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De alchemia dialogi II. : quorum prior genuinam libroru Gebri sententiam, de industria ab authore celatam & figurato sermone inuolutam, retegit & certis argumentis probat : alter Raimundi Lullij Maioricani mysteria in lucem producit : quibus praemittuntur, Propositiones centum uiginti nouem, idem argumentum compendiosa breuitate complectentes

Braccesco, Giovanni, 16th cent, Espositione di Geber filosofo Latin, Braccesco, Giovanni, 16th cent. Legno della vita. Latin, Gratarolo, Guglielmo, 1516?-1568? · 1548 · Norimbergae : Apud Iohan. Petreium · 2 pictures

A 1548 Latin treatise on alchemy printed in Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius, collecting dialogues attributed to Geber and Ramon Llull for scholars and practitioners of the period. Its two pictures are small woodcut initial letters, a C and a D, set in square frames with dense hatched foliage and a figure, the kind of decorative capital a designer could adapt for display type or framed borders.

Jabir ibn Hayyan · Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 · Alchemy

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