recipes of practical alchemy, preceded by an explication of the terms used, and an indication of the days and the planets attributed to specific metals. Its author (d. 1549) was descended from an important Jewish family of Venice, the Meshulam (known as “Dal Banco”). He had converted to Catholicism and travelled to France, where he joined a sister, Françoise, at the court of the Queen of Navarre, Marguerite d’Angoulême, becoming her tutor in Greek and Hebrew, then in October 1530 professor of Hebrew at the Collège de France. He assumed the name “Paradis” about 1533 and was naturalized in 1537.

The manuscript was written for the soldier and stateman Anne de Montmorency (1493–1567), appointed by François I in 1538 Constable of France.

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This thesis examines the influence of Arabic learning, in Latin translations, on Chaucer’s oeuvre. Chapter Four concentrates on the technical transmission of Arabic alchemical sources in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, which act as a metaphor for fin’ amors. 

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