23-05-2018, 05:33 AM
In addition to the extensive list by Marco in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , one may also mention an opinion expressed by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
It is unfortunately not very well documented, and to my best knowledge he only mentioned it in a number of letters.
These letters are scattered over several archives, mainly the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
He considered the MS to be Paracelsan, and d'Imperio ("Elegant Enigma", 1978) quotes a letter of Singer to John Tiltman:
"My own feeling [...] about the little figures of nude men and women in the organs of the body is that they are somehow connected with the "archaei" of the Paracelsan or spagyric school."
D'Imperio adds her own comment that she considers these drawings of tubes more related to plant parts than to organs of the body.
On a side note, Johannes Marcus Marci, owner of the MS in the 1660's, physician and close friend of the spagyric alchemist Georgius Baresch, who owned the MS before him, was himself attracted to the school of Paracelsus.
It is entirely possible that he had a similar opinion, but this is certainly speculation.
It is unfortunately not very well documented, and to my best knowledge he only mentioned it in a number of letters.
These letters are scattered over several archives, mainly the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
He considered the MS to be Paracelsan, and d'Imperio ("Elegant Enigma", 1978) quotes a letter of Singer to John Tiltman:
"My own feeling [...] about the little figures of nude men and women in the organs of the body is that they are somehow connected with the "archaei" of the Paracelsan or spagyric school."
D'Imperio adds her own comment that she considers these drawings of tubes more related to plant parts than to organs of the body.
On a side note, Johannes Marcus Marci, owner of the MS in the 1660's, physician and close friend of the spagyric alchemist Georgius Baresch, who owned the MS before him, was himself attracted to the school of Paracelsus.
It is entirely possible that he had a similar opinion, but this is certainly speculation.
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