Salomon TRISMOSIN, pseud.

2605.1 Salomon TRISMOSIN, pseud.
Aureum vellus, oder Güldin Schatz und Kunstkammer: Darinnen der aller fürnemisten, fürtreffenlichsten, ausserlesenesten, herrlichisten und bewehrtesten Auctorum Schrifften Bücher, aus dem gar uhralten Schatz der uberblibnen, verborgnen, hinderhaltenen Reliquien und Monumenten der Aegyptiorum, Arabum, Chaldæorum & Assyriorum, Königen und Weysen, von dem Edlen, Hocherleuchten, Fürtreffenlichen, bewehrten Philosopho Salomone Trismosino (so des grossen Philosophi und Medici Theophrasti Paracelsi Præceptor gewesen) in sonderbare underschiedliche Tractätlein disponiert, und in das Teutsch gebracht. Sampt anderen Philosophischen alter unnd newer Scribenten sonderbaren Tractätlein, alles zuvor niemalen weder erhört noch gesehen, wie der Catalogus zuverstehen gibt. Durch einen der Kunst liebhabern mit grossem Kosten, Mühe, Arbeyt und Gefahr, die Originalia und Handschrifften zusammen gebracht, und auffs trewlichest und fleissigst an Tag geben.
4° Getruckt zu Rorschach am Bodensee 1598
Ferguson Young British Library
[Contains:-
Tractatus I.
1. Der gar alten Bücher.
Tractatus II.
2. Paracelsische Schrifften.
3. Korndorfferische Schrifften.
Tractatus III.
4. Splendor Solis, mit schönen Figuren.
5. Spiegel der Alchymey Herrn Ulrici Poyselii.
6. Clavis, sambt seiner Declaration der Chymischen handgriffen.
7. Allerley Particularia die handtgriff zuerlehrnen.
8. Ein Tinctur oder elixier eines unbekandten Philosophi.
9. Processus pro tinctura auff den Mercurium Solis und Lune.
10 Modus procedendi in praeparatione Lapidis Philosophici.
11. Dialogus Philosophiae.
12. Exemplum artis Philosophiae. Ein Exemplum der Philosophen Kunst.
13. De Lapide Philosophorum, xii capita incerti authoris.
14. Vom Stein der Weisen ein schöner Process Episcopi Melchioris Brixiensis Cardinalis Romae, &c., und ein Philosophischs Werck unnd Gespräch, von dem Gelben und Rotten Man.
15. Varia Philosophica: Capitulum, darinnen das gantze Werck kurtzlich begriffen; Ein schönes Gedicht de Saturno philosophorum; Ein Gesprecht de Saturno philosophorum; Ein Gedicht de Saturno philosophorum; De Oleo Philosophorum; Vera praeparatio Mercurii.
16. Tractatus vom Saltz der Weisen
17. Novum Testamentum.
18. Von dem Philosophischen Bley.
19. Avicennae 7 regulae ex quibus componitur lapis Philosophorum.
20. Tabula Scientiae maioris.
21. De Quinta Essentia vini pulcherrimus tractatus.
22. Tabula Schmaragdina Hermetis Trismegisti patris Philosophorum.]
[Illustrations:-
33 woodcuts. The Splendor solis series has been hand coloured in some copies.
1. p65 of Vol I. 80x44mm. A flask is supported between two columns. A fire burns in a furnace below, "laus deo gloria semper amen".
2. Opposite p1 of Vol. II. 132x116mm. Portrait of Paracelsus with hand on the pommel of his sword.
3. p35 of Vol II. 70x100mm. Flask with still-head and two flasks collecting Oil and Spirit respectively.
4. p48 of Vol II. 140x106mm. Flask containing Azoth, with still-head and with two receiving flasks.
5. p49 of Vol II. 149x73mm. Three flasks with Mercury and Venus in them, the largest one also containing Sol.
6. p54 of Vol II. 67x65mm. Armorial shield.
7. p98 of Vol II. Three small woodcuts of flasks, approximately 25x15mm.
8. p102 of Vol II. 59x48mm. An everburning light.
Items 9-30 are the 22 figures of the Splendor Solis series. 115x131mm. Woodcuts.
9. p6 of Vol III. First figure of Splendor Solis. A coat of arms with ornate foliage, has a shield bearing the image of the Sun. Above this another Sun shines down.
