Apotelesmata philosophica Mercvrii trivmphantis
Subtitle: de vera et svmma antiquissimorum philosophorum medicina : in qvibvs elvcidatio & clauis totius operis
By: labore & studio Arioponi Cephali Evtopiensis
Publisher: Excudebat Andreas Seydner
Published: 1601
Place of publication: Magdebvrgi
Language: lat
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Alchemy; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Apotelesmata philosophica Mercurii triumphantis; De vera et summa antiquissimorum philosophorum medicina
Notes: The key to the author's Mercurius triumphans, first published in 1600. Mercurius triumphans was first published at Magdeburg, 1599, and issued in an enlarged ed. the following year. The 5 sections of the present work correspond to the 5 books of the 1599 ed.

Dedication to Rudolph II signed M.C.M.D. ... (i.e. Martinus Copus medicinae doctor).

Woodcut coat of arms of the Copi de Calvis family at H1v.

Includes 2 poems: Ad familiae Coporvm de Calvis insignia, H2r. Paraeneticvm ad ... Martinvm Copvm... : carmen Henrici Bolschenii, H2v-I4v.

Woodcut printer's device of crowned salamander in flames, as in Mercurius triumphans, repeated on final page with different Latin motto. Cf. Ferguson. Initial, headpieces of printers' ornaments, tailpieces.

Signatures: A-Ip4s.

Hogart, R.  Alchemy, 27

Ferguson, J.  Bib. chemica, I:150

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