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			<title><![CDATA[The Pretiosa Margarita Novella of Petrus Bonus]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3367</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:57:43 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Conception of Alchemy as Expressed in the 'Pretiosa Margarita Novella' of Petrus Bonus of Ferrara<br />
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By Chiara Crisciani<br />
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"'I do not know how Pietro Buono composed his Precious Pearl, but if he had written out ali the Latin alchemical, philosophical and mystical books available to him, cut the copies into small pieces, classified the innumerable fragments as plausibly as possible, and finally edited them in the new order thus obtained ... the final result would not have been very different from his compilation.' That was G. Sarton's judgement on Bonus."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/20606147/The_Conception_of_Alchemy_as_Expressed_in_the_Pretiosa_Margarita_Novella_of_Petrus_Bonus_of_Ferrara" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/20606147/The_Co...of_Ferrara</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Conception of Alchemy as Expressed in the 'Pretiosa Margarita Novella' of Petrus Bonus of Ferrara<br />
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By Chiara Crisciani<br />
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"'I do not know how Pietro Buono composed his Precious Pearl, but if he had written out ali the Latin alchemical, philosophical and mystical books available to him, cut the copies into small pieces, classified the innumerable fragments as plausibly as possible, and finally edited them in the new order thus obtained ... the final result would not have been very different from his compilation.' That was G. Sarton's judgement on Bonus."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/20606147/The_Conception_of_Alchemy_as_Expressed_in_the_Pretiosa_Margarita_Novella_of_Petrus_Bonus_of_Ferrara" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/20606147/The_Co...of_Ferrara</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Translation of Theorems 1-17 of the Monas Hieroglyphica]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3363</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:42:30 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Translation of Theorems 1-17 of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica<br />
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By Teresa Burns<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/1028307/A_Translation_of_Theorems_1_17_of_John_Dee_s_Monas_Hieroglyphica" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/1028307/A_Trans...roglyphica</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Translation of Theorems 1-17 of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica<br />
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By Teresa Burns<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/1028307/A_Translation_of_Theorems_1_17_of_John_Dee_s_Monas_Hieroglyphica" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/1028307/A_Trans...roglyphica</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Dee's reading of Pantheus's Voarchadumia]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3362</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:38:38 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Interpretation and the hieroglyphic monad: John Dee's reading of Pantheus's Voarchadumia<br />
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By Hilde Norrgrén<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/673139/Interpretation_and_the_hieroglyphic_monad_John_Dees_reading_of_Pantheuss_Voarchadumia" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/673139/Interpre...archadumia</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Interpretation and the hieroglyphic monad: John Dee's reading of Pantheus's Voarchadumia<br />
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By Hilde Norrgrén<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/673139/Interpretation_and_the_hieroglyphic_monad_John_Dees_reading_of_Pantheuss_Voarchadumia" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/673139/Interpre...archadumia</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Orphic Collection (Loeb Classical Library)]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3361</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:35:35 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["Orpheus is familiar from Greek mythology as a peerless bard, the Thracian son of a Muse with superhuman musical abilities that enabled him to win the release of his young wife Eurydice from Hades, only to lose her on the way back. But he was also considered an authentic poet preceding Hesiod and Homer and on a par with Musaeus, and was credited with poems, oracles, and the foundation of rituals in a tradition that remained vital and creative from Archaic Greece through to the Roman Empire and beyond. Essentially Dionysiac, but without the violence and blood sacrifice, and with a focus on theogony, cosmogony, and the origin and destiny of souls, Orphism was at once a distinctive and an open tradition, with significant change and development over time but with features that made the works and rituals cumulatively attributed to Orpheus identifiable to followers."<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orphic-Collection-Loeb-Classical-Library/dp/0674997786" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.amazon.com/Orphic-Collection...0674997786</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Orpheus is familiar from Greek mythology as a peerless bard, the Thracian son of a Muse with superhuman musical abilities that enabled him to win the release of his young wife Eurydice from Hades, only to lose her on the way back. But he was also considered an authentic poet preceding Hesiod and Homer and on a par with Musaeus, and was credited with poems, oracles, and the foundation of rituals in a tradition that remained vital and creative from Archaic Greece through to the Roman Empire and beyond. Essentially Dionysiac, but without the violence and blood sacrifice, and with a focus on theogony, cosmogony, and the origin and destiny of souls, Orphism was at once a distinctive and an open tradition, with significant change and development over time but with features that made the works and rituals cumulatively attributed to Orpheus identifiable to followers."<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Orphic-Collection-Loeb-Classical-Library/dp/0674997786" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.amazon.com/Orphic-Collection...0674997786</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[DeepL now translating Latin]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3358</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:51:40 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Not bad at all.<br />
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Text from Gerhard Dorn, De Artificio Supernaturali.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Not bad at all.<br />
