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Editorial Drawing of glass vessel containing figures relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Opusculum Alchemicum. Germany; second half 15th century. Source: Sloane 2560, f.7. Language: Latin.
- 2022-12-24
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Editorial Illustration of the marriage of the dragon and the tiger. A boy rides the tiger, and a girl rides the dragon. They infuse their energies into the alchemical crucible. Directions for endowment and vitality. China, 1615. Source: 15113.e.6. Language: Chin...
- 2022-01-18
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Editorial Mortar.
- 2021-02-19
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Editorial A large figure, most likely representing Hermes Trismegistus; at his head, a scroll bearing an inscription ('Est lapis occultus secreto fonte sepultus; he is embracing a large, stoppered flask (the arms of which bear writing), which contains a black fr...
- 2020-12-04
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Editorial Miniature of a king and queen bearing scrolls; he stands in the midst of a fire, she stands upon a full moon. Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise). Germany; 1582. Source: Harley 3469, f.10. Language: German.
- 2020-12-04
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Editorial (Fourth section): An orange sun with a human face; beneath, three animals: to the left, a red lion, affronté , a white eagle perching on its head and holding a horseshoe in its beak; in the centre, a red lion, affronté , a cockatrice perching on its ...
- 2020-12-02
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Editorial The base of the tree stands in a heptagonal battlemented enclosure filled with water, its trunk supporting a grapevine held at the bottom by a naked man and woman; alchemists stand in the seven turrets, each holding a flask with the word 'imbibing' ins...
- 2020-12-02
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Editorial Illustration of the marriage of the dragon and the tiger. A boy rides the tiger, and a girl rides the dragon. They infuse their energies into the alchemical crucible. Directions for endowment and vitality. China, 1615. Source: 15113.e.6. Language: Chin...
- 2020-12-02
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Editorial Illustration of the marriage of the dragon and the tiger. A boy rides the tiger, and a girl rides the dragon. They infuse their energies into the alchemical crucible. Directions for endowment and vitality. China, 1615. Source: 15113.e.6. Language: Chin...
- 2020-09-28
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Editorial (First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Drawings relating to alchemy. Alchemical Receipts. England; 15th century. (Whole folio) Drawings of emblems relating to alchemy; bird with wings outspread, coiled snake, sun, moon, and toad Image taken from Alchemical Receipts. Originally published/p...
- 2019-01-24
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Editorial Drawings relating to alchemy. Alchemical Receipts. England; 15th century. (Whole folio) Drawings of emblems relating to alchemy; bird with wings outspread, coiled snake, sun, moon, and toad Image taken from Alchemical Receipts. Originally published/p...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A large red and white rose, with four other smaller roses in profile. - the upper branches of an apple tree, from which is suspended a Christ-like figure (labels either side, 'Lingnam sapientiae' (sic) and 'Lignum vite'); from the trunk of the tree, a...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing showing glass vessel containing figures relating to an alchemical experiment involving sulphur and water; with text. Opusculum Alchemicum. Germany; second half 15th century. Source: Sloane 2560, f.12. Language: Latin.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial (First section) A medallion, partly damaged but containing some drawing in the lower half, atop a blank panel. - a monk-like figure reclining on a grassy platform, clothed in a white hooded robe, with his left eye closed; an angel standing at his feet,...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A large figure, most likely representing Hermes Trismegistus; at his head, a scroll bearing an inscription ('Est lapis occultus secreto fonte sepultus; he is embracing a large, stoppered flask (the arms of which bear writing), which contains a black fr...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A white dragon biting on the moon, and standing on a winged mappa mundi -style orb; from its belly, three red strands are descending, one each to a black, white and gold orb below. - verses; to the left, a man in peasant dress holding a staff that ends...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing of blue coloured glass vessel containing two naked figures wearing crowns, and a figure above them, relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse. 14th c...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing of a black coloured glass vessel relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse. 14th century-18th century. Source: Sloane 2560 f.8.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial The bottom half of a yellow orb, containing a white dove (the Holy Spirit?); beneath, an inscription ('Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in celo pater, filius et spiritus et his tres unum sunt'). A Hermes figure in a golden robe and white mantle, standin...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A burst of flame and on either side a lion salient before a wall, and two scrolls ('The mouth of the Collorick beware' and 'Heare is the last of the red stone and the beginning to put away the dead the elixir vita'). A sun above a crowned male Bird of ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Bringing together the four symbols. A dragon, tiger, tortoise and a bird, the animals of the four directions, surround an alchemical crucible. Directions for endowment and vitality. China, 1615. Source: 15113.e.6. Language: Chinese.