Alchemical Symbolism in the VMS

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In the Wellcome ms there's a typo: the Sun is mis-labelled "Mater", but it was Pater in the earlier Ashburnham 1166 ms.

Ashb. 1166 is full of spelling errors too. It's a collection of citations from famous books but what matters in this manuscript is obviously the lavish illustrations. Some of them, like the VMS-relevant ones, seem to be original (AFAIK), not copies of earlier models.

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Elixir autem philosophorum componitur ex tribus, scilicet lapide lunari, solari, & Mercuriali. In lunari existit sulphur album, in solari sulphur rubeum, & lapis Mercurii amplectitur vtranque naturam albam & rubeam, & hæc est fortitudo totius magisterii.

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Prima materia corporum non est Mercurius vulgi, sed est vapor unctuosus et humidus. Nam ex humido fit lapis mineralis, & ex unctuoso fit corpus metallicum. In talem namque vaporem unctuosum oportet ut corpora convertantur, et ...