Coenders van Helpen, Fredericus

Le soleil terrifié par l'art métallique. Méthodiquement traitté [sic] par un Amateur de la Vérité. En debes pulchra ferundo scire. Per anagramma Fredericus Conderus ab Helpen. 1689. Author's holograph MS. Facing the title, is a second title: 'Aurea pluvia Jovis. F. C. ab Helpen ou de Secour [sic]. Ex auctoribus plurimis collecta Parisiis. 1689. La Pluye d'Or de Jupiter'. On the first preliminary leaf is a numerical 'Alphabetum Kaballisticum', and below this in capital letters 'Fredericus Conderus ab Helpen'. The work is a kind of alchemical encyclopaedia in 29 chapters, made up from extracts in Latin and French from the writings of a very large number of alchemical authors of all periods. It is apparently unrecorded. Produced in Paris.

1689

1 volume 9 ll. + 1999 [1001] pp. + 2 ll. 12 mo. 11 x 8 cm. Original calf gilt binding. P. 703 is doubled in the pagination.

Purchased 1936.

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).