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Text from Gerhard Dorn, De Artificio Supernaturali.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3355</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:22:02 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["The Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (CDSL) is a freely available collection of 42 Sanskrit dictionaries published between 1832 and 1993, digitized and served at sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de (version 2.10.72). Each dictionary is fully searchable, cross-linked, downloadable, and available alongside the original scanned pages."<br />
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<a href="https://sanskrit-lexicon.github.io/csl-guides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://sanskrit-lexicon.github.io/csl-guides/</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (CDSL) is a freely available collection of 42 Sanskrit dictionaries published between 1832 and 1993, digitized and served at sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de (version 2.10.72). Each dictionary is fully searchable, cross-linked, downloadable, and available alongside the original scanned pages."<br />
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<a href="https://sanskrit-lexicon.github.io/csl-guides/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://sanskrit-lexicon.github.io/csl-guides/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Alchemical Miscellany from the John Rylands Library]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3319</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:23:06 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["Latin MS 82 from the John Rylands Library in Manchester is a fascinating, if often overlooked, alchemical miscellany dating to the early seventeenth century. According to an inscription on the top of fol. 2r, the book appears to have once been owned by ‘Jo. Huniades’ –  Janos Banfi-Hunyadi (1576-1646) –  a Hungarian alchemist who lectured in chemistry at Gresham College, London, and was good friends with Arthur Dee, the son of the famed astrologer, John Dee (to whom the book is dedicated)."<br />
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<a href="https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/an-alchemical-miscellany-from-the-john-rylands-library/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/201...s-library/</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Latin MS 82 from the John Rylands Library in Manchester is a fascinating, if often overlooked, alchemical miscellany dating to the early seventeenth century. According to an inscription on the top of fol. 2r, the book appears to have once been owned by ‘Jo. Huniades’ –  Janos Banfi-Hunyadi (1576-1646) –  a Hungarian alchemist who lectured in chemistry at Gresham College, London, and was good friends with Arthur Dee, the son of the famed astrologer, John Dee (to whom the book is dedicated)."<br />
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<a href="https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/an-alchemical-miscellany-from-the-john-rylands-library/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/201...s-library/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Qandūsī’s Alchemical Prayers]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3318</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:20:46 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["Qandūsī left in his work significant pages in which he reveals part of his inner world as a calligrapher imbued with a deep spirituality. This spirituality is characterized both by references to major concepts of the Sufism of his time (for example, the Muhammadan Reality) and also by alchemical language."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/166258783/_God_s_Dye_Sibghat_Alla_h_Qandu_si_s_Alchemical_Prayers_in_Manuscript_399K_of_the_BNRM_Edition_and_translation" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/166258783/_God_...ranslation</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Qandūsī left in his work significant pages in which he reveals part of his inner world as a calligrapher imbued with a deep spirituality. This spirituality is characterized both by references to major concepts of the Sufism of his time (for example, the Muhammadan Reality) and also by alchemical language."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/166258783/_God_s_Dye_Sibghat_Alla_h_Qandu_si_s_Alchemical_Prayers_in_Manuscript_399K_of_the_BNRM_Edition_and_translation" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/166258783/_God_...ranslation</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Alchimiae Tractatus]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3317</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:16:02 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["The Alchimiae Tractatus (ms38176) is a bound manuscript containing a collection of notes on alchemy, written on seventy-eight vellum leaves in a variety of hands, which consistently display English secretarial features."<br />
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<a href="https://university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2018/09/19/alchemical-manuscript-the-alchimiae-tractatus-14th-century/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://university-collections.wp.st-and...h-century/</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The Alchimiae Tractatus (ms38176) is a bound manuscript containing a collection of notes on alchemy, written on seventy-eight vellum leaves in a variety of hands, which consistently display English secretarial features."<br />
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<a href="https://university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2018/09/19/alchemical-manuscript-the-alchimiae-tractatus-14th-century/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://university-collections.wp.st-and...h-century/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Voynich: an indigenous Mesoamerican medical text?]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3312</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:31:30 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["This article breaks new ground by presenting evidence that much of the art work is Mesoamerican in style or heritage. Examples of the Voynich script are similar or identical to Courtesan script used in codices from New Spain, Early Colonial Mexico. Based on the internal evidence the provenance may be inferred to be Mexico and the language a combination of Nahuatl--the language of the Aztecs, and Spanish."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28103356/The_Voynich_Manuscript_Aztec_Herbal_from_New_Spain" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/28103356/The_Vo..._New_Spain</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["This article breaks new ground by presenting evidence that much of the art work is Mesoamerican in style or heritage. Examples of the Voynich script are similar or identical to Courtesan script used in codices from New Spain, Early Colonial Mexico. Based on the internal evidence the provenance may be inferred to be Mexico and the language a combination of Nahuatl--the language of the Aztecs, and Spanish."