Aureum Vellus

Supplementum Auiei Velleiis, pp.llf., in Aureum Vellus Oder Giildenes Vliess (Frankfurt, 1733). 

According to the preface to Aureum Vellus, Trismosin set out on his wanderings in 1473. The first alchemist he came across was a miner named Flocker, but he was extremely secretive and Trismosin learned nothing from him. "He used a process with common lead," Trismosin recounts, "adding to it a peculiar Sulfur, or Brimstone, he fixed the lead until it became hard, then fluid, and later on soft like Wax. Of this prepared lead he took 20 loth [10 ounces], and 1 mark [about 8 ounces] pure unalloyed silver, cast it in an ingot, when half of it was gold.. . . Shortly thereafter he tumbled down a mine and no one could tell what was the artifice he had used."... 

Mennens, Willem. Aureum vellus, in Theatrum chemicum (Strasbourg Zetzner, 1660), vol. 5, pp. 240-428. 

C. Engraving from the 1708 Hamburg Printed Edition. (Salomon Trismosin, Aureum Vellus, oder Guldin Schatz und Kunstkammer, Hamburg)... 

The title page of the Aureum Vellus (Rorschach, 1598) makes the claim that the author of the Splendor Solis was Paracelsus teacher, but we have not established the basis of this claim. 

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