Jean-Jacques MANGET [1652-1742].

Jean-Jacques MANGET [1652-1742].
Bibliotheca chemica curiosa, seu rerum ad alchemiam pertinentium thesaurus instructissimus: quo non tantum Artis Auriferć, ac scriptorum in ea nobiliorum historia traditur; lapidis veritas argumentis & experimentis innumeris, immo & juris consultorum judiciis evincitur; termini obscuriores explicantur; cautiones contra impostores, & difficultates in tinctura universali conficienda occurrentes, declarantur: Verum etiam tractatus omnes virorum celebriorum, qui in magno sudarunt elixyre, quique ab ipso Hermete, ut dicitur, Trismegisto, ad nostra usque tempora de Chrysopoć scripserunt, cum prćcipuis suis commentariis, concinno ordine dispositi exhibentur. Ad quorum omnium illustrationem additć sunt quamplurimć figurć ćneć.
2° Colonić Allobrogum: sumpt. Chouet, G. de Tournes, Cramer, Perachon, Ritter, & S. de Tournes 1702
Ferguson Young Wolfenbuttel Wisconsin
[Contains:-
Volume I.
1. Olaus Borrichius. De Ortu et Progressu Chemić Dissertatio (Contains 'Aelia Lelia Crispis,' p26), p1.
2. Olaus Borrichius. Conspectus Scriptorum Chemicorum Celebriorum, p38.
3. Athanasius Kircher. De Lapide Philosophorum Dissertatio p54.
4. Athanasius Kircher. De Alchymia Sophistica, p82.
5. Salomon de Blauvenstein. Interpellatio brevis ad Philosophos pro Lapide Philosophorum contra Antichimisticum Mundum Subterraneum Athanasii Kircheri Jesuitć, p113.
6. Gabriel Clauder. Tractatus de Tinctura Vniversali, ubi in specie contra R. P. Athanasium Kircherum pro existentia Lapidis Philosophici disputatur, p119.
7. Daniel Georg, Morhof. De Metallorum Transmutatione ad . . . Joelem Langelottum Epistola, p168.
8. Philippus Jacobus Sachs a Levvenheimb. Aurum Chymicum, p192.
9. Joh. Fridericus Helvetius. Vitulus aureus quem mundus adorat et orat, in quo tractatur de rarissimô Naturć Miraculô Transmutandi Metalla, nempe quomodo tota Plumbi Substantia, vel intra momentum, ex quavis minima Lapidis veri Philosophici particula in Aurum obryzum commutata fuerit Hagć Comitis, p196.
10. Joannes Chrysippus Fanianus. De Iure Artis Alchemić, hoc est variorum Autorum & praesertim Jurisconsultorum Judicia & Responsa ad Qućstionem An Alchemia sit Ars Legitima, p210.
11. Gulielmus Johnsonus. Lexicon Chymicum, p217.
12. Gulielmus lohnsonus. Lexicon Chymicum. Liber Secundus, p275.
13. Petrus Joannes Faber. Manuscriptum . . . Res Alchymicorum obscuras extraordinaria perspicuitate explanans, p291.
14. Petrus Joannes Faber. Epistolć aliquot, p304.
15. Joannes Joachim Becher. Oedipus Chymicus, obscuriorum Terminorum & Principiorum Chymicorum Mysteria aperiens et resolvens, p306.
16. Theobaldus de Hoghelande. De Alchimić Difficultatibus Liber, in quo docetur, quid scire quidque vitare debeat vere Chemić studiosus ad perfectionem aspirans, p336.
17. Cato Chemicus, Tractatus quo verć ac genuinć Philosophić Hermeticć & fucatć ac sophisticć Pseudo-Chemić, & utriusque Magistrorum Characterismi accurate delineantur p368.
18. Hermes Trismegistus. Tabula Smaragdina. Cui titulus Verba Secretorum Hermetis Trismegisti W. Chr. Kriegsmanni & Gerardi Dornei Commentariis illustrata, p380.
19. Arnoldus de Villa Nova. Testamentum, p389.
20. Hermes Trismegistus, Expositiones Dornei, p389.
21. Hermes Trismegistus. Tractatus Aureus de Lapidis Physici Secretô, in septem Capitula divisus, cum Scholiis Anonymi, p400.
22. Turba Philosophorum ex antiquo Manuscripto Codice excerpta, qualis nulla hactenus visa fuerat editio, p445.
23. In Turbam Philosophorum Sermo unus Anonymi, p465.
24. Allegorić Sapientum supra Librum Turbć Philosophorum XXIX Distinctiones, p467.
25. Turbć Philosophorum aliud exemplar, p480.
26. Allegorić super librum Turbć, p494.
27. Ćnygma ex visione Arislei Philosophi & Allegoriis Sapientum, p495.
