Title: A
Testament of Alchemy: Being the Revelations of Morienus, Ancient Adept and
Hermit of Jerusalem to Khalid Ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiyya, King of the Arabs of The
Divine Secrets of the Magisterium and Accomplishment of the Alchemical Art
Author: STAVENHAGEN,
Lee (Edited, translated & with commentary by)
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
City: Hanover, NHYear: 1974 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First edition from 1974. Octavo.
iv + 76pp. Original black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. B/w plates. The first authoritative translation of the dialogues of Morienus and Khalid ibn
Yazid. These are "reputed to be the first work of Arabic alchemy
translated into Latin," and to have "set the tone for European
alchemical thought, remaining popular and widely influential from the
thirteenth century until the Enlightenment." A tight and clean very good copy with dust jacket in equally excellent condition.
