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Splendor Solis: The World's Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript

Skinner, Prinke, Hedesan and Godwin, 2019

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A full color scholarly commentary volume on the Splendor Solis manuscript tradition, combining art historical, codicological and alchemical analysis by four specialists, with Joscelyn Godwin providing the first English translation made directly from the Early New High German of the Harley 3469 manuscript rather than through the corrupted French intermediary earlier translations relied on.

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Written by named academic and museum specialists, including an Oxford historian of alchemy and a former Bodleian and British Library manuscripts curator, but issued by a specialist esoteric press rather than a university press.
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A specialist scholarly study of the Splendor Solis manuscript tradition and its best known copy, combining codicology, art history and a direct translation of the German text. Published by a specialist esoteric press rather than a university press, but written by named academic and museum specialists and cited as the standard modern treatment.
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Stephen Skinner, Rafal T. Prinke, Georgiana Hedesan and Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher
Watkins Publishing
Publication Year
2019
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Scholarly work
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Splendor Solis: The World's Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript
Stephen Skinner, Rafal T. Prinke, Georgiana Hedesan and Joscelyn Godwin, Watkins Publishing, 2019
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  • Esoteric Texts, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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