Brief von Wilhelm von Hohenheim an seinen Sohn
Litterae Wilhelmi Bombasts von Hohenheim / Particular Wilhelm von Hohenheims
Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim schreibt an seinen Sohn
Printing History, Manuscripts. First edited in 1608 by Benedictus Figulus. Three manuscripts. Critical edition in CP 3: 239–247, n° 103.
Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.
Relationship between different versions. Only one version known.
Structure, genre/form, perspective, style. Written in the first person in the form of a letter from Wilhelm von Hohenheim, directly addressing the son Paracelsus (“lieber Sohn Philippe”).
Relationship to other texts. Paracelsus’s father, Wilhelm von Hohenheim, seems to have attracted much attention from the authors of spurious Paracelsian texts: see (1) Brief von Wilhelm von Hohenheim an seinen Sohn (§ 4.20), (2) Brief an Wilhelm von Hohenheim (§ 4.18), (3) Particularia des Wilhelm von Hohenheim für seinen Sohn (§ 7.10), (4) Eine gemeinsame Arbeit von Theophrastus mit seinem Vater (§ 7.6), (5) Die Metalle in die primam materiam zu bringen / Ein Process des Theophrastus für seinen Vater (§ 7.8).
Authenticity, authorship. Not authentic according to Sudhoff.
Time of writing. Further study required.
Manuscripts:
- Kremsmünster, Stiftsbibliothek: CC Cim. 8 f. 218r–218v
- Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek: Voss. Chym. Q.1, f. 43r
- Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek: Cod. Guelf. 49 Noviss. 8°, f. 42r
First printed:
- 1608 (in: Rosarium novum olympicum et benedictum. Das ist: Ein newer Gebenedeyter Philosophischer Rosengart, ed. Benedictus Figulus (Basel, 1608); VD17 12:133068G; Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica, 482–485 n° 283)
Historical Manuscript Catalogues: von Linden (1788), part 2, 52 n° 54
Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica, 484
Further bibliographical references:
Peuckert, Pansophie (1956), 316.
Boeren, Codices Vossiani Chymici (1975), 114.
Telle, “Paracelsus in pseudoparacelsischen Briefen” (2006–2007), 155 n. 27.
Broszinski, Manuscripta chemica in quarto (2011), 170.
CP 3 (2013).
