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Mike Zuber
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Posted: Wed May 6th, 2015 10:42 pm |
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I'm looking for seventeenth-century manuscripts that may have provided the basis for a 1736 print claiming to present a text from 1607 (see http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id347703682 for a scan). As I've found the title mentioned in another manuscript dating to 1607 and a print from 1618, I'm reasonably sure that this claim is accurate but would still love to find earlier manuscripts to back it up further.
Variant spellings I've encountered include 'Das Guldene Flüß' and 'Das Gülden Fluß', though further possibilities are to be expected. The complete title as given in the 1736 print reads: Das Güldne Vließ, Oder Das Allerhöchste, Edelste, Kunstreichste Kleinod, und der urälteste verborgene Schatz der Weisen ('The Golden Fleece or the Highest, Most Noble, Most Artful Gem and the Most Ancient, Hidden Treasure of the Wise').
Please let me know if you've come across any references to such manuscripts.
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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2015 12:05 am |
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This source says 1609:
http://tinyurl.com/k55no8p
There are problems with accessing Google Books at their .com server so you'll need to go through one of the national servers, e.g. the Dutch server as above.
Wasn't the 1607 book with that title an anti-Jesuit thing by Georg Eder and not connected with alchemy?
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Mike Zuber
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Posted: Mon May 11th, 2015 10:59 am |
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Thanks for getting back! Unfortunately, Faivre just garbled some givens provided with much greater accuracy by Ferguson, who in fact put me on track with this whole chase.
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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Mon May 11th, 2015 11:36 am |
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Mike Zuber wrote:
Thanks for getting back! Unfortunately, Faivre just garbled some givens provided with much greater accuracy by Ferguson, who in fact put me on track with this whole chase.
Clann Fhearghuis gu brath!
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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Tue May 12th, 2015 11:42 pm |
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Just for the record, the Nuremberg edition of 1737 is here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=E3lVAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Is this the same Siebmacher who published the German Armorial?
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100235449?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Siebmacher%2C%20Johann%2C%20-1611.%22&ft=
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Rafal T. Prinke
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Posted: Tue May 19th, 2015 09:32 pm |
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The attribution to Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher (apparently indeed, the author of the famous Wappenbuch of 1597) is intriguing. He is also supposed to have written Das Wasserstein des Weisens, the key authority for Boehme and 18th c. Rosicrucians. But the attribution in both cases seems to be quite late, with early editions being anonymous.
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