Rosary of the Philosophers (Book) AKA Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei
Rosary of the Philosophers
1550 AD
AKA Rosarium philosophorum sive pretiosissimum donum Dei
16th-century alchemical treatise
The 1550 print includes a series of 20 woodcuts with German-language captions, plus a title page showing a group of philosophers disputing about the production of the lapis philosophorum.
Several of the woodcut images have precedents in earlier (15th-century) German alchemical literature, especially in the Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (ca. 1410) which has the direct precedents of woodcuts 10, 17 and 19, allegorical of the complete hieros gamos, nrs. 10 and 17 in the form of the "Hermetic androgyne" and nr. 19 in terms of Christian iconography, showing Mary flanked by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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