The Imagery of the Twelve Keys: Basil Valentine

By: Valentine, Basil

The 'Twelve Keys', ascribed to Basil Valentine, was printed under different names and as part of collections of texts. Thus the French versions appeared as Les Douze Clefs, and there were versions in German included in Vom dem Grosses Stein and the Chymische Schriften.
The sequence of publications through the 17th into the late 18th century used a number of different woodcut and engraved versions of the imagery of the 'Keys'.
For the first time all these different versions are printed, together with the text and the later commentary in the 'Last Testament'.

Basil Valentine is an anonymous pseudonym of an unidentified late 16th early 17th century author whose birth and death dates date is are unknown.
The work was first published at Eissleben in Germany in 1599 without the images.
Website link https: //www.alchemywebsite.com/twelve_keys.html
The introduction and my research into the imagery are under my copyright.
The Basil Valentine text was originally translated by Arthur Edward Waite 1857-1942] from the 17th century Latin edition, for Waite's Hermetic Museum restored and enlarged, London, 1893. Waite's translation is now in the public domain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DNTRSZ4W
• ISBN13: 9798300434977
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"