Les Alchimistes Grecs / Tome X: L'Anonyme de Zuretti ou L'art Sacré et Divin de la Chrysopée par un Anonyme [Alchemy]
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- Paris: Société d'Édition, Les Belles Lettres, 2002
Paris: Société d'Édition, Les Belles Lettres, 2002. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Original Wraps. "In the treatise, there is no mention of medicine and iatrochemistry, and Anonymous lightheartedly tells us of chrysopoeia or the art of making gold. Almost all the recipes in the book are about the first preparatory works—the works to volatilize salts to achieve Mercurius. We know these processes were often more generously described in ancient chemistry, just omitting the indispensable reiterations, which are indeed alchemical." Vat. Gr. 1134, known as the Zuretti Anonymous. Synthesis of the 14th-century Mediterranean alchemical knowledge, Zuretti Anonymous is the longest systematic treatise among the Greek manuscripts on the topic and evidence of the cultural syncretism in the Kingdom of Naples during the Angevin period. The manuscript was named after its first translator and editor, C. O. Zuretti, who published it in 1930 in the 7th volume of Catalogue des Manuscrits Alchimiques Grecs."--Labyrinthdesigners.org
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning. filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Near fine, light shelfwear/edgewear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. cxvi, 433pp.+index. Yellow and black paper wrappers. Former owner library stamp. Text in French and Greek.
From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning. filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy.
Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form – alchemical results or talismans. Near fine, light shelfwear/edgewear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo. cxvi, 433pp.+index. Yellow and black paper wrappers. Former owner library stamp. Text in French and Greek.