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Two ladies, representing alchemical figures, on either side of a blue glass vessel, from which sprouts a flowering plant; with text relating to alchemy. Opusculum Alchemicum. Germany; second half 15th century. Source: Sloane 2560, f.5. Language: Latin.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A lion ('leo viridis') and a dragon ('basiliseus horribilis') salient , the left one white and the right one red, rearing up before a hermetic flask (labelled above 'matrimonium viri et mulieris', and below 'hec duo mercurious mundi') that contains gol...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial (Second section). Two lions salient , the left one red and the right one green, rearing up before a furnace (this design is absent from Ashmole Roll 53). - a green lion, affronté , with a sun with rays on the left and a moon on the right, both with hu...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Incipit Prologue I. Theophilus, De diversis artibus. 4th quarter of the 12th century-early 13th century. Contained In part of a collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts. Source: Harley 3915, f.20. Language: Latin.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A tower furnace enclosing two conjoined flasks that separate 'spiritus' (above) from 'anima' and 'corpus' (below); Latin verses on either side. - verse in English, in one stanza; beneath, a banded circle containing the signs of the zodiac, enclosing a...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Miniature of a king and queen bearing scrolls; he stands in the midst of a fire, she stands upon a full moon. Splendor Solis (an alchemical treatise). Germany; 1582. Source: Harley 3469, f.10. Language: German.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial An alchemical disciple receives a book from his master. The kneeling figure may represent Thomas Norton. The Ordinal of Alchemy. England [Bristol]; circa 1477. Source: Add. 10302, f.6v. Language: English.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial (Third section): A crowned female Bird of Hermes, biting on her left wing, and standing on an orange orb with spade-shaped rays; beneath, a blank scroll. - a sun with black and white rays and, at the centre, three orbs (green, white and red), linked by...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial (Fourth section): An orange sun with a human face; beneath, three animals: to the left, a red lion, affronté , a white eagle perching on its head and holding a horseshoe in its beak; in the centre, a red lion, affronté , a cockatrice perching on its ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial The base of the tree stands in a heptagonal battlemented enclosure filled with water, its trunk supporting a grapevine held at the bottom by a naked man and woman; alchemists stand in the seven turrets, each holding a flask with the word 'imbibing' ins...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A yellow sun, between two panels bearing verses; beneath, a crowned male Bird of Hermes biting on its left wing, with drops of blood falling on either side, and standing on a sea-filled orb stuck with feathers; beneath, verses and a blank scroll. A go...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A large red and white rose, with four other smaller roses in profile. Alchemical rolls (The Ripley Scrolls). late 16th century. Source: Add. 5025.(3) Detail.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A crescent moon, being bitten by a large brown dragon, beneath, standing on a winged mappa mundi -style orb upon which droplets of blood are falling from the dragon's belly. - verses, in four stanzas. - a waving male figure in peasant dress, holding a ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Illustration of the marriage of the dragon and the tiger. A boy rides the tiger, and a girl rides the dragon. They infuse their energies into the alchemical crucible. Directions for endowment and vitality. China, 1615. Source: 15113.e.6. Language: Chinese.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A naked, dragon-tailed woman hanging from the branches and caressing a naked man sat on the trunk of the tree; they are surrounded on either side by five gold feathers (to the left) or five silver feathers (to the right), each labelled ('spiritus', 'an...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A large figure, most likely representing Hermes Trismegistus; at his head, a largely illegible scroll; he is embracing a large, stoppered flask (the arms of which bear writing and symbols), which contains a black frog, feathers and tadpoles or droplets...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing of glass vessel containing figures relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Opusculum Alchemicum. Germany; second half 15th century. Source: Sloane 2560, f.7. Language: Latin.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Page of text. Theophilus, De diversis artibus. 4th quarter of the 12th century-early 13th century. Contained In part of a collection of chemical, alchemical and medical recipes and texts. Source: Harley 3915 f.36. Language: Latin.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing of a blue coloured glass vessel containing a star shaped figure relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse. 14th century-18th century. Source: Sloane ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Drawing of a black coloured glass vessel relating to alchemical experimentation, with text. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse. 14th century-18th century. Source: Sloane 2560 f.9.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Mortar.
- 2018-08-09
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Editorial Alchemical apparatus (From: Liber de secretis naturae).
- 2018-07-31
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Editorial Alchemical notebook.
- 2018-07-31
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Editorial Woulfe's alchemical apparatus for distilling the elixir. Peter Woulfe (1727?1803) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and alchemist. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Litera...
- 2018-07-30
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