Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

[bi3mw]

In this short video, which does not offer much in terms of content, the following statement is made (0:50):

A theory links the manuscript to German alchemist Hieronymus Reusner and his work "Pandora".

Link to Digitalsat:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

A direct connection to Reusner's work is not possible, as it was not published until 1588. The only reference to the theory mentioned can be found on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Adam D. Morris does not appear to have published anything himself, or has someone else more luck in a search than I have?

Alchemy expert Adam McLean has also studied Reusner’s Pandora, and concludes that it is the coloured drawings in The University of Basel, MS L IV 1, UB (entitled ‘Alchemistisches Manuscript’) that were very probably “the original for the woodcuts in Reusner’s ‘Pandora’, rather than their being directly derived from an early manuscript of the ‘Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit’.”

However, I find the similarities in the illustrations between German MS 1 and L IV 1 very remarkable. Most of them are; here is one example:
   

John Rylands Library, Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, Alchemica (German MS 1), 15th century
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Alchemistische Sammlung, L IV 1,1550
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

So here we have motifs that appear continuously from the 15th century to 1588. The origin is the “Book of the Holy Trinity.” If one wants to establish a connection with the VMS, then one would have to refer to this manuscript and not to Reusner's Pandora.