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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Azemasor

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Azemasor

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A name assigned to two historical pigment or mineral terms.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 9; facsimile PDF page 337.

Historical Definition

Azemasor is minium or cinnabar.

Meaning

The dictionary offers alternatives and does not select between them. The safe explanatory move is therefore to preserve both names and follow the surrounding text for its intended substance. Colour may help an author’s account, but colour alone does not prove that the two materials are identical.

Minium has its own dictionary entry. Aurum vitæ also compares a red product with ground cinnabar, explicitly as a resemblance. Together, these passages demonstrate the need to separate identification, alternative identification and comparison. Azemasor belongs to the second of those cases.

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Minium. A precipitated lead preparation with an explicit correction of terminology.

Aurum vitæ. A gold preparation identified through precipitation, heating and intense redness.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 9; facsimile PDF page 337 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Azemasor ; compare Minium, Aurum vitæ

See also. Minium; Aurum vitæ

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The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.