The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, xxvii. 



how much, if any, of the original is 

 to be attributed to Valentine.) 



Haliographia : concerning the Prepara- 

 tion, the Use, and the Virtues of all 

 Salts, mineral, animal, and vegetable ; 

 from the manuscripts of Basilius 

 Valentinus, collected by And. Sal- 

 minicius, Bononia, 1644, ^ va 

 (Doubtful.) 



Secret Books, or Last Testament of 

 Basil Valentine, of the Benedictine 

 Order. Copied from the original 

 which was discovered in the high 

 altar of the Church at Erfurt, under 

 a marble tablet. Now printed in 

 accordance with numerous requests 

 on the part of the Sons of the 

 Doctrine. Strasburg, at the cost of 

 Caspar Dietzel, 1645.* (Contains 

 long treatises on mines and the 



* " According to Glaus Borrichius, he enclosed his 

 writings in one of the pillars of the abbey church ; they 

 remained for many years in this hiding-place, but were at 

 length discovered by the fortunate violence of a thunder- 

 bolt." Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers. But Olaus 

 Borrichius wrote his De Arte et Progressu C he mice in 1668, 

 and probably derived his information from the so-called 

 Last Testament. 



