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Philip IV, 1268-1314 (King of France)

 Person

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Dates

  • Existence: 1268 - 1314

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Testamentum Novum by Pseudo-Ramon Llull or Pseudo-Arnaldus of Villanova, 1478

 part
Identifier: MS 131/ff. 29v-33v
Contents An alchemic work dedicated to King Philip IV of France (1268-1314) and ostensibly written by an anonymous philosopher on his death bed. Dorothea Singer (see Bibliography) suggests that it could have been part of the alchemic corpus attributed to Ramon Llull (c. 1232-c. 1315), a polymath of great fame who paved to way to subsequent knowledge in many fields such as mathematics, logic, and theology. Several texts have been falsely attributed to Llull and started to circulate under his name from...
Dates: 1478
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including twenty-seven texts