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Basilius Valentinus

Frater Basilius Valentinus, Frontispiece from  Basilius Valentinus, Chymische Schrifften, anjetzo zum vierdten mahl zusammen gedruckt, aufs fleissigste aus einigen alten MS. gecorrigiret, mit vielen in vorigen Editionen ausgelassenen Passagen und Tractaten, auch etlichen Figuren, vermehret mit einem generalen vollständigen Register versehen, und in drey Theile verfasset / ... Basilius Innovatus, das ist, Fr. Basilii Valentini, Ordin. Benedict. Chymische Schrifften ... nebst einer neuen Vorrede, worinnen von Lesung und Critique der Alchymistischen Schrifften, ihren Scribenten, neuen Projections - Historien, der Materia Prima Philosophica, dem Leben des Basilii, und was in dieser Edition besonders praestiret worden einige Nachricht mitgetheilet wird von Bened. Nic. Petraeo. Hamburg : Samuel Heyle, 1717.
A man wearing a monk's robe with a tonsure stands, facing right, holding a piece of glassware in his left hand; his right hand rests upon a book.  The legend around the portrait reads:
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Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but more likely a pseudonym used by one or several 16th-century German authors. (From Wikipedia)

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