Basilius Valentinus

Contains English Translations of Works by Zosimos, Paracelsus, Basilius Valentinus, Thomas Vaughan, Edward Kelly, Janus Lacinius, Rudolf Hauschka... 

Maier, Michael. "The golden tripod, or, three choice chemical tracts. Namely (i.) That of Basilius Valentinus, a monk of the Benedictine Order called Practica, with twelve keys and an appendix, (ii.) The Crede Mihi, or Ordinal, of Thomas Norton, an English sage, (iii.) The Testament of a certain Cremer, Abbot of Westminster. Edited by Michael Maier." In From the Hermetic Museum. The Book of Lambspring..., ed. Derek Bryce, 41-160. Lampeter Llanerch Enterprises, 1987. 

Available through Early English Books Online. Contents l.The first book pp. 1-77 2. The second part of the last testament pp. 79-112. Separately title-paged and dated MDCLVI 3. The third part... pp. 113-147. MDCLVI 4. The fourth part... pp. 149-175. MDCLVI 5. Basilius Valentinus his XII. keyes, which is a treatise about the great Stone... 

Valentine, Basil. Basilius Valentinus, his XII. keyes, which is a treatise about the great stone of philosophers. London , 1656. 3 p. 1., 39, [1] p. 

With his Basilius Valentinus. .. his last will and testament. 1656-1657... 

Valentine, Basil. Conclusions and experiments of Basilius Valentinus. London , 1656 1 p.1.,21 p. 

Under this title are brought together his two treatises Of sulphur, vitriol, and magnet of the philosophers. With his Basilius Valentinus. .. his last will and testament. 1656-1657. 

Valentine, Basil. The third part of Basilius Valentinus His last testament treating of the universal work in the whole world, with a perfect declaration of the XII keys Wherein is significantly expressed the name of the great matter. There is an elucidation also of all his former writings, published for the good of the posterity, and such, that are lovers of wisdom. London Printed by S.G. B.G. for Edward Brewster, at the Crane in Saint Pauls Church- yard. 1670. rhttp //pwp.netcabo. pt/r,petrinus/Basilval3-e.html. 

Valentine, Basil. "The tract of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine concerning the greate Stone of the ancient sages." In From the Hermetic Museum. The Book of Lamhspring..., ed. Derek Bryce, 43-86. Lampeter Llanerch Enterprises, 1987. 

Valentine, Basil. The triumphal chariot of Antimony by Basilius Valentinus. [Richardson (TX)] R.A.M.S., n.d. 177p. 

Valentine, Basil.The triumphal chariot of antimony. By Basilius Valentinus. With the commentary of Theodore Kerckringus.. . . Being the Latin version published at Amsterdam in the year 1685 translated into English, with a biographical preface [by A. E. Waite], Edited by Arthur Edward Waite. London Elliott, 1893. 204p. 

Valentine, Basil. Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine. The Preface of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine Concerning The Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. rhttp //www.levi tv.com/alchemv/twelvkev.htmll. 

The symbol table following appeared in the "Last Will and Testament" of Basilius Valentinus. It has been augmented with symbols from other sources such as the Alchemist s Handbook of Fra. Albertus, Pemety s "The Great Art", Rola s book on Alchemy, items taken from the works of Agrippa and John Read and symbols from the... 

Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine, Concerning the Great Stone of the Ancient Sages. 

Here follow the Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine, with which we may open the doors of the knowledge of the Most Ancient Stone and unseal the Most Secret Fountain of Health. 

Bismuth, which has been known since ancient times, was often confused with lead and tin. Basilius Valentinus described some of its uses in 1450, but it was in 1753 that bismuth was shown by Claude Francois Geoffroy to be a distinct element. Bismuth occurs freely in nature and in such minerals as bismuthinite (Bi2S3), bismite (Bi203), and bismutite KBiObCO i. ... 

The first allegory is taken from The Twelve Keys, of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine —... 

Sasilius Valentinus. Although the collection of chemical writings attributed to the fifteenth-century Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus, contains this alleged portrait, there is no conclusive evidence that such a person ever lived. Although the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony and other writings commonly attributed to him are much too modem for the fifteenth century, they are nevertheless of great historical value. 

Since the alchemists considered natural antimony minerals to be the most suitable raw material for the transmutation of metals into gold, alchemical literature abounds in references to antimony (65). The most famous of the early monographs on this element is the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, which first appeared in 1604, in German. Johann Tholde, operator of a saltworks in Frankenhausen, Thuringia, the editor of this work, claimed that it had been written by a fifteenth-century Benedictine monk, Basilius Valentinus (3, 6). Since no conclusive evidence of the existence of this monk has been unearthed, and since the literary style... 

The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by Pseudo-Basilius Valentinus is published. 

Lemery adds the recipe for making a Dulcified Spirit of Salt of Basilius Valentinus take equal parts of Spirit of Salt and wine and digest for two or three days in a gentle sand heat. ... 

The earliest mention of explosives are to be found in the alchemical writings of the first half of the seventeenth century. Basilius Valentinus [1] described explosive gold which was a complex explosive salt formed by dissolving gold oxide in ammonia. At that time it was widely known that this substance is easily exploded by heat or direct contact with a flame. 

Basilius Valentinus, according to Fbluhavs, Z.ges. Schiess- u. Sprengstoffw. 4,258 (1909)... 

The older alchemists seem to have had no knowledge of this gas, even Basilius Valentinus in the fifteenth century [really the seventeenth] who repeatedly describes the solution of iron in sulphuric acid does not with any word mention the kind of air which is developed. Paracelsus, in the century following [really preceeding] first called attention to it. His Archidoxa contain the description of how iron is dissolved in dilute sulphuric acid with the observation Luft erhebt sich und bricht herfiir wie ein wind. ... 

Hermann Schelenz,11 also speaking of hydrogen, refers to Paracelsus and Tholden as having had it in their hands. Tholden is the accepted author of the Basilius Valentinus literature. 

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