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adammclean Member 
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In a recent conversation with Jenny Rampling she impressed on me that the sequence of alchemical operations in George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy is derived from the earlier Scala philosophorum. Has a translation into English been made of this work? |
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Paul Ferguson Member 
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adammclean wrote:In a recent conversation with Jenny Rampling she impressed on me that the sequence of alchemical operations in George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy is derived from the earlier Scala philosophorum. Not in modern times I don't think, but Ashmole 1480 in Bodley contains English translations of some writings by Guido de Montanor, but it doesn't say which ones. |
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adammclean Member
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I had a go at reading the Latin version which is in Manget's Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, currently online at UCM in Spain - pages 134-147 of the second volume (images 1122 onwards), but the text quality is appalling. I wonder why they did not give us a higher resolution scan. However you can clearly see the sections on the twelve processes. Last edited on Sun Oct 5th, 2008 10:40 pm by adammclean |
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