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Name: Auriferae artis, quam chemiam vocant, antiquissimae authores, sive Turba philosophorum
Author: Anonymous

Auriferae artis, quam chemiam vocant, antiquissimae authores, sive Turba philosophorum

Anonymous

Latin

anonymous c. 9th-10th century · published 1572

758 pages

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First Complete Translation

Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.

The 'Auriferae Artis' (1572) is a major Latin compendium of alchemical texts. While several of its most famous constituent treatises (such as the 'Turba Philosophorum', 'Aurora Consurgens', and 'Rosarium Philosophorum') have been translated into English individually, the complete two-volume collection has never been published as a single, unified English work. Therefore, a translation of the entire 1572 edition constitutes the first complete English translation of the collection.

Related translations found:

The Turba Philosophorum, or Assembly of the Sages, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (1896) [partial]

Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy, trans. Marie-Louise von Franz (1966) [partial]

The Rosary of the Philosophers, trans. Adam McLean (Editor) (1980) [partial]

The Mirror of Alchimy, trans. P.S. (Anonymous) (1597) [excerpts]

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Step into a 16th-century laboratory where the boundaries between chemistry, philosophy, and the divine dissolve into a single 'Golden Art.' This massive compendium assembles history’s greatest sages—from Hermes Trismegistus to Maria the Prophetess—to reveal the hidden architecture of the cosmos and the secret path to the Philosopher's Stone.