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Melitsat kai hermēneia

das ist, Onomasticvm vnd Interpretatio, oder, Aussführliche Erklerung Leonharten Thurneyssers zum Thurn ... vber etliche frembde vn[d] (bey vielen hochgelarten, die der lateinischen vnd griechischen Sprach erfahren) vnbekante Nomina, Verba, Prouerbia, Dicta, Sylben, Caracter, vnd sonst Reden, deren nicht allein in theuren Philosophi vnd Medici Aurelij, Theophrasti, Paracelsi von Hohenheim, sondern auch in anderer Authorum Schrifften hin vnd wider weitleufftig gedacht ... : das ander Theil, in welchem fast jedes Wort, mit seiner eigenen Schrifft, nach der Völcker Etymologia oder eigenen Art vnd Weis zureden beschrieben worden ist

by Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn & Nikolaus Voltz

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Language: German
  • Content type: Primary source

Signatures: pi² )(² *² A-2Z² a² Title printed in red and black, within an ornamental woodcut border; woodcut portrait of the author on verso ot t.p.; decorative initials Pt. 1 of the Onomasticum, a glossary of Paracelsian terms entitled "Hermeneia", appeared in 16mo, 1574; pt. 3, a botanical dictionary to accompany his Historia, sive, Descriptio plantarum omnium, 1578, was never published Largely a dictionary of alchemical terms, probably issued for use with his Megale chymia, 1583, with which is it often bound With: Magna alchymia ... Gedruckt zu Cölln : Durch Johannem Gymnicum, 1587 (2874-521) Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica VD16

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das ist, Onomasticvm vnd Interpretatio, oder, Aussführliche Erklerung Leonharten Thurneyssers zum Thurn ... vber etliche frembde vn[d] (bey vielen hochgelarten, die der lateinischen vnd griechischen Sprach erfahren) vnbekante Nomina, Verba, Prouerbia, Dicta, Sylben, Caracter, vnd sonst Reden, deren nicht allein in theuren Philosophi vnd Medici Aurelij, Theophrasti, Paracelsi von Hohenheim, sondern auch in anderer Authorum Schrifften hin vnd wider weitleufftig gedacht ... : das ander Theil, in welchem fast jedes Wort, mit seiner eigenen Schrifft, nach der Völcker Etymologia oder eigenen Art vnd Weis zureden beschrieben worden ist

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1583Durch Nicolaum Voltzen; Gedruckt zu Berlin : Durch Nicolaum VoltzenGermanPublic

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
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