Tradition 04 of 33
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, Hermetica, and spiritual or laboratory transformation traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 4,074
- Earliest
- 1 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 61%
- 2,499 with public full text
- With covers
- 67%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match3,013
- Metadata match182
- Query match873
- Source classification (retained through merging)6
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Alchemy1.6K
- Early works to 1800770
- History234
- Chemistry231
- Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)229
- occultism197
- Alchimie160
- Medicine150
- Alchemie141
- Philosophy120
- Social Sciences110
- Hermetism109
- Art101
- Magic97
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric91
- Arts and Humanities86
- Literature69
- Early works to 190062
- Rosicrucians57
- Astrology56
- Hermeticism51
- Text51
- Archeology50
- Art history46
Top languages
- German1,160 · 28%
- English882 · 22%
- Latin783 · 19%
- French392 · 10%
- NOT344 · 8%
Notable authors
All authors- Paracelsus272 in this tradition292 books
- Trismegistus Hermes75 in this tradition89 books
- Basilius Valentinus49 in this tradition50 books
- Michael Maier48 in this tradition53 books
- University of Glasgow. Library39 in this tradition71 books
- Ramon Llull36 in this tradition42 books
- Johann Joachim Becher34 in this tradition35 books
- George Starkey33 in this tradition35 books
- Jābir ibn Ḥayyān32 books
- Pierre Joseph Macquer29 books
- Johann Rudolf Glauber27 in this tradition30 books
- Roger Bacon27 in this tradition29 books
4,074 books
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L’ermetismo e Firenze
Anna Dolfi
2016Italian
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Majmū' al-ṣanā'i'
Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 164, Dhūlfiqār 'Alī, transcriber, Maghribī, Muḥammad author, Maḥmūd Khān Ṣāḥib, former owner
1684Persian
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Medical and alchemical recipes
Denis de la Fontaine
1608French
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Mellon MS 13, Iudicium astrologicum for 1475
Iacobus of Speyer
1474Latin
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Mellon MS 16, De consideratione quinte essentie
Johannes de Rupescissa
1475German
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Mellon MS 29, Lumen luminum, etc
frate d. 1253 Elia da Cortona
1525Italian
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Mellon MS 42, De lapide philosophorum libellus ex antiquorum codicibus compilatus 1572, including Hermes, Tabula smaragdina
Jean Fournier de Montauban
1572Greek
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Opus medico-chymicum: continens tres tractatus siue basilicas
Johann Daniel Mylius
1618Latin
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Percorsi di macritica
ANNA DOLFI
2007Italian
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Quali altre parole vi aspettate che aggiunga?
Ester Bianchi, Daniela Campo, Maurizio Paolillo
2022Italian
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Risālah Tuḥfat al-mujarrabāt
Abū al-Muẓaffar ibn Ardashīr ibn Kayqubād, active 12th century, author, Muḥammad 'Alī al-Z̤ārī, transcriber, Casey Casey Albert Wood
1800Persian
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Ristretto prezioso d'arcani
Gaetano Mazzarella, barone Mazzarella
1716Italian
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Secret of Secrets.
Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī
1700Arabic
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Sharḥ Dīwān al-shudhūr
Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī
1712Arabic
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Sonisk alkymi
MAgnus Opium
1766Danish
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The Book of the Wandering Camels and Those Who Herd Them
Abū Ḥayyān Al-Tawḥīdī, Lidia Bettini, Miskawayh, Abū ՙAlī
2017Italian
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The Compleat Chymist
Christopher Glaser
1677
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The Downpour, or Commentary on the "Lamiyah" of the Persian.
Khalīl Ibn Aybak Afadī, Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Nubātah, Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad Ibn ʻabd Allāh, Ughrāʼī, Al-Ḥusayn Ibn ʻalī
1887Arabic
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The Luminance of Explication and Mysteries of Proof in the Understanding of the Paradigms of the Science of Weights and Measures. Part Four.
Ildakī, Aydamur Ibn ʻalī Ibn Aydamur, 1342
1797Arabic
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The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus.
Ṣāliḥ Naṣr Allāh Ibn Sallūm Alabī, Oswald Croll, Trismegistus Hermes, Paracelsus, Sayyid Shīr Shāh, Uthmānī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻalī
1640Arabic
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The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus.
Shaybān Al-Khāzinī, Oswald Croll, Ṣāliḥ Ibn-Naṣrallāh Ibn-Sallūm, Paracelsus
1650Arabic
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The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus.
Oswald Croll, Ṣāliḥ Ibn-Naṣrallāh Ibn-Sallūm, Paracelsus
1650Arabic
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The Science of Divine Alchemy.
Iznīqī, ʻalī, Active 15th Century, Jaldakī, Aydamar Ibn ʻabd Allāh, Active, Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān
1400Arabic
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The Three Books on Alchemy by Geber, the Great Philosopher and Alchemist.
Johann Grüninger, Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān
1531Latin