Ripley (?), alchemical scroll (DS9610) (Q42834)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1844832x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1844832, mssHM 30313)
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Ripley (?), alchemical scroll (DS9610)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b1844832x, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1844832, mssHM 30313)

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    Ripley (?), alchemical scroll
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    Manuscripts (documents)--England--16th century
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    Scrolls (Information artifact)--England--16th century
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    Alchemy--Early works to 1800
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    second half of the 16th century
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    Extent: 1 roll (6 membranes) : parchment ; 3,247 x 392 mm
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    Parchment, roll of 6 membranes. 196 lines of verse.
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    Written in England in the second half of the sixteenth century. A number of other rolls with variations of this text and with similar illustrations were produced around the same period. Written in an italic script, badly rubbed in some areas.
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    Four large illustrations in ink and watercolor, ca. 760 mm. in height. In the first (process for the White Stone), Aristotle (?) holding a large retort within which are 8 circles containing monks looking at human figures in glass bottles, each bottle being linked by a chain to a circle containing 2 men holding a book. In the second picture (process for the Red Stone), a fountain supported by a...
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    Belonged to C. W. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958). Acquired by the Huntington Library from Sothebys, 9 December 1958, lot 42 with a plate of the upper part of the second picture, showing the fountain.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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