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adammclean Member 
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I have been asked a question by a contact. The Mirror of Alchemy, in seven chapters, is a "pseudo" Roger Bacon text, the earliest manuscripts of which are 15th century. But there is another text with the same title, which was included in the Collectanea Chymica of William Cooper (London, 1684). This text is absolutely different from the first version. Where can one find the Latin version of the text which was translated and published in Cooper's collection? |
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Paul Ferguson Member 
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Is this it, in the Complutense collection? http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=x533933012 Regards, Paul |
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adammclean Member
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I will try and find time to look at the different versions of the Bacon Mirror, when I am next in the University Library, possibly later this week. |
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Paul Ferguson Member
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Maggs have for sale a copy of the very rare French translation of Bacon by Bernard and Girard: http://www.maggs.com/title/CO19683.asp Contents. Part one: ROGER BACON. Le miroir d'alquimie; Hermes Trismegistus. La table d'Esmeraude; Hortulanus. Petit commentaire sus la table d'Esmeraude; Khalid ibn Yazid, al-Umawi, Le livre des secretz d'alquimie; Jean de Mehun, Le miroir. Part two: [Claude Celestin]. Des choses merveilleuses en nature. Part three: Roger Bacon, De l'admirable puissance del'art, & de nature, ou est traicté de la pierre philosophale. Part four: Pope Jean XXII. L'elixir des philosophes . . . L'art transmutatoire. |
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