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Posted: Fri Apr 23rd, 2010 01:08 pm |
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Free downloadable .pdf:
http://www.tankonyvtar.hu/site/upload/pdf/b46.pdf
This is actually a history of chemistry in Hungary but the early chapters deal with alchemy. Lots of illustrations at the end of the text. Hungarian text.
NOT a bootleg, as this site is run by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 03:59 pm |
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Unfortunately, I could not get this to open inside Firefox and thus use Google Translate to try and read it. It could be an interesting summary.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 05:14 pm |
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adammclean wrote:
Unfortunately, I could not get this to open inside Firefox and thus use Google Translate to try and read it. It could be an interesting summary.
The historian of science Lászlo Szathmáry (pictured) published the standard work, Magyar Alkémisták (Hungarian Alchemists), in 1928.
This was reprinted in 1986:
http://www.aukcio.ittvettem.hu/szathmary-laszlo---magyar-alkemistak--reprint-4831931.htmlAttached Image (viewed 872 times):
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 05:29 pm |
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What a wonderful emblem on that book's cover. It makes me want to buy it to see its source.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 05:55 pm |
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Latin inscription at the bottom says 'Mons Magnesiae'.
I think it must be from Lippay's Mons Magnesiae:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippay_Gy%C3%B6rgy
This MS is in the Austrian National Library, MS 11280.Last edited on Mon Apr 26th, 2010 06:08 pm by Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 06:03 pm |
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I suppose this is the
Mons Magnesiae Quo Ex Obscurum sed verum et Subjectum Philosophorum effonditur Express denominatur
in the National Library of Austria in Vienna. I do not know that work. This is something to investigate further.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 06:16 pm |
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According to the Austrian National Library catalogue this is a manuscript of 20 leaves with an illuminated title page. I must try and get a copy of that image.
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Posted: Mon Apr 26th, 2010 06:18 pm |
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adammclean wrote:
I suppose this is the
Mons Magnesiae Quo Ex Obscurum sed verum et Subjectum Philosophorum effonditur Express denominatur
in the National Library of Austria in Vienna. I do not know that work. This is something to investigate further.
See here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=1QXiWBGboHMC&pg=PA379&dq=%22lippay%22+mons&hl=en&ei=0NjVS4fBDYjb-Qb6y-SUDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22lippay%22%20mons&f=false
including footnote 86.
I wonder if it was his 'insignificant artist-nephew' who painted the emblem?Attached Image (viewed 1021 times):
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Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 08:21 am |
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| The emblem is, of course, based on the engraving for Maria the Jewess from Maier Symbola aurea mensae, Franckfurt, 1617. Last edited on Tue Apr 27th, 2010 08:35 am by adammclean
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Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 12:30 pm |
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adammclean wrote:
The emblem is, of course, based on the engraving for Maria the Jewess from Maier Symbola aurea mensae, Franckfurt, 1617.
This one.
Interestingly, Lippay's grave has just been discovered (Juraj is the Slovakian form of György):
“Only a few weeks ago we managed to find his grave and to definitely identify the remains as Peter Pázmány who lived from 1570 to 1637,” the spokesman said, adding that the church also now knows that Archbishop Juraj Lippay is buried next to Pázmány.
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Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 12:56 pm |
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This may not be of any relevance at all, but it would seem that Mount Sipylus in Turkey is also known as 'Mons Magnesiae':
http://books.google.com/books?id=J52L2JmI9YIC&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=%22mons+magnesiae%22&source=bl&ots=I5RN6kSJZ6&sig=LGD5yc9Afv-PYO13Aqa4Is299xA&hl=en&ei=j__WS8HUFZKrsAbm5MmJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22mons%20magnesiae%22&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_SipylusLast edited on Tue Apr 27th, 2010 03:16 pm by Paul Ferguson
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