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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“Without this Water, by which the Bodies are made Spirits and reduced to their first Nature or Matter, our Stone is never amended, the White without the white Water and the Red without the red Water. Let the Red Stone be watered with Red Water, so that finally both by long Decoction or Cooking and by long Imbibition or continual Watering; it be made red like Blood Hyacinth, Scarlet, or Ruby, and glistening like Burning Coal, put in a dark place”
Bernard Trevisan
Verbum Dismissum
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