De lapide philosophorum, qui lapis amoris appellatur

I. Basic information

Printing History, Manuscripts. Not printed. Two manuscripts.

Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.

Relationship between different versions.

Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.

Relationship to other texts.

Authenticity, authorship.

Time of writing. Karl Widemann received the text in 1588 from Gabriel Örtl (Leiden manuscript). According to Peuckert written in 1576 (no sources given).

II. Sources

Manuscripts:

• Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek: Voss. Chym. Q.17, f. 65v–66v
• Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 11259, f. 209r–214r

First printed: not printed

III. Bibliography

Essential bibliography: Sudhoff, Paracelsus-Handschriften, 797 n° IV/5.

Further bibliographical references:

Peuckert, Pansophie (1956), 321, 472.

Julius Ruska, “Pseudepigraphe Rasis-Schriften,” Osiris, 7 (1939), 31–94, on 66.

Gerhard Eis, “Eine medizinisch-alchemistische Sammelhandschrift des Augsburger Paracelsisten Gabriel Örtel,” Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 40 (1958), 251–262, on 251; reprinted in Gerhard Eis, Vor und nach Paracelsus. Untersuchungen über Hohenheims Traditionsverbundenheit und Nachrichten über seine Anhänger (Stuttgart, 1965), 113–127, on 114.

Boeren, Codices Vossiani Chymici (1975), 143.