Sancta veritas hermetica, seu concordantia philosophorum, consistens in sale et sole vel mercurio et sulphure, das ist die ehemals excerpirte und darauf mit eigener Hand experimentirte Sonnen-klare Wahrheit der Philosophen Schrifften
Sancta veritas hermetica is a 1712 German alchemical treatise attributed to Naxagoras and Ehrd de, published by the widow of Johann George Stecks and held in the C.G. Jung library, aimed at readers of hermetic philosophy. Its two pictures are a woodcut bouquet of stylised flowers in a vase, with rough hatched shading and a worn printed label at the base, and an engraved coat of arms within an oval Latin inscription, crowned and flanked by supporters. A designer could take the tightly hatched botanical woodcut for vintage ornament and the heraldic oval with its ribbon lettering for seals and emblem layouts.
