Here's my go at the Latin:
“Symbolic chemistry”, which faces the following chemical manuscript.
On page 69 a title reads: “A copy of the second manuscript of chemical magic, the original of which is preserved at the Holy Cross Monastery, and which was handed over to me ['concessum'?] in 1748. This manuscript contains some things that are worth knowing and which seem to succeed in practice; certain other matters which are raised in the more commonplace manner of the chemists [i.e. presumably pure chemistry rather than alchemy]; matters that might be commended more to theory [rebus??] than to practice; and, finally, some rural superstitions and magic spells for devouring souls [sic], as well as something about the magic mirror known as the “English mirror”, and which latter matters are here omitted (for I did not wish to describe them).
NB. The preceding illustrations relate to this manuscript.
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A useful first step might be to try and identify the Holy Cross Monastery referred to. Is it the one in Augsburg that Mozart was associated with or this one perhaps?:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Heilig_Kreuz_(Donauw%C3%B6rth)Last edited on Wed Feb 29th, 2012 08:44 pm by Paul Ferguson
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