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Author	Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Title	Raymundi Lullii tractatus brevis et eruditus, de conservatione vitæ : item liber secretorum seu quintae essentiae : qui doctrinam eius extractionis, & applicationis ad corpus humanum, & ad opera mirabilia totius artis medicae facienda, nec non ad metallorum transmutationem instituit : est́que speculum & imago omnium librorum super his tractantium.
Publication Info.	Argentorati : Impensis Lazari Zetzneri, M. DC. XVI [1616]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Winthrop	Win 150	IN LIBRARY

Edition	Nunc primùm in lucem editus.
Description	[viii], 111, [1] pages. ; 17 c. (8vo)
Note	Printer's device on t.p.; initials.
	"The first work is a reprint of Libellus de conservatione vitae, published in Rome in 1516. The second work [p. 87-111], often titled De secretis naturae, a Lullian version of De consideratione quintae essentiae by Joannes de Rupescissa, was first printed in Venice in 1514 with the Consilia of Giovanni Matteo Ferrari de Gradi. Rogent and Duràn no. 64, 92, 179." --National Library of Medicine.
	Signatures: ):(⁴ A-G⁸.
Indexed In:	Wilkinson, R.S. Alchemical library of John Winthrop, Jr., 172
Local Note	Library copy from the Winthrop Collection. Disbound. Inscriptions on title page: 127 in pencil; no. 377 in ink; a plus sign or lower-case f in ink.
Subject	Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
	Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Genre or Form	Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- 17th century.
Added Author	Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365.
	Zetzner, Lazarus, -1616, bookseller.
	Winthrop, John, 1606-1676, former owner.
	Winthrop Collection (New York Society Library) ZNS
Added Title	Tractatus brevis et eruditus, de conservatione vitae
	Raymvndi Lvllii tractatvs brevis et eruditus, de conservatione vitae
	Tractatvs brevis et eruditus, de conservatione vitae

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