Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance, c. 1493-1541) The flowres of Paracelsus, manuscript in a fine cursive, 11pp. excluding 2 blank ff. at end, first f. soiled, [c. 1620] § Paracelsus his Paramira..., manuscript in Secretary hand, 2pp. excluding conjugate blank, slightly creased, [c. 1630], ruled in red, central folds, edges chipped, watermark of the arms of Burgundy and Austria with the insignia of the Golden Fleece, disbound, folio (2).

⁂ Translations into English of some writings by Paracelsus. The best known English translator was John Hester (d. 1592), distiller; he "translated two of Paracelsus's works as The Key of Philosophie (1580) and 114 Experiments (1583?)." (Oxford DNB). Both manuscripts date from the early 17th century but are in two different hands. The first is a digest of metalline medicines and the second, treatments derived from herbs.