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28103356/The_Voynich_Manuscript_Aztec_Herbal_from_New_Spain" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/28103356/The_Vo..._New_Spain</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four unpublished letters to Newton on alchemy]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3311</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:26:56 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[This article analyses four unpublished draft letters from Nicolas Fatio de Duiller to Isaac Newton, dating from June to August 1693, and held in the Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibliotheek in Leiden. Overall, these letters enrich our knowledge of Fatio-Newton’s alchemical correspondence in June 1693, a phase which likely represents the peak of the two natural philosophers’ alchemical collaboration."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/41305722/Four_Unpublished_Letters_from_Nicolas_Fatio_de_Duillier_to_Isaac_Newton_Networks_and_Alchemical_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/41305722/Four_U..._Knowledge</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This article analyses four unpublished draft letters from Nicolas Fatio de Duiller to Isaac Newton, dating from June to August 1693, and held in the Special Collections in the Universiteitsbibliotheek in Leiden. Overall, these letters enrich our knowledge of Fatio-Newton’s alchemical correspondence in June 1693, a phase which likely represents the peak of the two natural philosophers’ alchemical collaboration."<br />
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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/41305722/Four_Unpublished_Letters_from_Nicolas_Fatio_de_Duillier_to_Isaac_Newton_Networks_and_Alchemical_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.academia.edu/41305722/Four_U..._Knowledge</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Elias Ashmole: The Way to Bliss]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3310</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:31:13 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["The Way to Bliss, written by an anonymous English alchemist probably between 1600 and 1620, is a classic that has somehow become annexed to the Rosicrucian tradition through being (a) plundered by the Rosicrucian charlatan John Heydon and (b) being published in an excellent edition by Elias Ashmole in 1658 as a conscious riposte to Heydon's effrontery."  ( Ron Heisler, 'Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion', at <a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/h_fludd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.alchemywebsite.com/h_fludd.html</a> )<br />
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Full text here:<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/AshmoleETheWayToBlissInThreeBooks1658/page/n7/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://archive.org/details/AshmoleETheW...7/mode/2up</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The Way to Bliss, written by an anonymous English alchemist probably between 1600 and 1620, is a classic that has somehow become annexed to the Rosicrucian tradition through being (a) plundered by the Rosicrucian charlatan John Heydon and (b) being published in an excellent edition by Elias Ashmole in 1658 as a conscious riposte to Heydon's effrontery."  ( Ron Heisler, 'Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion', at <a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/h_fludd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.alchemywebsite.com/h_fludd.html</a> )<br />
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Full text here:<br />
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/AshmoleETheWayToBlissInThreeBooks1658/page/n7/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://archive.org/details/AshmoleETheW...7/mode/2up</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Geber: Summa Perfectionis]]></title>
			<link>https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=3309</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:05:46 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA["Summa Perfectionis, or “The Sum of Perfection,” is widely regarded as the most influential alchemical treatise of the Latin Middle Ages. Attributed to the legendary Geber (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān)—an 8th-century polymath whose name became synonymous with practical alchemy—this work became the foundational blueprint for countless philosophers, mystics, and early scientists across Europe and the Islamic world. In this edition, drawn from a carefully corrected Vatican manuscript, the reader is invited into a world of fire and transformation, subtle vessels and sublime theory. With striking clarity, the text reveals the precise methods, materials, and spiritual orientations of the alchemical art as understood by its most revered master."<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4WQ42L1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4WQ42L1</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["Summa Perfectionis, or “The Sum of Perfection,” is widely regarded as the most influential alchemical treatise of the Latin Middle Ages. Attributed to the legendary Geber (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān)—an 8th-century polymath whose name became synonymous with practical alchemy—this work became the foundational blueprint for countless philosophers, mystics, and early scientists across Europe and the Islamic world. In this edition, drawn from a carefully corrected Vatican manuscript, the reader is invited into a world of fire and transformation, subtle vessels and sublime theory. With striking clarity, the text reveals the precise methods, materials, and spiritual orientations of the alchemical art as understood by its most revered master."<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[167 Old Alchemical Books & Manuscripts on USB]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:41:56 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.alchemywebsite.com/forums/member.php?action=profile&uid=2">Paul Ferguson</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.47]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:38:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA["The short alchemical treatises and recipes are mostly in Latin and Middle English, but, unusually for an early 15th-century English manuscript, there are alchemical recipes in a dialect of Old Spanish, perhaps Catalan. These texts, which sometimes include Latin words, appear on ff. 32v, 35r, 50r and 50v. They appear to have been copied by the main scribe. One of the texts is attributed, perhaps spuriously, to the Spanish philosopher and polymath Ramon Llull, although Trinity MS O.2.47 is not recorded in the corpus of manuscripts currently known to preserve his works. Further research on these contents is required."<br />
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Owned and annotated by John Dee.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA["The short alchemical treatises and recipes are mostly in Latin and Middle English, but, unusually for an early 15th-century English manuscript, there are alchemical recipes in a dialect of Old Spanish, perhaps Catalan. These texts, which sometimes include Latin words, appear on ff. 32v, 35r, 50r and 50v. They appear to have been copied by the main scribe. One of the texts is attributed, perhaps spuriously, to the Spanish philosopher and polymath Ramon Llull, although Trinity MS O.2.47 is not recorded in the corpus of manuscripts currently known to preserve his works. Further research on these contents is required."<br />
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Owned and annotated by John Dee.<br />
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