Secretum Secretorum
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The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum, also known as the Sirr al-Asrar, is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range o
Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's name.
Emerald Tablet
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The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table or the Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic text traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus. The ear
Secretum Secretorum
…Natural Heat, Food, Justice, Physiognomy, and Comportment. The enlarged 13th-century edition includes alchemical references and an early version of the Emerald Tablet. It was one of the most widely read texts of the High Middle Ages or even the most-read. Amid the 12th-century Renaissance's Recovery of Aristotle…
Manuscript of the oldest recension of the Emerald Tablet, recension A of the Book of the Secret of Creation. (Leipzig, Vollers 832).
Nineteenth-century Arabic text of the Emerald Tablet and part of its frame story in the Book of the Secret of Creation. (man. Tehran, Majles Library, 14456/IR1526).
1620 woodblock print of the beginning of the Guanzi section Tzu-Kung hypothesised to be the origin of the Emerald Tablet.
Fourteenth-century Arabic text of the Emerald Tablet from the Secret of Secrets (man. Berlin, Landberg 121).