page_title: Musaeum Hermeticum
hierarchical_section_title: Musaeum Hermeticum
caption_attribution_description: Die sieben Plnatenherrscher im Hades. Illustration in the book "Musæum Hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum" (en:Musaeum Hermeticum), 1625
context_page_description: Musaeum Hermeticum is a compendium of alchemical texts first published in German, in Frankfurt, 1625 by Lucas Jennis. Additional material was added for the 1678 Latin edition, which in turn was reprinted in 1749.
  Its purpose was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of relatively brief and less ancient alchemical writings; it could be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum, or Jean-Jacques Manget's Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa. It seemed to represent a distinctive school in Alchemy, less committed to the past and less obscure than the works of older and more traditional alchemical masters.
  The full Latin title is: "Musæum Hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque Medicina, qua res omne, qualemcumque defectum patientes, instaurari possunt inveniri ac haberi queat inveniri ac haberi queat. Continens tractatus chymicos novem præatantissimos, quorum nomina et seriem versa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus Germanicum Idioma ignotum, in Latinum conversum ac juris publici factum.
  Jennis"
  The first edition contained:
context_section_description: Musaeum Hermeticum ("Hermetic library") is a compendium of alchemical texts first published in German, in Frankfurt, 1625 by Lucas Jennis. Additional material was added for the 1678 Latin edition, which in turn was reprinted in 1749.
  Its purpose was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of relatively brief and less ancient alchemical writings; it could be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum, or Jean-Jacques Manget's Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa. It seemed to represent a distinctive school in Alchemy, less committed to the past and less obscure than the works of older and more traditional alchemical masters.
  The full Latin title is: "Musæum Hermeticum, omnes sopho-spagyricæ artis discipulos fidelissime erudiens, quo pacto summa illa veraque Medicina, qua res omne, qualemcumque defectum patientes, instaurari possunt (quæ alias Benedictus Lapis Sapientum appellatur) inveniri ac haberi queat inveniri ac haberi queat. Continens tractatus chymicos novem præatantissimos, quorum nomina et seriem versa pagella indicabit. In gratiam filiorum doctrinæ, quibus Germanicum Idioma ignotum, in Latinum conversum ac juris publici factum.
  Jennis"
  The first edition contained:
  The Remonstrances of Nature ascribed to Jean de Meung
  The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine
  Subtle Allegory (Michael Maier)
  Three Treatise of Philalethes
  The Book of Alze
  Open Entrance to the Closed Palace - Philalethes
  A Tract of Great Price
  The Only True Way
  The Testament of Cremer
  The Glory of the World
  The Waterstone of the Wise
  The Golden Tract concerning the Philosopher's Stone
  The illustrated book contains 445 + 35 pages.
  The 1678 edition is 863 pages long, and includes: 
  Aureus tractatus de philosophorum lapide
  Aureum seculum redivivum
  Hydrolithus sophicus
  Aquarium sapientum
  Demonstratio naturae, quam errantibus chymicis facit
  Via veritatis unicae
  Elegans, perutile et praestans opusculum, viam veritatis aperiens
  Gloria mundi, aliâs, paradysi tabula
  Vera priscae scientiae descriptio
  De lapide philosophico tractatus eximius
  Lambsprinck nobilis germani philosophi antiqui libellus De lapide philosophico
  De lapide philosophico
  Tripus Aureus
  Tres tractatus chymici selectissimi
  Basilii Valentini, benedictini ordinis monachi, Germani, practica una cum 12. clavibus et appendice
  Practica cum duodecim clavibus et appendice, de magno lapide antiquorum sapientum
  Testamentum cremeri, abbatis westmonasteriensis, angli, ordinis benedictine
  Novum lumen chemicum, e naturae fonte et manuali experientia depromptum
  Introitus apertus, ad occlusum regis palatium
  Subtilis allegoria super secreta chymiae perspicuae utilitatis et iucundae meditationis
  Philalethae tractatus tres
  Metallorum metamorphosis
  Brevis manuductio ad rubinum coelestum
  Fons chymicae veritatis
  Vitulus aureus
caption: Frontispiece of the Musaeum Hermeticum
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