A Chymical Dictionary

Bibliography and Acknowledgments

Historical witness. A Chymicall Dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus and other obscure authours. London, printed by Richard Cotes for Thomas Williams, 1650. Separately titled dictionary in A New Light of Alchymie. English version attributed to John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The title leaf itself does not name either man.

Getty Research Institute copy. Internet Archive identifier newlightofalchym00sedz, Getty call number 374378. Dictionary title and definitions checked in PDF sequence pages 327–376. Consult the facsimile. This edition newly typesets the historical wording; it does not reproduce the page photographs.

Wellcome Collection catalogue. Record nxy235ys identifies John French, describes the dictionary’s relationship to Dorn and records the separately titled components of the 1650 volume. Consult the bibliographical record.

Project Gutenberg electronic transcription, ebook 61112. Prepared by Emmanuel Ackerman, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images made available through Internet Archive. Used as a transcription aid, with the dictionary checked against the printed witness. Its rearrangement and editorial interventions are distinguished from the original printing. Consult the transcription.

Diotimos Editions prepared the modernised definitions, expanded contextual articles, reading routes and finding indexes for this edition. Historical definitions and new interpretation remain separately labelled throughout. The paired digital Lexicon records use the same stable identifiers and editorial text.