The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, xix. 



pose of, because nothing is known about 

 him, nor, indeed, has it been possible to 

 discover by whom his claim has been 

 preferred. At the period of Theolde's 

 activity, we find Johannes Tanckius 

 editing a collection of alchemical tracts, 

 among which there is a brief epistle by 

 Gallus Eschenreuter, or Schonreuter, but 

 there is nothing known concerning him. * 

 Boerhaave denies that there was a 

 monastery of S. Peter's at Erfurt, but on 

 this point there is no reasonable doubt. 

 A certain Mollenbseck, whose identity 

 is difficult to determine, while his record 

 does not seem to remain, so far, at least, 

 as libraries in England are concerned is 

 said to have visited it personally, and to 

 have ascertained from the prior that the 

 name of Basil Valentine did not appear 

 on the records. What is more to the 

 purpose is the testimony of Joannes 

 Mauritius Gudenus, the historian of 



* See the Epistle of Ga'lus Schonreuter, Doctor of 

 Medicine and Ordinary Physical Chemist at Galenstadt, 

 addressed to William Gratalorum. It is the third tract in 

 the collection, entitled Opuscula Chemica. 1605, 8vo. 



