alchemical manuscript

Emblems from Sammlung unterschiedlicher bewährter chymischer Schriften, Johannes Isaac Holladus & Michael Sendivogius, 1746, including The Hand of the Philosophers and a Globus cruciger. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind

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Emblems from Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften, 18th Century Alchemical Diagrams from De Roode Leeuw, of het Sout der Philosophen Emblem 2 from Atalanta Fugiens, 1618

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The title plate from Michael Maier’s Arcana Arcanissima, 1614. Above are three figures from the Egyptian myth of the dismemberment of Osiris by his brother Typhon, and reassembling by his sister Isis. The Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus flank the sides and below are the Egyptian mythological creatures of Ibis, Apis, and Cynocephalus.

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Title page of De Arte divina & sacra Image from the title page of Aufschlüsse zur Magie by Karl Von Eckartshausen, 1791 Alchemical art of two fish from Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

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