Pseudo-Albertus
Pseudo-Albertus or Pseudo-Albert is a term referring to the authors of works falsely ascribed to Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great). Such works include:
- Secreta mulierum
- Semita recta[1]
- Two works printed together under the title Liber aggregationis:[2]
- De virtutibus (fully Liber de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum, et animalium), also called Experimenta Alberti or Secreta Alberti
- De mirabilibus mundi
- Grand Albert, a collection of magical texts centred on the Liber aggregationis
- Petit Albert, an abridgement of the Grand Albert
References
[edit]- ^ Peter Grund (2009), "Textual Alchemy: The Transformation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's Semita Recta into the Mirror of Lights", Ambix: The Journal for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 56(3): 202–225.
- ^ Adam Gwyndaf Garbutt, Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge, PhD diss. (University of Toronto, 2018), pp. 147–178.