28. Exercitationes in turbam Philosophorum, p497.
29. Artephius. Liber qui Clavis majoris Sapientić dicitur, p503.
30. Calid. Liber de Compositione Alchemić quem edidit Morienus Romanus, Calid Regi Ćgyptiorum; quem 31. Robertus Castrensis de Arabico in Latinum transtulit, p509.
32. Geber. Summa Perfectionis Magisterii in suâ naturâ p519.
33. Geber. Liber Investigationis Magisterii, p558.
34. Geber. Testamentum, p562.
35. Joannes Braceschus, De Alchemia Dialogus veram et genuinam librorum Gebri sententiam explicens, p, 565.
36. Joannes Gerhardus, Exercitationes perbreves in Gebri Arabis summi Philosophi libros duos Summć perfectionis, p598.
37. Rogerius Baco. De Alcbymla Libellus cui titulus Speculum Alchemiae, p613.
38. Rogerius Baco. De Secretis operibus Artis & Naturć et de Nullitate Magić Epistola (ad Guilielmum Parisiensem conscripta), p616.
39. Avicenna. Tractatulus de Alchemiâ, p626.
40. Avicenna, De Congelatione et Conglutinatione lapidum, p636.
41. Aristoteles. De perfecto Magisterio Tractatus, p638.
42. Aristoteles. Tractatulus de practica lapidis philosophici, p659.
43. Arnaldus de Villanova. Thesaurus Thesaurorum & Rosarium Philosophorum, omnium Secretorum maximum secretum, de verissima compositione Naturalis Philosophić qua omne diminutum reducitur ad solificum & lunificum, p662.
44. Arnaldus de Villanova. Novum Lumen, I. p676.
45. Arnaldus de Villanova. Perfectum Magisterium & Gaudium transmissum ad inclytum Regem Aragonum, quod quidem est Flos Florum, Thesaurus omnium incomparabilis & Margarita, p679.
46. Arnaldus de Villanova. Epistola super Alchemia ad Regem Neapolitanum, p683.
47. Arnaldus de Villanova. Speculum Alchemić, p687.
48. Arnaldus de Villanova. Carmen, p698.
49. Arnaldus de Villanova. Qućstiones tam Essentiales quam accidentales ad Bonifacium Octavium cum suis Responsionibus, p698.
50. Arnaldus de Villanova. Semita semitć, p702.
51. Arnaldus de Villanova. Testamentum, p704.
52. Raymundus Lullius. Testamentum, & primum de Theorica, p707.
53. Raymundus Lullius. Testamentum, Pars Practica super Philosophico Lapide, p763.
54. Joannes Gerhardus. Analysis Partis Practica Raymundi Lullii in Testamento, p778.
55. Raymundus Lullius. Compendium Animć Transmutationis Artis Metallorum, Ruperto Anglorum Regi transmissum, p780.
56. Raymundus Lullius. Testamentum novissimum, Carolo Regi dicatum, p790.
57. Raymundus Lullius. Testamenti novissimi pars altera, p806.
58. Rajmundus Lullius. Elucidatio Testamenti, p823.
59. Raymundus Lullius. Liber dictus Lux Mercuriorum in quo explicatur quod in aliis Libris occultatum est, p824.
60. Raymundus Lullius. Experimenta in quibus verć Philosophicć Chemicć Operationes clarissime traduntur, p826.
61. Raymundus Lullius. Liber Artis Compendiosć quem Vademecum nuncupavit, p849.
62. Raymundus Lullius, Compendii Animć Transmutationis Artis Metallorum aliud exemplar, p853.
63. Raymundus Lullius. Epistola de Accurtatione Lapidis Benedicti missa Anno 1412. Roberto Anglorum Regi, p863.
64. Raymundus Lullius. Liber Potestas Divitiarum dictus, in quo optima expositio Testamenti Hermetis continetur, p866.
65. Raymundus Lullius. Clavicula quae & Apertorium dicitur, in qua omnia quć in opere Alchemić requiruntur, aperte declarantur, p872.
66. Raymundus Lullius. Compendium Artis Alchemić et Naturalis Philosophić, p875.
67. Raymundus Lullius. Tractatus de Lapide et Oleo Philosophorum, p878.
68. Raymundus Lullius. Codicillus, seu Vademecum & Cantilena in quo fontes Alchemicae Artis ac Philosophić reconditioris uberrime traduntur, p880.
