Kassel quarto Ms. Chem. 81. Preparation of the philosophers' stone

This work shows the preparation of the philosophers' stone through a series of pictures. It is a manuscript created in 1600 by Wilhelm Vernuken (c. 1540 - died Kassel, 1607).
Vernunken was a Cologne sculptor and master builder from the second half of the 16th century, employed at one time by the Landgrave Moritz of Hesse, in whose collection in Kassel the manuscript resides.
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[@SimonEkendahl]

These emblems with descriptions are quite useful. I thank you for that!

[@EliwazMoonites]

The old chandaliers in notredam cathedral are very strange in that not only are they in the shap of a rose but as well have a crown at there top just like the spendor solis plates have what is more there in its middle is a sphere with a spear comeing from its middle to a spears point. You always see someone holding a sphere that has a cross atop it so could it mean the dried blood was within one of them maybe. The shape as awhole looks like an alchemests flask even the chains are there with the peacock on the spendor solis plate.