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A collection of carefully executed water-colour drawings of symbolic alchemical illustrations, and of alchemical apparatus: including also portraits of Hermes, Geber, Aristotle, and two other unnamed 'Philosophers'. The Latin text gives a summary of alchemical doctrine in explanation of the illustrations: at the end are 'Versus universales' beginning: 'VIinum [sic] si summas [sic] cum solo corpore ponas' and ending (line 27): 'Versiculi scripta reserua philosophica dicta'. These are followed by 50 numbered alchemical Aphorisms, and some others. Finally, a further poem of 24 lines, beginning: 'Os et res nostros perficiat diuina Maestas', and ending: 'Sic uerbis scripti ficta referunt philosophorum dicta'.

Chimica figurata

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