page_title: Grand Albert
section_title: Medieval editions
hierarchical_section_title: Grand Albert / Medieval editions
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Une des pages du livre d'Albert Le Grand "Les admirables secrets d'Albert Le Grand", censé avoir été édité en .. 6518 (en fait réédité à Lyon dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle)&#160;; page "Traité des vertus et propriétés de plusieurs sortes de fientes".
context_page_description: The Grand Albert is a grimoire that has often been attributed to Albertus Magnus. Begun perhaps around 1245, it received its definitive form in Latin around 1493, a French translation in 1500, and its most expansive and well-known French edition in 1703. Its original Latin title, Liber Secretorum Alberti Magni virtutibus herbarum, lapidum and animalium quorumdam, translates to English as "the book of secrets of Albert the Great on the virtues of herbs, stones and certain animals". It is also known under the names of The Secrets of Albert, Secreta Alberti, and Experimenta Alberti.
  Bibliographer Jacques-Charles Brunet described it as being "among popular books, the most famous and perhaps the most absurd.... It is only natural that the Book of Secrets was attributed to Albert the Great, because this doctor, very learned for his time, had, among his contemporaries, the reputation of being a sorcerer."
  This book is often accompanied by another, similar text, the Petit Albert, which has been called its "little brother". Its title is Alberti Parvi Lucii Libellus Mirabilibus Naturae Arcanis, or the "Book of the marvelous secrets of Little Albert".
context_section_description: The core of the book was written in the 13th century.
  The first known Latin edition dates back to 1493: Albertus Magnus, Liber aggregationis, Seu Liberetta secretorum of virtutibus herbarum lapidum and animalium quorundam. From mirabilibus mundi.
  The first French translation dates back to around 1500, in Turin: Le Grand Albert des Secrets des vertus des herbes, pierres, bêtes (In English: The Great Albert on the Secrets of the Virtues of Herbs, Stones, Beasts).
caption: A page from Les admirables secrets d'Albert Le Grand printed in the first half of the 19th century
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