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Antimony

Antimonial cinnabar

Cinober

The father speaks of the butter’s own cinnabar and links it to the butter’s acquisition of colour.

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Centrum Naturae Concentratum

Attributed to Ali Puli · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
cinnabar, antimonial cinnabar, Cinober.

Meaning

The father speaks of the butter’s own cinnabar and links it to the butter’s acquisition of colour. The possessive is important: the named deposit belongs to the antimonial operation as narrated, rather than being introduced as an unrelated specimen. Nothing in the name alone proves that the historical deposit has one precise modern composition. The supplied edition accordingly retains cinnabar without silently identifying it with a specified mercury compound. Nor should it be made synonymous with the regulus or butter itself.

Places to read

  1. The Last Testament of a Father to His Beloved Son · Passage 19, paragraph 1German“seinem eigenen Cinober” The possessive links the named material to the butter’s narrated work.