Erklärung über Lukas 1
Printing History, Manuscripts. First edited by Johannes Staricius in 1618. Three manuscripts.
Editions. Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.
Relationship between different versions. Only one version known.
Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.
Relationship to other texts.
Authenticity, authorship. According to Gantenbein “possibly inauthentic, having been handed down in none of the early manuscripts. […] Quite untypical for authentic Paracelsian theology is the consistent use of alchemical terminology.” Sudhoff noted: “It is worth noting that this allegorical writing is completely absent from all the older manuscripts and we encounter it only in relatively late manuscripts.” “Another dubious writing […] most likely written by late Paracelsists,” according to Czifra.
Time of writing. Possibly written in the 1590s.
Manuscripts:
- Kopenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek: gks 1396 kvart, f. 215v–223r
- Roma, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Reg. lat. 1344, f. 119r–122v
- Salzburg, Salzburg Museum: Hs 840 (olim Paracelsiana 160), f. 93*v–98*v
- Wrocław/Breslau, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka: R 2316, f. 103v [fragment copied from the 1618 edition]
First printed:
- 1618 (in: Philosophia de limbo […] Doctoris Aurelij Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi ab Hohenhaim, ed. Johannes Staricius (Magdeburg: Johann Francke, 1618); VD17 23:263455M; Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica, 508–511 n° 303).
