Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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Here is another tree in an alchemical context (?):
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Ashburnham 1166, Miscellany of Alchemy, folio 16r, ca. 1470


Adam as prima materia, pierced by the arrow of Mercurius.
   

I think I have also seen this illustration in another alchemical manuscript but I can't remember where.

edit: No, it was not the same motive. It can be seen in a late work (1579).

Glasgow University Library, MS. Ferguson 6, Rosary of the Philosophers
   
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