Bibliographia Paracelsica/BP.Crollius.1609-01

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BP.Crollius.1609-01
Oswald Crollius: Basilica chymica. Frankfurt am Main: Claude de Marne and Johann Aubry (heirs), 1609.
VD17 23:290172G. — USTC: 2093015, 2093197. —
4°. Signatures: ()4 (:)6 A–Z4 Aa–Qq4 **4 ***4 a–m4 aa–cc4 = 170 fols. (340 pages) (autopsy).
[xvii], [3 blank], 283, [27], [2 blank]; [xvi], 80, [16]; 23, [1] pages (autopsy).
Main Language: Latin. —
Willer, Messkataloge: 1609 Spring, B4r-B4v. —
Editions:
sig. ()1r
Title page
Illustration: Full page copperplate engraving
Artist: Aegidius Sadeler
Illustration: Portrait of Paracelsus
Artist: Aegidius Sadeler

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Blank page

sig. ()3r–()4r [3 pages]
Poem by Paulus Melissus, addressed to Oswald Crollius; Latin

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Poem by Paulus Melissus, addressed to Oswald Crollius; Latin
Heidelberg, 1593
Author’s byline: Melissus F[ecit]

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Title page
Printer’s mark on title page

sig. (:)1v
Blank page

sig. (:)2r–(:)5r [7 pages]
Dedication by Oswald Crollius, addressed to Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg; Latin
Prague, 1608

sig. (:)5v–(:)6v [3 pages]
3 blank pages

sig. A1r–O3v ‖ p. 1–110 [110 pages]
Preface by Oswald Crollius, addressed to the Reader; Latin

sig. O4r–Nn2r ‖ p. 111–283 [173 pages]
‘Basilica chymica’, by Oswald Crollius; Latin

sig. Nn2v–Nn3r [2 pages]
Table of contents

sig. Nn3v–Qq3r [24 pages]
Index

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Errata

sig. Qq3v
Printer’s mark

sig. Qq4r–Qq4v [2 pages]
2 blank pages

sig. **1r–m4v [112 pages]
‘De signaturis internis rerum’, by Oswald Crollius; Latin

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Blank page

sig. **2r–***1r [7 pages]
Dedication by Oswald Crollius, addressed to Peter Vok of Rosenberg; Latin

sig. ***1v–***4r [6 pages]
Letter by Peter Vok of Rosenberg, addressed to Oswald Crollius; Latin
Třeboň, 31 August 1608

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Two poems by Nicolaus Maius, addressed to Oswald Crollius; Latin

sig. a1r–b4v ‖ p. 1–16 [16 pages]
Preface by Oswald Crollius, addressed to the Reader; Latin

sig. c1r–k2v ‖ p. 17–76 [60 pages]
‘De signaturis internis rerum’, by Oswald Crollius; Latin

sig. k3r–k4v ‖ p. 77–80 [4 pages]
‘List of alchemical signs’, by Oswald Crollius; Latin

sig. l1r–m4v [16 pages]
Index

sig. aa1r–bb1v ‖ p. 1–10 [10 pages]
‘Elegia de vera antiqua philosophica medicina’, Poem by Ulrich Bollinger, addressed to Oswald Crollius; Latin

sig. bb2r–cc4r ‖ p. 11–23 [13 pages]
‘Encomium Wetterae Athenarum Hassiae’, Poem by Ulrich Bollinger; Latin

sig. bb3r–bb3v ‖ p. 13–14 [2 pages]
Dedication by Oswald Crollius, addressed to Council and People of Wetter; Latin

sig. bb4r–cc4r ‖ p. 15–23 [9 pages]
‘Encomium Wetterae Athenarum Hassiae’, Poem by Ulrich Bollinger; Latin

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Colophon