Ripley alchemical scroll - Prime matter as a toad putrefying in a vessel - Leonard Smethley, Princeton University Library, 1624

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Ripley alchemical scroll - Prime matter as a toad putrefying in a vessel - Leonard Smethley, Princeton University Library, 1624

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Prime matter is represented as a toad putrefying in a vessel. In miniature further alchemistical steps.

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1000 - 1500
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www.nature.com ARTS REVIEW 29 April 2020 Jennifer Rampling: Elixirs for times of plague and bullion shortage. Spectacular alchemical scrolls record ideas of flux in times of massive upheaval - medical, social, economic and political
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