Re: Secret script of Simon Tadeas Budek

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > [Rafal:] A prime Czech alchemist was Simon Tadeas Budek the
    > Emperor's searcher for metal and gem. He abandoned handwriting
    > for a secret script. This tractate is in Vienna today. Simon
    > Tadeas Budek got his noble title "from Lesin and Falkenberk"
    > from Emperor Rudolf II.

Just curious: could Budek be the "Simon" who lived in Hajek's house
before Dee and Kelley, as reported by Fell-Smith:

    The excellent little study or "stove" (from "stube", German for
    study) in Dr. Hagek's house had been since 1518 the abode of some
    student of alchemy, skilful of the holy stone. The name of the
    alchemist, "Simon", was written up in gold and silver in several
    places in the room. Dee's eyes also fell daily on many cabalistic
    hieroglyphs, as well as on drawings or carvings of birds, fishes,
    flowers, fruits, leaves, and six vessels, all the work, he
    presumed, of Simon baccalaureus Pragensis. Over the door were the
    lines

      "Immortale Decus par gloriaque illi debentur
      Cujus ab ingenio est discolor hic paries,"

    and on the south wall of the study was a long quotation from some
    philosohical work ending with

      "Ars nostra est ludus puerum cum labor mulierum. 
      Scitote omnis filii artis hujus, quod nemo potest 
      colligere frusctus nostri Elixiris, nisi per 
      introitum nostri lapides Elementati, et si
      aliam viam quaerit, viam nunquam intrabit nec
      attinget. Rubigo est opus, quod sit ex solo auro,
      dum intraverit im suam humiditatem."
    
All the best,

--stolfi