[Treatise on alchemy, with symbolic figures. In Ge…]

Treatise on alchemy, with symbolic figures. [In German]. XVIIth century.
1. f1 De Generatione Metallorum Commentarii Walchii Schorndorffii. [Johannes Walch of Schondorff.]
[See Johann Grasshof, 'Der kleine Bauer', Strasbourg, 1619 (Ferguson I, 338) with the Commentary of Walchius.]
2. f4 [Notes from Leonardus Thurneisser. Includes 3 watercolour drawings of plates from his Quinta Essentia, Munster, 1570. The first is labelled 'Anima Mercurii' and shows a woman standing upon the moon within a nimbus of clouds. The second is labelled 'Spiritus Sulphuris' and shows a man standing among clouds holding a vessel of burning substance. The third labelled 'Corpus Minerale' shows a knight with a spear and shield.]
3. f7v [Notes from Isaac Holland 'Theoriam et praxin'.]
4. f21 Progressus ex Commentario Walchii Schorndorff.
5. f27-77 Extractus ex Cornelio Drebbel, Georgio Riplaeo [Ripley], Tractatus Comite Bernardi, Basilius [and various alchemical authorities.]
f78-91 [Blank.]
6. f92-99 [Notes on 'Processus phylosophicus' and 'de Marcasitis Plumbeis' in German.]
With two water colour drawings on inside front and back covers. The first shows a circular space in which water and fire are brought together, the second (inside back cover) entitled 'Elixir completum' shows a female figure rising from the water and fire.
In German, but with titles in Latin.

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