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The Original Editor to the Reader
German & Latin
1723 scan 10–11Es werden zwar verschiedene / denen dieses Scriptum in Händen ist / gar ungern sehen / daß nun solches im Druck erscheinet und gemein gemacht wird. Alleine / da des zu dato noch unbekannten Autoris Intention allerdings gewesen / daß es durch die Publication vielen zu Nutz kommen soll / wie allhier hin und wieder / sonderlich aber p. 315. klar zu sehen; Zudem es auch in diesen Jahren ziemlich häuffig abgeschrieben worden / so daß man starcke Vermuthung bekommen / es werde doch von einem oder dem andern ans Licht gegeben werden: Als hoffe ich / sie werden mir dieses Unternehmen nicht so sehr verargen / die andern aber Danck wissen / daß ihnen eine solche hochschätzbare Sache um ein geringes aus guter Meynung mitgetheilt wird / und zwar aufs allerfideleste und vollständigste.
The Golden Chain of Homer: The Original Editor to the Reader
1723 scan 10–11Several people who possess this writing will certainly be very displeased to see it now appear in print and become public. Yet the intention of its author, whose identity remains unknown to this day, was undoubtedly that publication should benefit many people, as can clearly be seen here and there in the work, particularly on page 315. Moreover, so many copies have been made during these years that there is strong reason to suppose that someone or other will publish it in any event. I therefore hope that its possessors will not take my undertaking too badly, while others will be grateful that a thing of such great value is being communicated to them at little cost, with good intentions and in the most faithful and complete form.
Socrates
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
Historical Text and Translation
Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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