Thanks, Khem, that gives me some sources to work with. With the tin attributed to mercury, it would make a lot more sense for the Holy Table in and of itself. And it would mean changing the metal would be unnecessary.
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Aaron
--- On Wed, 9/1/10, Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] John Dee, Alchemy and Metals
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 2:47 PM
> Aaron Leitch doth schreibble:
> >
> > What I would like to know is whether or not there are
> alchemical
> > lists, that Dee is likely to have consulted, that
> attribute tin
> > to Mercury.
>
> List A, in Zuretti's *Catalogue des manuscrits
> alchimiques grecs*, shows the following :
>
> Saturn: lead
> Jupiter: electrum
> Mars: iron
> Sun: gold
> Venus: bronze
> *Mercury: tin*
> Moon: silver
>
> This list is identical to that found in the *Scholia*
> on Pindar: *Isthmian 4:2*, and in Proclus: *Procli in
> Platonis Timaeum commentaria* 18B, volume 1, page 43,
> ed. E. Diehl, 3 volumes, 1903–6, cf. Olympiodorus:
> *In Aristotelis Meteorologica* 3,6, pages 266-267, ed.
> Wilhelm Stuve, 1900.
>
> With regard to the yellow lettering:
>
> I make my own mineral pigments and paints, and there is
> an entire /range/ of yellow pigments derived from minerals
> that were available in Dee's day ( and now ), as well as
> brilliant vegetable dyes that were often blended with
> them.
>
> See :
>
> *Realgar*
> @WebExhibits.org
> http://tinyurl.com/28buf7d
>
> *Orpiment/Auripigmentum*
> @WebExhibits.org
> http://tinyurl.com/2f7kxgq
>
> *Lead-Tin Yellow*
> @WebExhibits.org
> http://tinyurl.com/2by8wwx
>
> *Naples Yellow*
> @WebExhibits.org
> http://tinyurl.com/27j56a5
>
> *Yellow Ochre*
> @WebExhibits.org
> http://tinyurl.com/27vy9x4
>
> The Ocher above isn't really a good example - take a look
> at these:
>
> *Natural Earth and Ochers*
> @EarthPigments.com
> http://tinyurl.com/2flao68
>
> Gold leaf or powder clearly wasn't the only, or even the
> most likely, of the options for the colouring matter
> employed in making the Holy Table.
>
> Cors in Manu Domine,
>
>
> ~ Khem Caigan
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
> Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
> Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
> Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
>
> *Of the Division of Chaos*
> -Dr. Simon Forman
>
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