Lull, Raymond

Lully, Raymond. The alchemical corpus attributed to Raymond Lull edited by Mi chela Pereira. London Warburg Institute, University of London, 1989. vi, 118p. 

Morpurgo, Piero. Review of The alchemical corpus attributed to Raymond Lull, by Michela Pereira. In NunciusA 5, no. 2 (1990) 294-297.. ... 

Singer, Dorothea Waley. The alchemical testament attributed to Raymond Lull. Archeion 9, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1928) 43-52. 

Barber, W.T.A. Raymond Lull the illuminated doctor a study in mediaeval missions. London Kelly, 1903. 172p. 

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... 

The Alchemial Corpus Attributed to Raymond Lull. London The... 

These qualities led alchemists to infer that the quintessence of wine should be able to preserve living human bodies as well as it preserved meat. Unlike mineral acids, it was also a safe solvent for human ingestion. From this arose the notion that quintessence could be used both as an alchemical medicine for internal use and as an ingredient in the transmutation of metals. This theory was set out in great detail in one of the most influential alchemical treatises of the fourteenth century, the Liber de secretis naturae, seu de quinta essentia (The Book of the Secrets of Nature, or, concerning the Quintessence), attributed to the Majorcan philosopher Raymond Lull (ca. 1232-ca. 1316). Pseudo-Raymond described the quintessence as a vegetable mercury, or resolutive menstmum [23]. 

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