Belli Esperimenti Sopra li Metalli e Minerali Scritti e Mandati Alla Maesta Cesarea del Imperatore Leopoldo Da Giouanni Baptista Coene Di Passauia Pho.
This paper manuscript, produced around 1700, mentions in its title
Emperor Leopold (I, reigned 1658-1705). The identity of Giovanni
Baptista Coene from Passau, named as author, remains obscure; no
further information is available about him. — The names of metals
and other materials that Coene used in experiments are not written
out in the text, but are represented by alchemic symbols (planetary
signs, etc.). Because these occur in large numbers, the text is not
easily readable or understandable. Further evidence that the
manuscript is rooted in alchemy comes from the fact that Coene
refers to Paracelsus (1493/94-1541), e.g., in the short final
chapter with the title “Che cosa il Balsamo Samech di
Paracelso” (pp. 101-102). Coene also mentions the
“Testamentum” (pp. 99-100) and names Raimundus Lullus
(1232/33-1315/16) as its author; today it is considered a
pseudo-Llull text. — Within the chapters, individual paragraphs
are numbered, but in the last quarter of the manuscript this
numbering seems to have been added later (pp. 81-102). At the end
of the manuscript, the numbering is incorrect (instead from p.
70ff. it should read correctly p. 97ff.). — The manuscripts was
purchased in Italy in 1952.
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