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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52334	A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...	Nicols, Thomas.	1652 (1652)	Wing N1145; ESTC R3332	119,639	252

light it is green * See Andr. Bacc. in Annot de Nat. Gem. cap. de lap Turch Another way of triall of it is this The lower part is sometimes black from whence issue small veins which do insinuate themselves into the superficies A third way which is very much commended for this purpose dissolve calx in water then anoint the superficies of the gemm with it or put a little of this dissolved calx upon the superficies and if upon this the calx receive a tincture or colour from the gemm this will shew that gemm to be a very excellent Turchoys Of its dignity and value The excellency of the colour of this stone doth set its price and the breadth of it doth much enlarge the price It is of great esteem with Princes and much pleasure they take in its beauty and it being set in gold they wear it on their fingers The Mauritanians use this stone in physick and call it Peruzegi or Perozaa Mesues useth it in electuario de gemmis as Garcias ab horto hath observed Those Turchoyses that are of the bignesse of a filberd and have an excellent colour like unto a serene skie and not at all obscured with any black veins are sold for two hundred crowns a peice and more The breadth of the body of this stone doth appoint the price That which is of the exact colour of verdegrease or like unto a serene sky without any black veins is excellent Anselm Boet. pag. 137. c. 17. CHAP. XXXIII Of the Lapis Lazuli Description of the stone THe Lapis Lazuli is a fair ceruleous blue or sky-coloured stone void of all transparency and adorned with many bright golden specks It differeth saith Boetius from the Lapis Armenus in this that this stone is very hard and the Lapis Armenus is easily broken and powdred and wants with its softnesse the ornament of bright gold specks Its names In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Latine Caeruleus lapis and Cyaneus lapis in Italian Azuro ultra marino the Arabians call it Hager and Hazul Of this stone is made the excellent azure that is more pretious then gold It is also sometimes made of the Lapis Armenus The Lapis Lazuli is a pretious gemme which being polisht as other gemms is wont to be set in gold rings and worn on the finger Epiphanius doth reckon this gemme as a kind of Saphire which Plinie calleth Sapphirus Cyaneus or the male Saphire and saith it is a ceruleous gemme gloriously splendent with many bright golden starry specks Plinie lib. 37. c. 9. Of the places where it is found It is found in Africa Asia and Germanie in the gold mines the Lapis Armenus is the mother of it It is also found in Egypt Cyprus Scythia It is oftentimes of so great bignesse that spoons and hafts of knives are made of it If this stone being put into the fire doth not change its colour it is called Lapis Lazuli fixus of which is made that pretious blue colour called azure It s nature properties faculties Dioscorides saith that this stone hath a repercussive faculty Other Physicians have found by experience that it hath in it a purgative facultie and that it is good in all melancholy diseases and the Lapis Armenus hath the same faculties Antonius Musa Brassavolus in lib. de med purgant saith that the greatest dosis of it is a drachme and that it doth purge excellently well without any torment at all He prescribeth it in pills after this manner R. lapidis Lazuli praeparatiʒj Camphorae Anisi Cinnamomi Zinziberis Mastiches ana gr 6. Misce cum succo salviae vel diacatholico fiant Pilulae quinque Dosis est à ℈ ij adʒj aut in pilulis aut in pulvere aut in jure aut in aqua Boraginis aut in conserva Boraginis aut in vino Cretico It s dignity and value A pound of the fragments of this stone is worth ten crowns to make azure of Boet. 140. and if it be very good ten ounces of azure may be extracted out of it by three severall extractions The first of which extractions will be five ℥ ss in weight every ounce of which azure will be worth twenty crowns The second extraction which may amount in weight to a matter of three ounces will be worth five or six crowns an ounce and the third extraction which may amount in weight to two ounces may be worth in value a crown and a half or one crown CHAP. XXXIV Of the Lapis Armenus Description of the stone THe Lapis Armenus is a fair ceruleous sky-coloured stone of the same kind that the Lapis Lazuli is but very fragil and much softer void of all golden veins or bright aureous specks and loosing its colour in the fire Of its names It is called Lapis Armenus in Latine from the place whence it is brought namely Armenia In Italian Verdazure in Arabick Hager armeni in Germane Bergblau in French Verdazure that is blue mixt with green This Lapis Armenus being printed on a table by age degenerateth into a green colour which is contrary to the nature of a true azure for that remaineth constant and permanent without any alteration by continuance of time Its places There is an Orientall Lapis Armenus and a Germane Lapis Armenus The Orientall one is said to be known from the Germane one in that it looseth not its colour but becometh more illustrious and glorious in the fire This is meant of the Lapis Lazuli and not of the Lapis Armenus The Lapis Armenus is found in Ultabade a famous city in the kingdome of Balaguar It is brought from Venice and Germany into these parts It s nature properties and faculties This stone is esteemed good against all melancholy diseases Unwasht it purgeth by vomit without any difficultie but it being washt purgeth by stool for this purpose that it may lay down all irritation of the stomach to vomit it must be washt fiftie times Boetius Trallianus lib. 1. c. de melancholia saith that it doth not at all in its purging torment or trouble the partie that taketh it The dose of the unwasht stone is from ℈ iij to iiij more or lesse according as the disease or age or strength of the person will bear The dose of the washt stone is from ℈ v to ℈ vi in warm water for by this means it doth not a whit trouble or molest Or it may be taken in form of pills after this manner R. hierae picrae ℥ ss Epithymi ℥ ss Agarici ℈ iiii Scammoniae ℥ i Garyophyllorum ℈ i fiat pulvis tenuissimus cum melle rosato aut Cydoniato incorporentur Dosis est à ℈ ii ad ℈ iiji hae pilulae Catholicae sunt sive Panchymagogae for they purge all humours but especially adust and melancholy humours Guanerius doth prescribe this stone in the form of a powder in this manner R. Lap. Armeni quinquagies lotae ℈ ij Croci