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Philosophers' Stone

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Somnium de tota philosophici lapidis perfectione by Pseudo-Aristotle with commentary, 1478

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Identifier: MS 131/f. 129r
Contents During the Middle Ages, several Latin works which show no connections with his surviving Greek writings have been attributed to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384/3 BC - 322 BC), one of the greatest intellectual authorities of the period. This manuscript is the only witness of this short text which concerns a dream about the perfection of the philosophers' stone.It begins on f. 129r and it is introduced by the words Incipit somnium preclarissimi...
Dates: 1478