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331 THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

331 "Arctunis" (book ou

vii.)i8

" Arclieliios "

unkuown.

cohiiuit, often riieiilioiii'd Book i.. is the book of >y ancient alelieniisls. ' Light." It may l)e the transhition of f>|)eeiiluni," u name borne by many works, such as Hoger Bacon's and Geber's; or it may be tlie "Liber Lweis" of and "Thea.Joan (le Hiipescissa (Manget, ii. S4-f<T 13onk x. is by trnni Chemieum," 1059, iii. •2M4-2!I2). (l)i«)k

viii.

is,

)

tliu



"Irimans

(if

Kostantina'"

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probably Morienus, or

name, Morienus Romanus. Book xi. deals with the "'riiirly Paths." Book xii., "Avisiua," is Avii( una. A methodical practical treatise in the old F-atin manuscript of the fourteenth century bears liis name (Berthelot, I.e. i. 293). This Latin text which i.s, according to Berthelot, the source of the aldiemistio sections in Vincenlius of Beauvais's work Speculum Xaturale" is of special interest, as in it is found an interpolated list of alchemists, amotiL' wbcim arc "Isaac the Jew," and a certain liy his full

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1)A1.-M.RIK (FrcHii Man^i't,

"Jacob, a philciscjpher,"

A pdpe

who played important

"

few of them are prominent and known elsewhere as authorities in Alchemy. The list begins Contents with "Mcstre Arnafdes" Arnaldus

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of Second de Villanova (flourished 130(1). Many Collection, of his works have been translated into Hebrew (sec Stcinschneider, " Hebr. Ucbers. " pp. 77« el acq. under " Arualdes " in the index), but outside of this manuscript no trace has been found of the alchemistic writings. For the Latin " Thealrum Chemitexts, see Manget, I.e. i. 6G2-70G eum," 1(559, iii. 118-130, and iv. 515 (7 «7. "Joane ,



ChemlcA Curi(«a.

"i

" is

roles.

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I

Lumen huminis." anil hat of .bubacar " Liber Secnlorum." The last bonk, xiv.,isas(ril)e<l lol'lato. title"

" Collection " (?7l3). as it is called in the manuscript. It must sullice to mention mereh' the names, as only a

Bibli.ilhrc*

also inenti(med; anil among the authors in the manuscript is also "The I'ope." The is found k of " Ka/.is " here book xiii. also in the oM Latin manuscript: only the text has been divided into wo sections, of which the lirsI is ascribed to ".Vbubaiar" and the si'ciind to "Ra/.is" (Berlhelot, l.r. i. 300-310, 311). The second treatise is identical with the one that goes iinderthe name of Aristotle in "Theatrum Chemieum" (iii. 50) as "Do Perfeelo Magisleriii," while Bazis' treatise has the

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A double glossary of Arabic and Gre«»k words concludes this lirsi part of the manuscript, in which, with the e.cei)tion of Albertus Magnus, all the authors mentioned belong to the Greek-Arabic period as reflected in compilations of the thirteenth century. To a later peri(«l belong the authors of the second

AS rSKD DY ALCMKMISTS

is

1

Alchemy

I

In the l.alin mainiscripl of the fourteenth century analehi'mislic Inatise wasas( libed lol'latounilcTthir name of " Anagnensis," i)r(>bably conni'cted with the " .N'limes" of I'lato (sc>e St/.. is also published "I'lalnnis I.ibri (jualuor cum Conunenti) llebuhabes Hameil: Kplicalus ab Hestole." It dilTers somewhat fnun the llebrew text, and is menliiined hiir- In le.use l!i rlhc'lol, in speaking cif this treatise of i'lalo (fi>unit also in the ohl Uitin manu.scripl pointed to the "Aron nosier." referred lo in the comnienlary as bi'ing a Jew. This is doubt f«l. however, as lie Is not nientioneil as "Judieus." ).

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Ashkenazi then mentioned; perhaps "Theodonicus" or "Theotonicus." whose name was afterward changed liy jKipular etymology into "Teutonicus" (see Berlhelot,

l.r.

i.

71)."

"Me.s.sir I'iero

Dabano

" is

none niherlhan the famous Petrus Bonus, aulhorof the" MargaritaPretiosa"(Mauget,/.c, ii. 1-79; "Theatrum Chemieum," 1000. V. 507). Less known, or perhaps unknown, are the following names mentioned in this part of the manuscript (accompanying each some short abslmct is given): Nieolo d'lnglitera. " who had left Kngland together with his art " Meslero r.rni.mo de Normandia; Slesser Andrea dc NaBarlnlomiMidalTempio; ^lesser (iuasparedelln piili Bdlonva: Crislofano della Bcilonya; Mes.ser Joane liolrici; Kniti' Klia ("llilia," "Alia," occurs very ofl<'n; a certain Ylia is mentioned in Plato's "Quarloriim"!: Mes.ser Siinone I{eco, who had "niailethc white vestmelil " (lUlielmoda .Monte Pola.seno. The la.ston th<' list is a certain " Boniilo," who speaks on This name is the only om- that the " Parlikolare." might help til llx the time and placeof this ci>ni|iila'





lion.

In fnlio 130/> the fnllowing statement appears:

were given me by Mestro Yacopo Jacob of Yenice>, who performed them in Home befnre IheCardinal della Coionna, and I have given him, for leaching them lo me, sixty llorius." IJiforluiHitelv there were fourteen cardinals

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arliliees

Davinisia

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