Nicholas Flammel, his exposition of the hieroglyphicall figures which he caused to bee painted upon an arch in St. Innocents church-yard, in Paris : together with the secret booke of Artephius, and the epistle of Iohn Pontanus concerning both the theoricke and the practicke of the philosophers stone
This is a 1624 English alchemical treatise printed in London by T. S. for Thomas Walkley, presenting Nicholas Flamel's explanation of hieroglyphic figures carved on a Paris churchyard arch, with texts by Artephius and Pontanus for students of the philosopher's stone. Its pictures are small woodcut vignettes of robed, bearded men and women standing beside arches, scrolls and inscriptions, set within dense black-letter text; a designer could take their compact emblematic framing and arch-shaped compositions as models for symbolic borders.
