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Melitsat kai hermeneia : das ist, Onomasticvm vnd Interpretatio, oder, Aussführliche Erklerung Leonharten Thurneyssers zum Thurn ... vber etliche frembde vn[d] (bey vielen hochgelarten, die der lateinischen vnd griechischen Sprach erfahren) vnbekante Nomina, Verba, Prouerbia, Dicta, Sylben, Caracter, vnd sonst Reden, deren nicht allein in theuren Philosophi vnd Medici Aurelij, Theophrasti, Paracelsi von Hohenheim, sondern auch in anderer Authorum Schrifften hin vnd wider weitleufftig gedacht ... : das ander Theil, in welchem fast jedes Wort, mit seiner eigenen Schrifft, nach der Völcker Etymologia oder eigenen Art vnd Weis zureden beschrieben worden ist

by: Thurneisser zum Thurn, Leonhard, 1530?-1596; Voltz, Nikolaus

Publication date: 1583

Topics: Alchemy, Dictionaries, Polyglot, Alchemy, Alphabets

Publisher: Gedruckt zu Berlin : Durch Nicolaum Voltzen

Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: German

Signatures: pi² )(² *² A-2Z² a²

Title printed in red and black, within an ornamental woodcut border; woodcut portrait of the author on verso ot t.p.; decorative initials

Pt. 1 of the Onomasticum, a glossary of Paracelsian terms entitled "Hermeneia", appeared in 16mo, 1574; pt. 3, a botanical dictionary to accompany his Historia, sive, Descriptio plantarum omnium, 1578, was never published

Largely a dictionary of alchemical terms, probably issued for use with his Megale chymia, 1583, with which is it often bound

With: Magna alchymia ... Gedruckt zu Cölln : Durch Johannem Gymnicum, 1587 (2874-521)

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica

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