M0010606: Philosopher bearing a staff with a scroll wrapped around it, from an alchemical scroll: "Rotulum hieroglyphicum G. Riplaei Equitis Aurati"

Date:
12 May 1948
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/93/81
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M0010606: Philosopher bearing a staff with a scroll wrapped around it, from an alchemical scroll: "Rotulum hieroglyphicum G. Riplaei Equitis Aurati". Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Last of five panels in an alchemical scroll. It is a copy of a copy made in 1588, of the "Emblematicall scrowle: supposed to be invented by Geo. Ripley" as it is described by Elias Ashmole in his Theatrum chemicum Britannicum, London 1652, p.375. Related images: M0010601, M0010602, M0010603, M0010604, M0010605

Publication/Creation

12 May 1948

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.692

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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