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Author : Adam McLean
Release : 2011
Genre : Alchemy
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Book Synopsis Study Course on the Ripley Scroll by : Adam McLean
Download or read book Study Course on the Ripley Scroll written by Adam McLean. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam McLean
Release : 2021-11-18
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Book Synopsis Study Course on the Ripley Scroll by : Adam McLean
Download or read book Study Course on the Ripley Scroll written by Adam McLean. This book was released on 2021-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ripley Scroll is one of the most beautiful and important of alchemical manuscripts. It dates from the early 16th century. 21 examples have survived and the earliest is in Oxford. A late copy made in 1624 was recently sold (Dec 2000) in an auction at Sotheby's for £206,000 ($300,000). So it is an extremely valuable and rare work. The scroll is an English alchemical manuscript and is among the earliest alchemical works that incorporate allegorical imagery and text, it predates the well known 'Splendor solis' and 'Rosarium Philosophorum' illustrations. It has not yet been conclusively established that it was the work of George Ripley, but his name has always been associated with this scroll. In the first few months of 2002 I worked on making a facsimile of this famous work basing it upon three of the best known and earliest versions of the scroll. I redrew and coloured the images. Most of the surviving scrolls are in poor condition and the colouring has consequently faded, so making this facsimile provided the opportunity of recreating the scroll in its original vivid colours. I also have used my modern version of the text on the scroll. The original 15th/16th-century middle English verse is rather difficult for people inexperienced with this material to read.
Author : Anke Timmermann
Release : 2013-09-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Verse and Transmutation by : Anke Timmermann
Download or read book Verse and Transmutation written by Anke Timmermann. This book was released on 2013-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers’ stone through critical editions and studies on their histories in early modern manuscripts, literature and libraries.
Author : Elias Ashmole
Release : 2007-11-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum by : Elias Ashmole
Download or read book Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum written by Elias Ashmole. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To All Ingeniously Elaborate Students, In the most Divine Mysteries of Hermetique Learning." Or so British politician and Freemason ELIAS ASHMOLE (1617-1692) dedicated this curious artifact of the esoteric and spiritual philosophy of alchemy. An avid collector of antiquaries and other oddities (they were, upon his death, bequeathed to Oxford University, which used them to found the Ashmolean Museum), Ashmole counted among his treasures volumes of metaphysical poems available only in private, and fiercely guarded, manuscripts. In 1652, though, he collected many of these writings in this hefty tome, annotated with his own comments. Included are: . "The Ordinall of Alchimy" by Thomas Norton . "The Compound of Alchymie" by Sir George Ripley . "Liber Patris Sapientiae" . "The Tale of the Chanons Yeoman" by Geoffry Chaucer . "The Worke of John Dastin" . "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon" by the Viccar of Malden . "Bloomsfields Blossoms: Or, The Campe of Philosophy" . "Sir Ed Kelley Concerning the Philosopher's Stone" . and much more. Once a resource for such natural philosophers as Isaac Newton, the Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum remains an astonishing album of arcania.
Author : Jacob Wamberg
Release : 2006
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Art & Alchemy by : Jacob Wamberg
Download or read book Art & Alchemy written by Jacob Wamberg. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These richly illustrated articles cover the representation of alchemy in art from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. The authors, who are artists, curators and art historians from the US and Europe, address such topics as alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist and modernist art; Netherlandish 17th-century portrayals of alchemists; and alchemy as the forerunner of photography. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
