The Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum follows in the tradition of earlier collections, such as the seventeenth-century Theatrum Chemicum and Jean-Jacques Manget's Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa (Geneva, 1702), though these collections are in Latin rather than German.
The texts also include more curious selections, such as legal advice on which spouse owns silverware which has been transmuted into gold.
This also makes it clear that Roth-Scholtz was aiming the book at a wider, bourgeois readership than did the editors of the earlier Latin language editions, which largely appealed to scholars.
John Ferguson[1] praised the book for their introductions and biographical information, which are printed with material not otherwise accessible, such as the studies of Georg Wolfgang Wedel on Basilius Valentinus.
This volume contains primarily texts attributed to Roger Bacon, sometimes incorrectly.