Pandora, das ist die edlest Gab Gottes oder der werde und heilsame Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi, auch Theophrastus Paracelsus, die unvollkommene Metallen durch Gewalt des Fewrs verbessert ... Ein guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber dieser Kunst ... errettet ist worden ...
Pandora, published in 1588 by Hieronymus Reusner and printed by Sebastian Henricpetri, is a German alchemical treatise on the philosopher's stone, drawn from Paracelsus and older philosophers and aimed at adepts of the art. Its pictures are small woodcut emblems with heraldic shields, winged figures, dragons, trees and a serpent-ringed bird, all ruled into framed panels with German and Latin captions, offering a designer dense symbolic compositions, banderole lettering and hand-cut ornament.
