[MANUSCRIPT - ALCHEMY]. BOOK OF GEORGE RIPLEE... - Lot 1 - Artenchères

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[MANUSCRIPT - ALCHEMY]. BOOK OF GEORGE RIPLEE... - Lot 1 - Artenchères
[MANUSCRIPT - ALCHEMY]. BOOK OF GEORGE RIPLEE (and other authors with annotations), where are contained all his works collected by Combacius that he translated from English into Latin printed in Cassel the Year 1649... Begun to translate into French on August 25, 1703. Divided into 12 parts. In folio, brown calf, gilt fleurons on the corners of the boards, spine gilt, edges gilt, copy ruled in red ink (18th century binding). Precious French manuscript of 234 pages, of good quality and excellent writing, punctuated with numerous alchemical symbols, begun on August 25, 1703, and including several treatises on alchemy. It offers the following parts. Translation and comments on : - The Book of the 12 Gates. - The book of mercury and the stone of the philosophers (philosopher's stone). - The mouelle of the physical chemistry. - The philorcium of the alchemists. - The key to the Golden Gate. (132 pages in figures). - Ten canons of an uncertain author on physics by means of which the good hearers and children of the art will discover a sufficient entrance for the desired end. (3 pages). - Of the stone matter of the stone of the philosophers. (6 pages). - Colloquy of the Spirit of Mercury to Brother Albert. (8 pages). - The very excellent treatise of the secrets of Albert the Great. (10 pages). - The chemical ballot of the secrets of nature by Michel Mayer, Count of the S. Empire, on the copy of the bookshop of George Henry, Oehrling, printed by Philippe André, 1687. (156 pages). Contains 50 empty rectangles with mottoes and epigrams placed underneath, which were intended for illustrations. - Three tracts by Thomas Vaugan angl. called Philalethe. (52 pages). - Of the transmutation and metamorphoses of metals. - The Brief and succinct way to the celestial ruby. - The fountain of the chymic truth. - Introitus apertus ad occlusum Regis Palatium (23 pages). The parts 6 to 12 announced on the first page are not present (see detail above). The first leaf is decorated with a large armorial coat of arms drawn in pencil with the motto "Anima Virtutis Decus" (the Soul of Virtue) two lions and two chevrons surmounting a smiling face. Numerous (blank?) leaves have been cut off in fine, numerous annotations and clarifications in the margins, nice condition inside. Defects to the binding (dull corners, one split jaw, traces of epidermis on the boards).
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