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The Original Editor’s Afterword
German & Latin
1723 scan 443Nachdem diß Wercklein bis auf das Register bereits aus der Presse war / hat man noch ein ander Manuscript erhalten / mit welchem dann die gedruckten Bogen conferirt worden: Dahero man die variantes lectiones / oder an welchen Orten dort es anders gelautet / hier noch anzeigen wollen. Man hat aber auch befunden / daß offtmals nicht nur etliche Zeilen / sondern halbe und gantze Seiten im gemeldeten geschriebenen Exemplar ausgelassen waren; ja das gantze Stück von pag. 66. lin. 9. an bis pag. 90. lin. 19. darinne gefehlet hat / und so sind der meisten Herren Possessorum ihre MSS. beschaffen. Die Errata typographica sollen hier auch mit angehängt werden / (wiewol viele zu den variantibus lectionibus gehöret hätten) damit der geneigte Leser solche corrigiren könne / und nichts hierbey unterlassen werde / was derselbe desideriren möchte.
The Golden Chain of Homer: The Original Editor’s Afterword
1723 scan 443After this little work had already come off the press, apart from the index, another manuscript was received, against which the printed sheets were then compared. We therefore wished also to indicate here the variant readings, or the places where its wording differed. We found, however, that not only a few lines but often half-pages and whole pages had been omitted from that handwritten copy. Indeed, the entire passage from page 66, line 9, to page 90, line 19, was missing from it, and most of the manuscripts belonging to their possessors are of this kind. The typographical errors are also to be appended here, although many would have belonged among the variant readings, so that the kindly reader can correct them and nothing that he might desire is left undone.
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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.
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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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