69. Joannes Braceschus. Lignum Vitć, seu Dialoeus ex Italico in Latinum versus ŕ G. Gratorolo Physicć, quo 70. Raymundi Lulli Scripta explicantur, p911.
71. Liber Mutus Alchemić Mysteria filiis Artis nudis figuris, evidentissime aperiens (15 plates), p938.

Volume II.
72. Petrus Bonus. Margarita pretiosa novella, p1.
73. Joannes de Rupescissa. Liber Magisterii de confectione veri Lapidis Philosophorum, 4. 80.
74. Joannes de Rupescissa. Liber Lucis, p84.
75. Rosarium Philosophorum, p87.
76. Rosarii Philosophorum aliud Exemplar . . . per Toletanum Philosophum maximum, in p119.
77. Rosarium Abbreviatum Ignoti, p133.
78. Guido de Montanor. Scala Philosophorum, p134.
79. Clangor Buccinć, p147.
80. Correctio Fatuorum, p165.
81. Marsilius Ficinus. Liber de Arte Chemica, p172.
82. Calid Filius Jaici. Liber Secretorum Artis, p183.
83. Calid Rex. Liber Trium Verborum, p189.
84. Merlinus. Allegoria, p191.
85. Thesaurus Philosophić, p192.
86. Aurelia Occulta cum Semoris Zadith Tractatulô de Chemia, p198.
87. Consilium Conjugii, seu de Massa Solis & Lunć Libri III., p235.
88. Richardus Anglicus. Libellus utilissimus peri ChemeiaV, cui titulum fecit Correctorium, p266.
89. Georgius Ripleus. Liber Duodecim Portarum, ii, p275.
90. Thomas Northon. Tractatus Crede Mihi, seu Ordinale dictus, p285.
91. Joannes Dausten. Rosarium alcanum Philosophorum Secretissimum, p309.
92. Dialogus inter Naturam & filium Philosophić, p326.
93. Dionysius Zacharias. Opusculum Chemicum, p336.
94. Nicolaus Flamellus. Commentarius in Dionysii Zacharii Opusculum Chemicum, p350.
95. Collectanea ex Democrito, p361.
96. Nicolaus Flamellus. Tractatus brevis, seu Summarium Philosophicum, p368.
97. Joannes Aurelius Augurellus. Chrysopoeia, & Vellus Aureum, seu Chrysopüia major & minor, p371.
98. Nathan Albineus. Carmen Aureum, p387.
99. Nathan Albineus. Ćnygma, p388.
100. Bernardus Trevisanus Liber de Secretissimo Philosophorum opere Chemico, p388.
Hermes. Tabula Smaragdina, p389.
101. Bernardus Trevisanus. Responsio ad Thomam de Bononić . . . super eodem Opere, p399.
102. Basilius Valentinus. Liber de magno Lapide Antiquorum Sapientum, p409.
103. Basilius Valentinus. Liber duodecim Clavium, p413.
104. Basilius Valentinus. De prima Materia Lapidis Philosophici, p421.
105. Basilius Valentinus. Brevis Appendix & perspicua repetitio aut iteratio in librum suum de Magno lapide Antiquissimorum, p422.
106. Gerardus Dorn. Congeries Paracelsicć Chemić de Transmutationibus Metallorum, p423.
107. Michael Sendivogius. Novum Lumen Chemicum, p463.
108. Michael Sendivogius. Parabola, seu Ćnigma Philosophicum, p474.
109. Michael Sendivogius. Dialogus Mercurii, Alchemistć et Naturć, p475.
110. Michael Sendivogius. Tractatus de Sulphure, p479.
111. Michael Sendivogius. Apographus Epistolarum hactenus ineditarum super Chemia, p493.
112. Orthelius. Commentarius in Novum Lumell Chemicum Michaelis Seudivogii Xll. figuris in Germania repertis illustratum, p516.
113. Guilielmus Trognianus. De lapide, p530.
114. Hydrolithus Sophicus, seu Aquarium Sapientum, p537.
115. Joannes Franciscus Picus Mirandulć Dom. Opus Aureum de Auro tum ćstimando, tum conficiendo, tum utendo, p558
116. Joannes Grasseus, alias Cortalasseus. Arca Arcani artificiossimi de Summis Naturć Mysteriis, constructa ex Rustico ejus majore & minore, & Physica naturali rotunda, per visionem Cabalisticam descripta, p585.
117. Anonymus Discipulus Joannis Grassei. Mysterium Occultć Naturć; De duobus Floribus Astralibus Agricolć minoris in ejus Arca Arcani Artificiosissimi contentis, p619.
118. d'Espagnet. Enchiridion Physicć restitutć, p626.
