jan 1, 1280 - Summa perfectionis
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The most significant work of early Latin alchemy is Geber’s Summa perfectionis (Sum of Perfection), written about 1280, which fuses these two traditions, European craft and technological knowledge with Arabic alchemy.
1. The author took the name of the Arabic Jābir, although he was probably Paul of Taranto, an Italian Franciscan lecturer.
Esoteric rhetoric and mysterious insinuations (that imitates the Arabic style?)
Part of Psuedo-Geber Corpus, latin works purported to by Jabir ibn Hayyan (of the 8th century).
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