The Volume and Work Beyond Wonder (1904) - Page 15

Highly Learned Men, regarding the writings and books of the precious PHILOSOPHER THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS. Prepared for printing by Adam von Bodenstein. Bear and Forbear original Greek: Ανέχω καὶ ἀπέχω (Anecho kai apecho). This Stoic maxim, famously associated with the philosopher Epictetus, translates to "endure and renounce." Printed at Mulhouse in Upper Alsace, by Peter Schmid. IN THE YEAR 1562. Quarto. A book size where each sheet of paper is folded twice to create four leaves (eight pages). 11 unnumbered leaves + 49 numbered leaves.

We return to the Volumen. Chronologically, the first and only separate edition of 1575 is followed by the Huser complete edition [Basel: 1589 — 1591], which serves as our source text¹⁾ Johannes Huser was a physician who spent years collecting Paracelsus's original manuscripts to create the most authoritative edition of his works.. Then came its appearance in the first part of the reprint of the first four volumes of this edition, in the Frankfurt German reprint of the medical writings [1603; "Printed at Frankfurt am Main, by the heirs of Johann Wechel"], in the first part of the Strasbourg Folio edition A "folio" is a large-format book where the printer's sheets are folded only once. [1603, Folio²⁾; "Published by Lazarus Zetzner, bookseller," Strasbourg], in the first volume³⁾ of the Latin "Complete Edition" [1603 and 1605; Genuine First through Fifth Volumes of Medical-Chemical or Paradoxical Works original: Operum Medico-Chimicorum sive Paradoxorum Tomus Genuinus. Paracelsus's theories were often called "paradoxes" because they contradicted the established medical tradition of Galen and Aristotle. 1603. Sixth through Eleventh Volumes, 1605. From the Palthenian College of Muses in Noble Frankfurt, Quarto], in the first part⁴⁾ of the new edition of the Folio printing [1616 — 1618; Strasbourg, "Published by the blessed heirs of Lazarus Zetzner"] and finally in the first volume of the Latin "Complete Edition," which represents a minor revision of the aforementioned Palthen edition [1658; Complete Medical-Chemical-Surgical Works, comprised in Three Volumes . . . Geneva, Published by Joan. Antonius & Samuel De Tournes. Editor: Friedrich Bitiskius.]

The Opus appeared for the first time — as we already mentioned above — in the year 1562. In a second edition in 1565 [Octavo A smaller, more portable book size where sheets are folded three times to create eight leaves.], specifically "printed at Frankfurt, by Christian Egenolff's [heirs]..."

¹⁾ See above. ²⁾ The "Second Part" of this complete edition also appeared in 1603. The "Surgical Books and Writings . . . in four parts . . . together with an Appendix . . ." were added as a third part. These latter bear the year 1605. ³⁾ 1603. ⁴⁾ 1616.