Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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...the tradition of the numerous works of the 17th century is difficult to trace. It seems that there is a gap to the earlier alchemical works (in Europe). It is not possible to explain it with the invention of the printing press, because this was of course much earlier.
I personally believe that there is a tradition, because nothing is created in "a vacuum".
The idea that the VMS on some folios or sections takes up alchemical themes that appear again in much later works I therefore consider quite acceptable. So there would have to be common templates.

I still keep trying to find closest examples in earlier alchemical works. It's really a problem that many potentially XV c. original works are lost and only found later, often in printed versions, in the XVI or XVII c., therefore they are often considered to be written by later authors under the names of older famous and mysterious alchemists . It concerns Ripley's, Basil Valentine's and a few others works, in which I'm really interested. I always was interested why not earlier, XII, XIII c. alchemists, but XV c. ones. Some mystery here.