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Baro Urbigerus

Aphorismi Urbigerani

The Complete 1690 Volume · With Circulatum Minus

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Aphorismi Urbigerani: Historical Glossary

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Salt

A principle associated with the prepared earth or bodily foundation, and a fixed vegetable subject in the companion. The author follows it through purification, reception and union with spirit. “Salt” is not silently converted into common table salt or another uniquely specified modern compound. See main 66, vegetable 6, vegetable 12.

Sulphur

A principle linked with soul, metallic essence, internal fire and tincture. The work’s multiple names are relational explanations rather than a licence to substitute ordinary sulphur everywhere. In the vegetable sequence a sulphurous medium strengthens the soul and enables a union of body and spirit. See main 65, vegetable 6, vegetable 7.

Virgin’s Milk

A name for the author’s mercurial or silvery water, later explicitly associated with simple mercury feeding the infant. The image links whiteness, nourishment and a prepared subject. It is not a reference to literal milk, and its interpretation should follow the text’s own local identifications. See main 20, main 44, main 83.

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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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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The historical text and engraving are public domain. The EEBO-TCP Phase 2 transcription is released under CC0; that waiver does not cover associated images. The engraving is credited to the Getty Research Institute copy digitised by Internet Archive. The supplied 2026 reading, translations and Diotimos editorial material are published with the site owner’s authorization.