119. d'Espagnet. Arcanum Hermeticć Philosophić Opus in quo occulta Naturć & Artis circa Lapidis Philosophorum materiam & operandi modum, canonice & ordinate fiunt manifesta, p649.
120. Philaletha. Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis Palatium, p661.
121. Philaletha. Tractatus de Metallorum Metamorphosi, p676.
122. Philaletha Brevis Manuductio ad Rubinum Celestem, p686.
123. Philaletha. Fons Chemice Philosophie, p693.
124. Joannes Ferdinandus Hertodt a Todtenfeldt. Epistola Contra Philaletham, 697.
125. Anonymi ad precendentenn Epistolam Responsio, p699.
126. Liber Praxeos Alchemicć cum Additionibus Libavii, p700.
127. Nicolaus Bernaudus a Crista Arnaudi Delphinas. In Ćnygmaticum quoddam Epitaphium Bononić ante multa sćcula marmoreo Lapidi insculptum, Commentariolus [Aelia Lelia Crispis], p713.
128. Carolus Cćsar Malvasius. Extractum e Tractatu super eodem Epitaphio conscripto, p717.
129. Pantaleon. Bifolium Metallicum, seu Medicina duplex pro Metallis et Hominibus infirmis . . . in. venta . . ., p718.
130. Pantaleon. Tumulus Hermetis apertus p728.
131. Pantaleon. Examen Alchemisticum, p 736.
132. Pantaleon. Disceptatio de Lapide Physico, in qua Tumbam Semiramidis ab Anonymo Phantastice non Hermetice sigillatam; jam vero reclusam, si sapiens inspexerit ipsam, promissis Regum Thesauris vacuam inveniet, p744.
133. Tumba Semiramidis Hermetice sigillata quam si sapiens aperuerit, non Cyrus ambitiosus, avarus, Regum ille thesauros divitiarum inexhaustos, quod sufficiat inveniat, p759.
134. Ludovicus de Comitibus. Tractatus de Liquore Alchaest, & Lapide Philosophorum, . . . item de Sale volatili tartari &c., p764.
135. Ludovicus de Comitibus. Metallorum ac Metallicorum naturć operum ex Orthophysicis fundamentis recens Elucidatio, p781.
136. Ludovicus de Comitibus. Appendix Symbole Crucis aliqualem explicationem exhibens, p840.
137. Claudius Germain Icon Philosophić occultć, p845.
138. Christianus Adolphus Balduinus. Aurum superius & inferius Aure Superioris & Inferioris Hermeticum, p856.
139. Melchior Friben. Brevis enumeratio hactenus a se in Chemia actorum, p875.
140. I. B. De Spiritu Mundi Positiones aliquot, p876.
141. Andreas Cnöffelius. Responsum ad Positiones de Spiritu Mundi, quod in se continet Reserationem Tumbć Semiramidis, p880.
142. Trames facilis & planus ad Auream Hermetis Arcem recta perducens, p887.
143. Daniel Stolcius de Stolcenberg. Hortulus Hermeticus e Flosculis Philosophorum cupro incisis conformatus, & brevissimis versiculis explicatus; quo Chemie studiosi pro Philotheca uti, fessique Laboratoriorum ministri, recreari possint, p895.]
[Illustrations:-
In Volume I.
1. Frontispiece engraving. 282x174mm. Portrait of Manget at age 49.
2. p87. Engraving. 116x60mm. A cylindrical vessel is heated by a lamp under an elaborate canopy.
3. p200. Engraving. 116x66mm. The medal commemorating the transmutation in Prague 1648. See Becher, Helvetius etc.
4. p202. Woodcut and letterpress. 119x81mm. Five circles containing the text of medallions.
5. p408. Woodcuts. Five geometric diagrams.
6. p409 Woodcut. Circle with inscribed triangle, with square inside, and circle at the centre.
7. p442 Woodcut. 28x28mm. Circle divided in quarters and with circle at the centre.
8. p540 Engraving. 258x177mm. Fifteen figures of apparatus.
9. p625 Printed table, showing proportions of metals in alloys of gold with silver and copper.
10. p709 Woodcut. 62x62mm. Circular Lullist diagram.
11. p709 Woodcut. 83x40mm. Circular Lullist diagrams.
12. p711 Woodcut. 68x68mm. Circular Lullist diagram with inscribed heptagram.
13. p712 Woodcut. 66x58mm. Downward pointing triangle with inscribed circular figure.
14. p764 Woodcut. 62x107mm. Three circles with triangles attached above, associated with the menstruale, and the composition of the Sun and of the Moon.
