Historical Context

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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (1998) "The main 'alchemical' resonance is supposed to be the 'balneological' section, but here I find no parallels with alchemical manuscripts, except in a very general way. If this was an alchemical work one would expect to find some other alchemical manuscript with similar drawings - but I do not know of one."

I think the problem with Adam McLean's analysis is that he relies too much on making a 1:1 comparison with "classical" alchemical symbolism. In my opinion the parallels are more abstract and therefore not so easy to assign.  The VMS is (and remains) unique. The imagery in the balneological section is no exception.