First published in 1652, this compilation of English alchemical literature was collected and annotated by Elias Ashmole. The book made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts, and features alchemical verse from Thomas Norton, George Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dastin, Abraham Andrews, Thomas Charnock, William Bloomefield, Edward Kelley, John Dee, Thomas Robinson, William Backhouse, John Gower, John Lydgate, W. Redman, as well as several unknown authors. Individual plates from the volume are digitized here, with additional item-level description available for select plates.
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“the entire philosophical industry consists in the preparation of the mercury of the sages, for it is all that we seek, and what the ancient sages have always sought; and we, no more than they, have done nothing without this mercury, prepared with the Sun or the Moon: For without these three there is nothing in the whole world capable of accomplishing the said philosophical and medicinal tincture . It is therefore essential that we learn to extract the living and spiritual seed from it.”
Nicolas Flamel
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