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You mean the book "The Sum of Perfection" - Summa Perfectionis Magisterii, which is not ancient but medieval.

It was almost certainly originally written in the 8th century by the Arab writer Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan and translated into Latin in the 13th century by a Franciscan monk known as Paul of Taranto, who used the pseudonym Geber. It was perhaps the most famous book on alchemy known in Europe during the medieval period.

Geber's translation was viewed as a kind of bible of alchemy; however this did not in any way help medieval alchemists turn lead into gold, which is one of their major aims.

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