1398.4 Giovanni LACINIO. Pretiosa margarita, oder neu-erfundene köstliche Perle von dem unvergleichlichen Schatz und höchst-kostbahren Stein der Wiesen, in sich haltend den eigendlichen Grund-Riss und Lehr-Arth dieser göttlichen Kunst: ingleichen andere aus dem Arnoldo, Rhaimundo, Rhasi, Albert und Michaele Scoto zusammen gelesene Schriften, durch Janum Lacinium aus Calabria zum erstenmahl in lateinischer sprache, mit freyheit pabsts Pauli Tertii und des Raths zu Venedig, anno 1546, heraus gegeben anietzo aber um seiner fürtrefflichkeit willen in das teutsche übersetzet und ans licht gestellet, von Wolffgang Georg Stollen, Liebhabern der edlen Chymie. Nebst einem vollständigen Register. 4° Leipzig: verlegts Johann Friedrich Braun 1714 Ferguson Young Nat Union Cat Contains:- 1. Zueignungs-Gespräche zwischen den Bonum und Lacinium. 2. Neu-erfundene kostbare Perl... ans Licht gestellet durch Petrum Bonum. 3. Brief des Boni Ferrariensis. 4. Collectanea Lacinii aus Arnaldo de Villa Nova, welche die Composition des Steins der Weisen in sich begreiffen und richtig lehren. 5. Brief oder kurtzer Begriff des Raymundi Lulli. 6. Collectanea Lacinii oder kurtze Excerpta aus dem Buche Rhasis, Lumen Luminum genannt. 7. Collectanea Lacinii aus Alberto Magno, dem heiligen Thoma, und andern Autoribus. 8. Eine curiöse Frage von der Natur Solis und Lunae, aus Michaele Scoto. [Illustrations:- 1. p8 (of introductory material) Engraving. 180x147mm. Two lions stand rampant, supporting a tree trunk which grows from the earth without branches. The trunk has the symbols of salt, sulphur and mercury upon it. Above the left lion are the symbols for fire and earth, while above the left lion are the elements of water and air. At the foot of the tree is a black crow. On top of the trunk is a circle with cross above (sometimes associated with antimony). In the interior of the circle are small symbols of the sun and moon. On the top of the cross a white bird perches. In the sky above are the sun, moon and stars. 2. p16 (of introductory material) Engraving. 174x145mm. Above a lighted candle is a circular diagram, inside which is a hexagram of interlinked triangles, the star of David. On this is laid a rectangle, forming a complex figure. Mars and Venus are associated with the outside and inside vertices of the upward pointing triangle, while Jupiter and Saturn are in turn associated with the outer and inner vertices of the downward pointing triangle. The Sun is on the outside of the rectangle and the Moon at its interior crossing. At the centre is the symbol of Mercury. The text above is "Naturae Naturantis" and "Naturatae, Mysterium", while below is "In scuto Davidico exhibitum". 3. Woodcut in margin. 40x23mm. The Sun and Moon are shown at the centre of flaming interlinked triangle. 4. Woodcut. 30x100mm. Solution and coagulatio are depicted as two cubes. 5. Engraving. 122x67mm. The seven trees of the metals. 6. Engraving. 78x27mm. The first tree. 7. Engraving. 80x30mm. The second tree. 8. Engraving. 78x30mm. The third tree. 9. Engraving. 78x30mm. The fourth tree. 10. Engraving. 80x31mm. The fifth tree. 11. Engraving. 78x29mm. The sixth tree. 12. Engraving. 135x93mm. The cross of the elements and the four qualities. 13. Engraving. 50x96mm. First of the Petrus Bonus series. 14. Engraving. 50x71mm. Second of the Petrus Bonus series. 15. Engraving. 42x99mm. Third of the Petrus Bonus series. 16. Engraving. 51x100mm. Fourth of the Petrus Bonus series. 17. Engraving. 44x98mm. Fifth of the Petrus Bonus series. 18. Engraving. 50x99mm. Sixth of the Petrus Bonus series. 19. Engraving. 40x97mm. Seventh of the Petrus Bonus series. 20. Engraving. 50x96mm. Eighthof the Petrus Bonus series. 21. Engraving. 47x100mm. Ninth of the Petrus Bonus series. 22. Engraving. 44x100mm. Tenth of the Petrus Bonus series. 23. Engraving. 48x98mm. Eleventh of the Petrus Bonus series. 24. Engraving. 51x100mm. Twelfth of the Petrus Bonus series. 25. Engraving. 69x97mm. Thirteenth of the Petrus Bonus series. 26. Engraving. 76x96mm. Fourteenth of the Petrus Bonus series.]