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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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LXXX–CI: Nourishment, Perfection and Fermentation · Grand Elixir · Aphorism XCVII

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Original English

XCVII. When your Elixir is brought to a Fluxibility, and a perfect Fixedness, if you desire to make a Medicine upon Metals, you must determinate or ferment it with common Gold in Filings, in which Determination it will vitrify, and then you will have an incomparable Medicine, capable to transmute all imperfect Metals into the purest Gold, according to the Doctrine of all the Philosophers, thô our self never design'd any thing, but an universal Remedy for the Cure of all curable Diseases, incident to Human Bodies, as is well known to our Friends, who have enjoy'd the Benefit of these our Labors.

Modern English

XCVII. When your elixir has been brought to fusibility and perfect fixity, if you wish to make a medicine for metals, you must determine or ferment it with common gold in filings. In this determination it will vitrify. You will then have an incomparable medicine, capable of transmuting all imperfect metals into the purest gold, according to the doctrine of all the philosophers. Yet we ourselves never intended anything but a universal remedy for the cure of all curable diseases affecting human bodies, as is well known to our friends who have enjoyed the benefit of these labours of ours.

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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