CLAVIS ARTIS 17TH CENTURY

Clavis Artis (17th century) is a manuscript of alchemy and is attributed to the Persian Zoroaster. It was brought to light by Vinci Verginelli and Nino Rota (yes, the composer), who spent a great deal of time and money in order to gather a "corpus" of nearly 400 volumes of ancient hermetic books from the 16th to the 18th century, nearly 60 ancient hermetic manuscripts from the 15th to the 19th century and nearly 2,000 modern hermetic books from the 19th and 20th century.