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EspañolAURORA CONSURGENS
:''For Angra's album, see Aurora Consurgens (album).''
The '''Aurora consurgens''' is an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century in the Zurich Zentralbibliothek (MS. Rhenoviensis 172). It contains a medieval alchemical treatise, in the past sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas, now to a writer called the "Pseudo-Aquinas". Unusually for a work of this type, the manuscript contains thirty-eight fine miniatures in watercolour.[1]
Other illuminated manuscripts of the ''Aurora consurgens'' include:
★ Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 6;
★ Leiden, MS. Vossiani Chemici F. 29;
★ Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. Parisinus Latinus 14006;
★ Prague, Universitni Knihovna, MS. VI. Fd. 26;
★ Prague, Chapitre Métropolitain, MS. 1663. O. LXXIX;
★ Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS. Germ. qu. 848.
1. For discussion see this article by Barbara Obrist.
★ Aquinas, St Thomas. ''Aurora Consurgens'' (1966) edited by Marie-Louise von Franz
The '''Aurora consurgens''' is an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century in the Zurich Zentralbibliothek (MS. Rhenoviensis 172). It contains a medieval alchemical treatise, in the past sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas, now to a writer called the "Pseudo-Aquinas". Unusually for a work of this type, the manuscript contains thirty-eight fine miniatures in watercolour.[1]
Other illuminated manuscripts of the ''Aurora consurgens'' include:
★ Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 6;
★ Leiden, MS. Vossiani Chemici F. 29;
★ Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. Parisinus Latinus 14006;
★ Prague, Universitni Knihovna, MS. VI. Fd. 26;
★ Prague, Chapitre Métropolitain, MS. 1663. O. LXXIX;
★ Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS. Germ. qu. 848.
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Notes
1. For discussion see this article by Barbara Obrist.
Reference
★ Aquinas, St Thomas. ''Aurora Consurgens'' (1966) edited by Marie-Louise von Franz
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