APPENDIX III 



LIBER DKDALI PHILOSOPHI 



Eiccardian Library, Florence, L. III. 13, 119, p. 195 verso and 

 196, recto. 



[I have re-arranged the paragraphs of this treatise so as to fall opposite the 

 rresponding parts of the Liber Luminis, but have numbered them according to 

 ir original order so that by following the numbers the book can be read in its 

 n proper form.] 



1. De natura salium et quot sunt. Sales autem sunt diver- 

 rum specierum est enim sal commune sal masse sal gemme sal 

 ibeum sal nitrum sal alkali sal armoniacum sal elebrot album. 



Aristotle in the De Anima (i. 3) says that there was a legend of Daedalus 

 lich represented him as having given motion to a Venus of wood by filling it 

 th mercury. This may have suggested the adoption of his name to the author 

 10 wrote this alchemical treatise. 



