The treasure of Euonymus, conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Whereunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art / Translated (with great diligence, & laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.

  • Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.
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view The treasure of Euonymus, conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Whereunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art / Translated (with great diligence, & laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford.

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The treasure of Euonymus, conteyninge the wonderfull hid secretes of nature, touchinge the most apte formes to prepare and destyl medicines, for the conseruation of helth: as quintessence, aurum potabile, hippocras, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles perfumes, garnishyng waters, and other manifold excellent confections. Whereunto are ioyned the formes of sondry apt fornaces, and vessels, required in this art / Translated (with great diligence, & laboure) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felow of Magdaline Colleadge in Oxford. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri. English

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Imprinted at London : By Iohn Daie, ..., [1559]

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9 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves, 400 pages, [408 pages, 8 unnumbered pages] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; (4to)

References note

STC 11800
NLM 16th cent 2082
Hunt botanical cat 80 (description includes signatures)
Osler, W. Bib. Osleriana 640
Ferguson, J. Bib chemica v. 1, p. 316
Yale. Cushing collection G224
Wellisch, H. "Conrad Gessner", Journal of the Society for the Bib. of Natural Hist., v. 7, pt. 2 32.9.

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Translation of: Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri de remediis secretis
"Publisher's letter to the reader dated 1559"--NLM 16th cent. The letter is the source of information for the publication date
Copy 1 Note: p. 401-8 supplied in MS. copy from 1565 ed.

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