Lullius, Raymundus, (c.1235-1315)

Testamenti compendium quod alias apertorium nuncupatur. Item experimentorum vel declaratorium. Lapidarium. Commentum. [Incomplete]. Diagrams pen-drawn in red, yellow and blue; the text, which consists mainly of titles to the figures, in red. Fol. 1 (Below a diagram in red) Testamenti Compendium quod allias [sic] apertorium num / cupatur [sic] item. Experimentorum vel declaratorium. La/pidarium. Comentum [sic]. 2v Circular diagram in red, blue and yellow showing the Processes of the Stone. Lettered in the centre 'Deus qui est causa cunctorum'.

Late 15th Century

1 volume II ll. 8vo. 23 1/2 x 16 cm. On vellum, modern paper covers. The margin of the second leaf has been repaired with paper. The MS contains only the first section.

Purchased 1930.

These diagrams illustrating the 'Testamentum', are in part reproduced in Zetzner's 'Theatrum Chemicum', Vol. IV, pp. 1-170, and in Mangetus 'Bibliotheca Chemica curiosa', Vol. I, pp. 707-7778, 790-822.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).