(13-06-2023, 06:21 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is page 14 to 18 ( with blank pages counted ),isn't it ? "Planta arborem" means "Plant a tree" according to my translator. This time I will not fall for the headlineYes. I assumed Google had the wrong translation but it is correct, imperative and accusative.
Incipit tractatus qui dicitur planta arborem.
Planta arborem et edifica sibi domum rotundum, hoc est dicere habeas mercurium preparatum
in vase vitrio rotundo positum, et pone in eo hominem centum annorum id est solem puris
simum foliatum vel limatum, et ille senex non cessabit comedere de fructu illius
arbus.
The round house is the (brick) athanor, obviously.
A few other manuscripts in the Thorndike-Kibre catalogue of incipits:
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A similar metaphor in the Turba philosophorum:
Accipe illam albam arborem et aedifica ei domum circumdantem...