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<b>Printing History, Manuscripts.</b> A collection of “secrets,” first printed in 1717, reprinted at least in 1720, 1726, 1729, 1732, 1737, 1756, in some cases with newly appended secrets.

<b>Editions.</b> Not edited by Huser or Sudhoff.

<b>Relationship between different versions.</b>

<b>Structure, genre/form, perspective, style.</b>

<b>Relationship to other texts.</b> Parts of the <i>138 Geheimnisse</i> are parallel to <i>Experimenta</i> attributed to Andreas Tentzel. These <i>Experimenta</i> are dated 1615, but were probably published for the first time in 1725.

<b>Authenticity, authorship.</b> Not a pseudo-Paracelsian work, but a collection of short texts including these texts that are attributed to or mention Paracelsus: “Daß Granat-Aepffel von allerhand Arten zusammen gesetzt/ aneinander wachsen” (23, n° 20), “Das Senechthon Theophrasti” (46, n° 41), “Von denen Olympischen Geistern des Theophrasti” (113–114, n° 122), “Von denen magischen Spiegeln” (121–122, n° 130), “Theophrasti magisches Glöcklein zu machen” (n° 131), “De Secretis Secretorum Thesauro Philosophor[um]” (127–129, n° 136).

<b>Time of writing.</b> According to the preface, the collector (“Der Herr Collector”) was already deceased at the time of publication. The secret n° 45 mentions university studies in 1664 in Bern (Switzerland).

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<b>Manuscripts:</b> no manuscripts known

<b>First printed:</b>
* <b>1717</b> (<i>Hundert Acht und Dreyßig Gantz Neu-entdeckte Geheimnüsse Oder Sonderbahre bißher unbekannte und noch nie an das Tages-Licht gegebene Secrete</i> (Frankfurt a.M.-Leipzig: Johann Martin Hagen, 1717); VD18, 12226580)

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<b>Essential bibliography:</b>

<b>Further bibliographical references:</b>

Will-Erich Peuckert, “Paracelsische Zauberei,” <i>Nova Acta Paracelsica</i>, 8 (1957), 71–94, on 92–93.

Peuckert, <i>Gabalia</i> (1967), 212–213, 259, 312, 337–357, 556–557.

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