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Trismosin, Salomon

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4853, 4854

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Trismosin, Salomon

Date(s): 1920

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Trismosin | Salomon | adept and teacher of Paracelsus

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Splendor Solis, alchemical treatises of Solomon Trismosin, adept and teacher of Paracelsus. Including allegorical pictures reproduced from the original paintings on vellum, dated 1582, in the British Museum. With introduction, elucidation of the paintings, aiding the interpretation of their occult meaning, Trismosin's autobiographical account of his travels in search of the Philosopher's Stone, a summary of his alchemical process called 'The Red Lion', and [explanatory notes]. By Julius Kohn. Two typescript copies, one on large 4to. sheets mounted, and prepared for the press, with the Editor's holograph corrections and additions: the other on folio typing-paper. The last illustration (No. 22) has been cut out. There are 21 photographic illustrations, of which Nos. 16, 19-24 have been coloured by hand. The folio set does not include the illustrations, but has the title-page and preliminary matter, which are missing in the 4to. set. The MS. from which this edition is transcribed is B. M. Harley 3469.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Ff. 9-97[98], 94 ll. large 4to. & folio. 291/2 × 201/2 cm., 33 × 20 cm. Unbound. All before fol. 9 of the 4to. set is wanting: fol. 61 is duplicated.

Finding aids:

Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

From the Julius Kohn Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Hodgsons, 12/10/1934, Lot 799 (part).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.