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Nicolas Flamel. Line engraving.

A building in Paris, previously the home of Nicolas Flamel, the famous 14th century alchemist. Photograph.

A street in Paris, along which is the Hotel Helvétia, previously the home of Nicolas Flamel, the fourteenth-century alchemist. Photograph.

Le mythe de Nicolas Flamel ou les mécanismes de la pseudépigraphie alchimique / Robert Halleux.

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Christ, with a sword in his mouth, between seven candlesticks; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 1772/3.

Three men ride through the sky on black, red and white lions (colours of the alchemical process); beneath, men lay sprawled among dismembered limbs. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.

A king presiding over a massacre of infants; soldiers pour the blood of the infants into a boiling vat; probably representing the stage of 'putrefaction' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

The pregnant Virgin Mary, with a dragon at her feet; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Colour painting after etching, 1772/3.

The magi sheltering in a cave on the way to Bethlehem; here representing mercury converted into sulphur, at the moment of its fixation in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 17th century.

Trevisanvs de chymico miracvlo qvod lapidem philosophiæ appellant. Dionys. Zecharivs Gallus de eodem / auctoritatibus varijs principum huius artis, Democriti, Gebri, Lvlli, Villanovani, confirmati et illustrati per Gerardvm Dornevm.

Des berhuhmten Philosophi Nicolai Flamelli Chymische Wercke, alss 1. Das güldene Kleinod der hierogliphischen Figuren. 2. Das Kleinod der Philosophiae. 3. Summarium philosophicum. 4. Die grosse Erklärung des Steins der Weissen zur Verwandelung aller Metallen. 5. Schatz der Philosophiae. Den Liebhabern der Kunst aus dem Französchen [sic] in das Teutsche über gesetzt von J. L.

Medicina practica; or, Practical physick. : Shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artefius Longaevus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon, and George Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English ... Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes ... In three books.

Aurifontina chymica; or a collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers, for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury ... / [John Frederick Houpreght].

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Trevisanvs de chymico miracvlo qvod lapidem philosophiæ appellant. Dionys. Zecharivs Gallus de eodem / auctoritatibus varijs principum huius artis, Democriti, Gebri, Lvlli, Villanovani, confirmati et illustrati per Gerardvm Dornevm.

Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Aurifontina chymica; or a collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers, for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury ... / [John Frederick Houpreght].

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Nicolas Flamel

Images from the collections

Images by Nicolas Flamel

Images featuring Nicolas Flamel

Works from the collections

Trevisanvs de chymico miracvlo qvod lapidem philosophiæ appellant. Dionys. Zecharivs Gallus de eodem / auctoritatibus varijs principum huius artis, Democriti, Gebri, Lvlli, Villanovani, confirmati et illustrati per Gerardvm Dornevm.

Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.

Aurifontina chymica; or a collection of fourteen small treatises concerning the first matter of philosophers, for the discovery of their (hitherto so much concealed) mercury ... / [John Frederick Houpreght].

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