APPENDIX III 



LIBER DEDALI PHILOSOPHI 



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

 p. 196, recto. 



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

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

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

 own proper form.] 



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

 sarum specierum est enim sal commune sal masse sal gemme sal 

 rubeum sal nitrum sal alkali sal armoniacum sal elebrot album. 



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

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

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

 who wrote this alchemical treatise. 



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