GEMSTONES
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p119v “Gesnerus de lapidibus”
- Conrad Gessner, Ortus sanitatis de herbis et plantis. De animalibus et reptilibus. De avibus et volatilibus de piscibus et natatilibus de lapidibus de urinis et earum speciebus tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus, Strasbourg, Johann I Prüß, 1507.
- Conrad Gessner, Ortus sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De animalibus & reptilibus. De avibus & volatilibus. De piscibus & natatilibus. De lapidibus & in terre venis nascentibus. De urinis & earum speciebus. Tabula medicinalis cum directorio generali per omnes tractatus, Venezia, per Bernardino Benali & Giovanni Tacuino, 1511.
- Conrad Gessner, De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc primum editi. Operâ, Zürich, excudebat Hans Jakob Geßner, 1565.
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- Barney, S., Lewis, W., Beach, J. and Bergh of, O., The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (Cambridge: 2006), 317-36.
- Albertus, Magnus. The secrets of Albertus Magnus Date: 1681-1684
- Evans, J. and Serjeantson, M., English Medieval Lapidaries, Early English Text Society original series 190 (London: 1933), 16-37.
- Gimma, G., Della Storia Naturale Dell Gemme (Naples: 1730), Volume 1, 131-7.
- William Salmon. Polygraphice: Or the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limming, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming : in Seven Books. Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles, 1685
Imitation Jacinth and/or Sapphire
- Pliny, The Natural History, books 33-37 (book 36 includes Pliny’s natural history of stones): __http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc__
- Earle R. Caley, “The Stockholm Papyrus: An English Translation with Brief Notes”, Journal of Chemical Education 4 (1927), pp. 979-1002.
- In Merrifield:
- Pg 374. Bolongnese MS. “De Multis et Diversis Azurris Naturalibus”
-->24. To make azure and know the place where it is produced. - Pg 506. Bolongnese MS. “Ad Lapides Anullorum Compoonendos”
-->238. To make stones for rings that is to say,precious gems clear and of fine color.
Antimony
- Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony by Roger Bacon
- The Secret Book of Artephius (transcribed from 'In Pursuit of Gold' by 'Lapidus')