Aurora consurgens

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. [For discussion see [http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-2/obrist.htm#n78 this article] by Barbara Obrist.]

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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References

*Aquinas, St Thomas. "Aurora Consurgens" (1966) edited by Marie-Louise von Franz