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Rosary of the Philosophers
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<h2 id="manuscripts">Manuscripts</h2> <p>The Latin text also survives in numerous manuscripts, none of them predating the 1550 print edition. </p> <ul><li>late 16th century <ul><li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 6.</li> <li>British Library Sloane MS 2560.</li> <li>British Library Add MS 29895.</li> <li>Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1487.</li> <li>Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS. Lat. 7171.</li> <li>Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana MS. Reg. Lat. 1278.</li> <li>Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek MS. Chart. B. 365.</li> <li>Darmstadt, Hessiche Landesbibliothek MS. 1049.</li> <li>Kassel, Landesbibliothek MS. 2° Chym. 21.</li> <li>Kassel, Landesbibliothek MS. 4° Chym. 81.</li> <li>Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum MS. 16752. [8vo. NW 1482.]</li> <li>Leiden MS. Vossianus Chym. F. 12. (dated 1575)</li> <li>Rome, Biblioteca dell'Accademia dei Lincei. MS. Verginelli-Rota 6 (dated 1597)</li> <li>Marburg MS. 101. (c. 1600)</li></ul></li> <li>17th century <ul><li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 96.</li> <li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 149.</li> <li>Getty Center. Manly Palmer Hall MS. 232.</li> <li>St. Gallen, Bibliothek Vadiana MS. 394 a.</li> <li>St. Gallen, Bibliothek Vadiana MS. 394 b.</li></ul></li> <li>18th century <ul><li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 210.</li> <li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 29.</li> <li>Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 74.</li> <li>Getty Center. Manly Palmer Hall MS. 49.</li> <li>Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica MS. 86.</li></ul></li> <li>19th century <ul><li>Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica MS. 219.</li> <li>Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica MS. 303.</li></ul></li> <li>London, Wellcome Library MS. 1091.</li> <li>London, Wellcome Library MS. 4256.</li></ul> <h2 id="translations">Translations</h2> <p>The text of MS Ferguson 210, in <a href="/facts/Glasgow_University_Library/8pAhgRNI">Glasgow University Library</a>, is the basis of an English translation that was published in the 18th century. The English translation reproduces the coloured drawings of the Ferguson MS as woodcuts. </p><p>There is also a Czech translation, dated to 1578, by <a href="/facts/Jaro%C5%A1_Griemiller/xCAsac4T">Jaroš Griemiller</a>, kept in the National Library of <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>, <a href="/facts/Czech_Republic/vJYLD66Q">Czech Republic</a>. The Czech manuscript reproduces the illustrations as line drawings. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/april2009.html"><i>The Rosarium Philosophorum</i></a>. <a href="/facts/University_of_Glasgow/D0XAYMtq">University of Glasgow</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/rosary0.html">Text at The Alchemy Website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/virtual_museum/rosarium_philosophorum_room.html">Woodcuts at The Alchemy Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ob76mCHji08C"><i>De alchimia opuscula - Rosarium philosophorum</i> (1550)</a> Google Books</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Karen-Claire Voss, The Hierosgamos Theme in the Images of the Rosarium Philosophorum, Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Alchemy , ed. by Z.R.W.M. von Martels. E.J. Brill: Leiden, 1990; Cod. 78 A 11 (1410s) Cgm 598 <a href="http://www.istanbul-yes-istanbul.co.uk/alchemy/Rosariumfinal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.istanbul-yes-istanbul.co.uk/alchemy/Rosariumfinal.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>