Grasshoff, Johann

Aperta Arca Arcani Artificiosissimi (By F. Grassius otherwise called Cortalasius). The Chest open and opened by the Great and Little Baur (Klein Baur), or the Treatise of the greatest and most secret Mysteries of Nature, together with the right and veritable Physica Naturalis Rotunda, and now made entirely intelligible by the Chemico-Cabalistical Figure. Also: Cautions or a Warning, Instructions and Proofs against all those who falsely persuade other people and themselves that they are able to prepare the Aurum Potabile without the Tincture of the Universal Lapis Philosophorum in less time by itself. Hamburgh & Stockholm. 1687. Translated by D.R.N.[?] and C. W. H. Michelser[?] 1847. Copied from the rough. Constantinople. April, 1857. Blazon or blazoning in Heraldry. The work on heraldry, which starts from the other end of the volume, is illustrated by pen-drawings of shields, etc. in red and black: the text is also partly in red ink. For original authors, translator and transcriber, cf. the entry for the preceding MS., of which this is a revised copy. The work on heraldry is written by the same hand, probably that of Charles William Hoyland (C.W.H.). Produced in Constantinople.

1857

1 volume 74 ll. + 11 bl. ll. + 21 ll. (last bl.). + 22 ll. 4to. 23 × 19 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1932.

Database description transcribed from 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).