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La toyson d'or, ou, La fleur des thresors, en laquelle est succinctement & methodiquement traicté de la pierre des philosophes, de son excellence, effects & vertu admirable : Plus, de son origine & du vray moyen de pouvoir parvenir à la perfection

Archive Print Item: Early Science 2 1612/TRI

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Title: La toyson d'or, ou, La fleur des thresors, en laquelle est succinctement & methodiquement traicté de la pierre des philosophes, de son excellence, effects & vertu admirable : Plus, de son origine & du vray moyen de pouvoir parvenir à la perfection

Other titles: Splendor solis; Aureum vellus; Toison d'or

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Classmark: Early Science 2 1612/TRI

Creator(s): Trismosin, Salomon

Publisher: Chez Charles Sevestre

Publication city: A Paris

Date(s): 1612

Language: French

Size and medium: 13, [3] (the last blank), 219, [1] (blank)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/240085

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013389899705181

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The compilation Aureum vellus, including works by Trimosin and others, was first published in 1598 (Tractatus I-III) and 1604 (Tractatus IV-V); cf. Sudhoff. The present work is a reissue of a 1602 French translation (with additions by the translator) of the 1st part of Tractatus III, entitled Splendor solis; cf. Hogart. Some copies, otherwise identical, have the date 1613; cf. Brunet, NUC.


Hogart, R. Alchemy 158.

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