Back in 1981, while touring in Florence, I picked up a facsimile copy of this peculiar alchemical work. I was fascinated, and started a translation. Then, many years and moves later, I found my notes, and realized that I should either discard it or finish it. So, I Googled Nazari; and found that the book had not been translated; and that, in fact, a publisher of alchemical books had put out a request for someone to do it. I contacted him, he sent me money; and the result was published in 2002 by Adam McLean, of the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, in Glasgow, in a limited edition of 300.

It’s perhaps best known for its woodcuts, particularly the three-headed dragon below. And here’s a bit of the passage in which our narrator encounters that beastie.