10. p10 of Vol III. Second figure of Splendor Solis. A philosopher stands holding in his right hand a flask containing liquid. He points to this with his left.
11. p11 of Vol III. Third figure of Splendor Solis. A knight in armour wearing a crown, and brandishing a sword in his right hand and holding a shield in his left, stands upon an ornate double fountain.
12. p15 of Vol III. Fourth figure of Splendor Solis. A Queen standing under a Moon on the left holds a banner in her left hand to which she points with her right. A King standing under a Sun is on the right. He holds a sceptre in his left hand. Around this is a banner which he points to with his right hand.
13. p18 of Vol III. Fifth figure of Splendor Solis. Two miners excavate a small hill with pick-axes. Upon this hill are two deer. In a lake at the base is a crescent Moon.
14. p20 of Vol III. Sixth figure of Splendor Solis. Two philosophers discuss matters under a tree which has a crown around the base of its trunk. They point to the branches of the tree within which are a number of black and white birds. A man is climbing a ladder to collect something from the tree.
15. p22 of Vol III. Seventh figure of Splendor Solis. A King stands beside a lake, holding a sceptre in his right hand, and an orb upon which a bird perches. Behind him the sun rises or set behind a hill. In a lake or swamp on the right another king is seen sinking down into the water, as if dying.
16. p23 of Vol III. Eighth figure of Splendor Solis. A crowned angel above whose head a six-pointed star shines. She holds out a cloth to a naked man who is emerging from a lake, or swamp.
17. p25 of Vol III. Ninth figure of Splendor Solis. A winged hermaphrodite stands holding an egg is its left hand, and a cross section of a sphere in four concentric layers, in its right hand.
18. p27 of Vol III. Tenth figure of Splendor Solis. A man with a sword has dismembered a man's naked body on the ground before him. He holds the head of the man in his left hand. In the background is a classical temple.
19. p29 of Vol III. Eleventh figure of Splendor Solis. A man with a bird sitting upon his head, stands in a vessel which is being heated upon a furnace. This is tended by a young boy with bellows. From a spout on the left a stream of liquid is collected into a flask.
20. p31 of Vol III. Twelfth figure of Splendor Solis. A crowned flask with open top is heated upon some flames. Within the flask a young naked boy works a pair of bellows within the mouth of a winged dragon.
21. p32 of Vol III. Thirteenth figure of Splendor Solis. A crowned flask with open top is heated upon some flames. Within this three birds are fighting each other.
22. p33 of Vol III. Fourteenth figure of Splendor Solis. A crowned flask with open top is heated upon some flames. Within it a three headed cockerel, each head bearing a crown, stands with wings outspread.
23. p34 of Vol III. Fifteenth figure of Splendor Solis. Within a crowned flask with sealed top is a three headed winged dragon.
24. p35 of Vol III. Sixteenth figure of Splendor Solis. Within a crowned flask with sealed top, a peacock reveals its resplendent tail.
25. p36 of Vol III. Seventeenth figure of Splendor Solis. Within a crowned flask with open top, a Queen stands holding an orb in her right and a sceptre in her left hand.
26. p37 of Vol III. Eighteenth figure of Splendor Solis. Within a crowned flask with open top, a King stands holding an orb in his left and a sceptre in his right hand.
27. p39 of Vol III. Nineteenth figure of Splendor Solis. With a landscape with trees, a dark Sun or Moon rises or sets behind a hill.
28. p41 of Vol III. Twentieth figure of Splendor Solis. Three children are at play. One rides on a hobby horse, the others play with baton and whip.
29. p43 of Vol III. Twenty first figure of Splendor Solis. Two woman are beating and washing clothes beside a fountain.
30. p45 of Vol III. Twenty second figure of Splendor Solis. A traveller with a pack walking along a river bank beholds the Sun on the horizon.
31. p100 of Vol III. 70x49mm. Flask with removeable still head.
32. p132 of Vol III. 45x33mm. Flask.
33. p239 of Vol III. 109x109mm. Circular figure of Vitriol acrostic, with the double-headed eagle, the lion and the seven pointed star, all set on shields linked together by chains. Above the Sun and Moon pour into a chalice set upon the symbol of Mercury. The hands of God emerge from clouds at the right and left. Opposite is the text in Latin of the Emerald Table of Hermes, and a explanation of the symbolism follows in German verse.
There are some other small woodcuts of alchemical symbols in the text.]