The Hermetic Museum

The Hermetic Museum restored and enlarged was published in Latin at Frankfort in the year 1678 and as its title implies it was an enlarged form of an anterior work which appearing in 1625 is more scarce but intrinsically of less value. Its design was apparently to supply in a compact form a representative collection of the more brief and less ancient alchemical writers; in this respect it may be regarded as a supplement to those large storehouses of Hermetic learning such as the Theatrum Chemicum and that scarcely less colossal of Mangetus the Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa which are largely concerned with the cream of the archaic literature with the works of Geber and the adepts of the school of Arabia with the writings attributed to Hermes with those of Raymond Lully Arnold de Villa Nova Bernard Trevisan and others.