Augmentum Solis (Die roten Juden)
Einen großen Schatz in geringer Zeit zu überkommen
Vermehrung des Theophrasti Sonnen
Printing History, Manuscripts. First printed in 1608, edited by Benedictus Figulus. Two manuscripts.
Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.
Relationship between different versions. Further study required.
Structure, genre/form, perspective, style. A strange alchemical process using the term “die roten jüden” (the Red Jews) as a Deckname for a certain substance.
Relationship to other texts.
Authenticity, authorship. The Munich manuscript is dated 1553 on the binding and is not attributed to Paracelsus.
Time of writing. Possibly written in the 1540s or earlier.
Manuscripts:
- München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: cgm 3741
- Kassel, Landesbibliothek: 4° Ms. chem. 96, 255
First printed:
- 1608 (in Benedictus Figulus, ed., Rosarium novum olympicum et benedictum. Das ist: Ein newer Gebenedeyter Philosophischer Rosengart (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, 696 n° 22.
Further bibliographical references:
Joachim Telle, “Was ist ein ‘roter Jude’? Bemerkungen zu einem pseudoparacelsischen Arkantext bei Benedictus Figulus,” in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Pharmazie (1976, n° 1), 5–8.
Andrew Colin Gow, The Red Jews. Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic Age 1200–1600 (Leiden, 1995), 173–175.
Broszinski, Manuscripta chemica in quarto (2011), 383.
Rebekka Voß, “Die roten Juden: christliche und jüdische Färbung,” in Rebekka Voß, Umstrittene Erlöser. Politik, Ideologie und jüdisch-christlicher Messianismus in Deutschland, 1500–1600 (Göttingen, 2011), 92–122.