15. p764 Woodcut. 56x104mm. Triangle with circle inside, labelled composition of the Moon. Rectangle with circle inside, labelled composition of the Sun.
16. p765 Woodcut. 52x56mm. Triangle with letter 'A' at the centre, and with vertices labelled 'b', 'c' and 'd'.
17. p766 Woodcut. 38x38mm. Circle containing symbol of salt.
18. p777 Woodcut. 140x140mm. Circle containing four linked circles of the elements, and a central circle of the quintessence.
19. p779 Woodcut. 140x140mm. Circle divided into quarters associated with the elements and the four grades, and with a series of alchemical processes.
20. p826 Woodcut. 105x55mm. Lull's Tree of operations, see Locatelli 'Theatro d'arcani', 1644, and Passera 'Il Nuova Tresoro', 1688.
Items 21-35 are a reprinting of the plates of the 'Mutus Liber', 1677 ???
21. Inserted after p938. 268x188mm. First figure of Mutus liber series.
22. Inserted after item 21. 265x185mm. Second figure of Mutus liber series.
23. Inserted after item 22. 269x189mm. Third figure of Mutus liber series.
24. Inserted after item 23. 268x189mm. Fourth figure of Mutus liber series.
25. Inserted after item 24. 268x186mm. Fifth figure of Mutus liber series.
26. Inserted after item 25. 268x189mm. Sixth figure of Mutus liber series.
27. Inserted after item 26. 268x189mm. Seventh figure of Mutus liber series.
28. Inserted after item 27. 266x186mm. Eighth figure of Mutus liber series.
29. Inserted after item 28. 265x184mm. Ninth figure of Mutus liber series.
30. Inserted after item 29. 268x188mm. Tenth figure of Mutus liber series.
31. Inserted after item 30. 266x186mm. Eleventh figure of Mutus liber series.
32. Inserted after item 31. 266x188mm. Twelfth figure of Mutus liber series.
33. Inserted after item 32. 268x188mm. Thirteenth figure of Mutus liber series.
34. Inserted after item 33. 268x189mm. Fourteenth figure of Mutus liber series.
35. Inserted after item 34. 269x189mm. Fifteenth figure of Mutus liber series.
In Volume II.
36. Inserted after p86. Engraving. 269x137mm. The upper section shows a cylindrical tower furnace. The lower section has a cutaway diagram showing the interior of the furnace.
37. Inserted after p216. Engraving. 305x204mm. 12 figures of the 'Azoth' series' of Basil Valentine.
38. p275. Printed table in seven columns of correspondences with the planets. 'B. a Portu Aquitanus'.
39. p287 Woodcut. 148x87mm. Illustration to Norton's Ordinal. This image was first printed as item 20 in Maier 'Tripus Aureus', 1618.
40. Inserted after p416. Engraving. 238x201mm. Keys 1-6 of Basil Valentine. Rather more coarsely executed than the Merian engraving in Maier's 'Tripus Aureus', 1618.
41. Inserted after p420. Engraving. 288x193mm. Keys 7-12 of Basil Valentine.
42. Inserted after p520. Engraving. 237x161mm. Figures of Orthelius.
43. Inserted after p525. Engraving. 235x161mm. Figures of Orthelius.
44. p604. Woodcut. 102x72mm. 'Figura Cabalistica'. This image was first printed in Kieser 'Cabala Chymica', 1606.'
45. p706. Woodcut. 22x35mm. An inverted flask is connected to the top of another flask.
46. p841. Woodcut. 95x79mm. 'Symbolum Adeptorum'. The symbols of the Sun opposite Mercury and Moon opposite Sulphur are placed at the points of a cross.
47. Inserted before p865. 240x138mm. Recut from items 2 and 3 of Balduin 'Aurum superius et inferius', 1675.
48. Inserted after p896. Engraving. 256x152mm. Figures 1-24 of the Hortulus Hermeticus of Stolcius which were originally printed in Mylius 'Opus Medico-Chymicum', 1618. Here the 160 images have been re-engraved with 24 to each plate, by Joh. Stridbeck.
49. Inserted after item 48. Engraving. 257x153mm. Figures 25-48 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.
50. Inserted after item 49. Engraving. 256x156mm. Figures 49-72 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.
51. Inserted after item 50. Engraving. 256x153mm. Figures 73-96 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.
52. Inserted after item 51. Engraving. 257x154mm. Figures 97-120 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.
53. Inserted after item 52. Engraving. 257x151mm. Figures 121-44 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.
54. Inserted after item 53. Engraving. 175x150mm. Figures 145-160 of the Hortulus Hermeticum.]