PREFACE.

...index of the edition, they will be able to buy them from Booksellers so that they can complete their own works exquisitely and without omitting anything.

Ninthly, it will be useful not only for Alchemy, but also regarding mineral matters and the secrets of Authors, or for the curious.

Tenthly, if anyone desires to create a corpus of Chemical Authors original: "Authorum Chimicorum"—for example, the Egyptians, Hebrews, Arabs, Syrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Germans, Swiss, Poles, English, Italians, Spaniards, etc., or of Poets, of women, etc.—he will easily be able to pluck all their names from here. It will also not be useless to those who, as I hear, are striving to publish all the works of Lully Ramon Llull (c. 1232–1315) was a Majorcan philosopher; a massive body of alchemical literature was pseudonymously attributed to him in the late Middle Ages. at once, nor to those who intend to do the same for another Philosopher.

If, however, someone should say, "You bring nothing new, for these are found in other most ample Libraries like those of Gesner Conrad Gesner (1516–1565), author of the "Bibliotheca universalis," the first universal bibliography., Draudius Georg Draud (1573–1635), a prolific German bibliographer., etc.," I respond that scarcely a twentieth part of my Library is contained in them, and that I have drawn forth the names of Authors with the greatest diligence from the most well-equipped museums museums In the 17th century, a "museum" (musaeum) was typically a scholar’s private study or a repository of books and natural curiosities rather than a public institution. of the curious, comprising those who existed up until the year 1653.