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Geberis philosophi perspicacissimi, summa perfectionis magisterii in sua natura ex Bibliothecae Vaticanae exemplari undecunq[ue]

emendatissimo nuper edita, cum quorundam capituloru[m], vasorum, & fornacum, in uolumine aliàs mendosissimè impresso omissorum : libriq[ue] inuestigationis magisterij & testamenti eiusdem Geberis, ac Aurei triu[m] uerborum libelli et Auicennae summi medici & acutissimi philosophi mineralium additio[n]e castigatissima

by Geber, Avicenna, 13th cent Geber, 7th cent Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi, de Tarento Paulus, Giovanni Battista Pederzano & Peter Schöffer

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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The author of the Summa, Pseudo-Geber (not to be confused with Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan)) was in all probability Paul of Taranto Imprint from colophons Numerous errors in foliation Signatures: [A] B-R Woodcut illustrations Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica Bound in contemporary limp vellum; ink title and date on spine; Bernard Pagel's label on front pastedown; manuscript notations on front free endpaper

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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emendatissimo nuper edita, cum quorundam capituloru[m], vasorum, & fornacum, in uolumine aliàs mendosissimè impresso omissorum : libriq[ue] inuestigationis magisterij & testamenti eiusdem Geberis, ac Aurei triu[m] uerborum libelli et Auicennae summi medici & acutissimi philosophi mineralium additio[n]e castigatissima

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1542Apud Dominum Ioannem Baptistam Pederz; Apud Petrum Schoeffer; Venetiis : Apud Petrum Schoeffer ; Brixiensem : Apud Dominum Ioannem Baptistam PederzLatin—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL15379513W
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