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Aureum vellus, oder, Guldin Schatz und Kunstkam[m]er : darinnen der aller fürnemisten, fürtreffenlichsten, ausserlesenesten, herrlichisten vnd bewehrteste[n] Auctorum Schrifften vnd Bücher, auss dem gar vralte[n] Schatz vberblibnen verborgnen, hinderhaltenen Reliquien vnd Monumenten der Aegyptiorum, Arabum, Chaldaeorum & Assyriorum Königen vnd Weysen

Trismosin, Salomon author, Straub, Leonhard, -1601, printer, Paracelsus, 1493-1541 · 1598 · Getruckt zu Rorschach am Bodensee : [Leonhard Straub] · 17 pictures

An alchemical compendium printed in 1598 at Rorschach on Lake Constance by Leonhard Straub, collecting texts attributed to Salomon Trismosin and Paracelsus for German-speaking readers of hermetic and chemical learning. The pictures are woodcut printers' ornaments: a decorated initial letter, a pierced cartouche with grotesque masks, a scrolled band and an interlace strip, useful to designers for historic ornamental borders and initials.

Alchemy

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