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Rodríguez Guerrero, José, "Desarrollo y madurez del concepto de quintaesencia alquímica en la Europa medieval (s. XII-XIV)", Azogue: Revista Electrónica Dedicada al Estudio Histórico Crítico de la Alquimia, 5 (2002 - 2007), 30-56.

Resum
The quintessence was a key element in late medieval alchemy. I will discuss the origin of the concept from its vague beginnings in the 13th Century, well summarized by Restoro d'Arezzo (ca.1282), to the critical meeting in the early 14th century. I will focus my research on a less-known text by Ortholan of Paris, entitled Liber super textum hermetis (pre.1325). It consists of two sections. The first is a guide to elaborate a pure quintessence or “Stone of Life”, obtained by distillation and rectification of wine. Ortholan thought of alcohol as the quintessence almost a quarter of century before John of Rupescissa's book De quinta essentia. The second section of the Liber super textum hermetis is a popular commentary on the Emerald Tablet that usually circulated as an independent work. It defines quintessence as the first of all things created by God, the pure element of which the cosmos was made.
Matèries
Alquímia
Medicina - Farmacologia
URL
http:/​/​www.revistaazogue.com/​Azogue5-3.pdf
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).