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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi UrbigeraniLXXX–CI: Nourishment, Perfection and Fermentation · Modern English

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LXXX–CI: Nourishment, Perfection and Fermentation · Modern English

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Original English

LXXXII. Take great Care, that you do not begin your Imbibitions of your Earth, before you find it to be very well purify'd, clarify'd, dry'd, and brought to be very subtil, and extremely frangible: for it would be a great Detriment as well to your Work, as to your Mercury; and, althô it should not spoil your Work, yet it would be to you a great loss of Time.

Modern English

LXXXII. Take great care not to begin the imbibitions of your earth before you find it thoroughly purified, clarified, dried, made very fine and rendered extremely brittle. Otherwise you would greatly harm both your work and your mercury. Even if it did not spoil your work, it would cause you a great loss of time.

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1690 Aphorismi Urbigerani: historical frontispiece and Latin inscriptions, title and licence, dedication, all 101 grand-elixir aphorisms, the complete Circulatum Minus with its title, address and 31 vegetable aphorisms, and the full explanatory postscript with both printed endings. Original and modern English readings, fresh Latin translations, 115 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Baro Urbigerus, Aphorismi Urbigerani, London: Henry Faithorne, 1690; with Circulatum Minus Urbigeranum and the concluding postscript. The Getty Research Institute copy supplies the governing images; EEBO-TCP A25684 supplies the structured transcription witness, corrected against those images. The frontispiece signed W. F. is attributed in library catalogues to William Faithorne.

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