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DWS, No. 262, lists three in England at Cambridge, Oxford, and the British Museum. See Appendix 39 for others. LULLIAN ALCHEMY 55 which opponents as well as adherents of alchemy might agree. 193 These Aphorisms are presum¬ ably culled from various works of the Lullian alchemical collec¬ tion, but it does not seem worth while to attempt to trace each to its source. There are three works on the border-line between medicine and alchemy which the Histoire litteraire does not include among the alchemical treatises attributed to Lull but which may with some propriety be put with that collection since, like its com¬ ponents, they appear to be not by Lull but written after his death and since they to some extent envisage metallic remedies or elixirs of life.

5846. LULLIAN ALCHEMY 43 colors, separation, potency, operation, perfect being, fermenta¬ tion, and perfect poison. ), inceration, sublimation, the stone, the elements, and the vessel. In the manuscript copies of the Tertia distinctio which I have seen the second list was considered first, and the order and names in both cases were slightly different. But the De cura individuorum may safely be classed as a version or per¬ version of the Tertia distinctio. Finally we come to the epilogue or disputation with the monk which follows the Tertia distinctio and its Questionarium.

Treatise is entitled: "Liber Raymundi, . " For the MSS see Appendix 39. 1! 176 In a third manuscript of the fifteenth century a work en¬ titled Donum dei is called in the margin De intentione alchimistarum but seems a different text, in four brief books, from either of those previously mentioned. In yet a fourth manuscript of the sixteenth century a Compendium or Lumen luminum is fur¬ ther entitled De intentione alchimistarum but seems to offer yet a fourth text. Indeed, the manuscript in which it is found con¬ sists almost entirely of works added to the Lullian collection after i5oo.

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