Bernhard of Treviso

This period was prolific in alchemical writings by many anonymous and pseudonymous writers or by persons whose dates and personalities are more or less vague and doubtful. Prominent among these are Johanus de Rupescissa, about 1350 Richard Ortulanus, about 1350 Nicholas Flam-ellus (Flamel), 1330-1413 ( ) Bernhard of Treviso, 1406-... 

Whether Latin or vernacular, this medieval alchemical corpus was becoming increasingly available to sixteenth-century Europeans. Texts certainly continued to circulate in manuscript even a century after the invention of the printing press indeed, until the middle of the sixteenth century, it is likely that most alchemical texts remained in manuscript form (and this is especially true if one takes into account recipe books).23 When Sommering recommended Sternhals s Ritter Krieg to Julius, for example, he could only have had a manuscript in mind, since this fifteenth-century text would not be available in print for another two decades. Nevertheless, from the middle of the sixteenth century onward printers seem to have discovered a healthy market for alchemical texts, particularly those that dealt with medicine and the transmutation of metals, since they issued sixteenth-century editions of older treatises attributed (both pseudonymously and authentically) to authorities such as Raymond Lull and Bernhard of Treviso.24... 

Alchemist "You only speak in riddles - tell me, are you the Well, of which Count Bernhard of Treviso writes "... 

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