Just in case you have to type unusual characters such as a v with a diaeresis, allow me to recommend Junicode, a "font family especially for medieval scholars, but containing an extensive enough selection of Unicode characters to be widely useful".
"A medieval town isn't complete without an apothecary or alchemist. They are masters of their art, have deep knowledge of the plants, fungi, insects of the nature that surrounds them. They extract their curative and magical properties to make potions and philters, to cure wounds, diseases and affections. They are also able to prepare brews for more nefarious purposes, though they are very secretive about this."
Page from the Czech edition of the Rosarium Philosophorum illustrated by Jaroš Griemiller, c. 1578
This illustrated alchemistic manuscript was written by Jaroš Griemiller z Trebska in 1578. It demonstrates the high level of alchemy that existed in Bohemia even before the transfer of the court of the emperor Rudolf II to Prague. It is a Czech translation of the medieval alchemic tract 'Rosarium philosophorum', made by Jaroš Griemiller, who was probably a relative of the country hallmark officer Pavel Griemiller z Trebska (+ 1593). He seemed to be inspired by his friend, the astronomer and alchemist Bavor ml. Rodovský z Hustiran (c. 1526-1592). His work was dedicated to a great benefactor of alchemic research, Vilém z Rožmberka (1535-1592). This Griemiller's autograph is rich in decoration and it has a representative golden leather binding. As such, it could be a volume made directly for the Rožmberk library.
The ornamentation of the book is interesting not only thanks to the original alchemic iconography, but also thanks to its high artistic value that was not common for all alchemic manuscripts. A greater part of the 23 illustrations were probably created by one of the Rožmberk court painters, while Griemiller himself made perhaps only a few of them. From the iconographic point of view, the most distinct works are two miniatures on ff. 183v-184r. On the left side, there is a naked man with wings, standing on the moon and blowing a trumpet: he is raising the sun and the moon - which he has beheaded earlier with an axe - from the dead. It is an alchemic symbol of killing and resuscitation of the substance of the Great Work. On the opposite side, a naked queen is standing on two knolls from which two streamlets are running, while on the right side the sun has risen in the sky and on the left side the moon. This is an alchemic symbol of the two fundamental roots. The queen is holding burning torches and from her head a tree is growing with both arriving and departing birds that symbolize the central axis of alchemic art.
"In many traditions the liver was considered to be the "seat of the soul", and it is linked to the eyes. This is also the case with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It would be safe to say we have all heard the saying "the eyes are the window to the soul". The question then is why the liver? How is it connected to the eyes?"
"The alchemical laboratory was the birthplace of modern science. Before their institutionalisation, chymical laboratories were mostly provisional and multifunctional in nature. The international symposium "Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Legacies", which took place in Vienna and Oberstockstall in February 2020, dealt with alchemical show experiments at court, material legacies of chymical practice and everyday life in laboratories from an interdisciplinary perspective. The early modern alchemical laboratory is tangible through both textual and material legacies, which points to its central importance among practitioners, scholars and the nobility. For example, the laboratory of Oberstockstall (Lower Austria), together with aristocratic correspondence and alchemical medals from the coin collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, illuminates the cultural resonance of the chymical practices of that era. These relics reveal not only the technical aspects of alchemy, but also its role as an exclusive form of entertainment for social elites." (Machine Translation)
Andrew Bell was an eccentric Scottish engraver best known for co-founding the Encyclopædia Britannica with Colin Macfarquhar. Stories abound regarding this colourful gentleman and it’s said that, despite his small stature (4 feet 6 inches), he deliberately rode the tallest horse in Edinburgh - requiring a ladder to dismount.
"Rasāyana (the way of the rasas) is the overarching Sanskrit term employed in South Asian texts for “alchemy.” The classical alchemical scriptures date from no earlier than the 10th century CE; however, several centuries earlier, the term rasāyana was used in Āyurveda, classical Indian medicine, to denote “rejuvenation therapy,” with the plural, rasāyanas, being the elixirs employed in said therapy. In about the 8th century CE, the term rasa-rasāyana first appeared in Buddhist and Hindu tantric texts in reference to the supernatural power (siddhi) of obtaining a magical elixir."
"Antimony: Possibly from Greek ἀντί + μόνος (anti + monos), approximately meaning "opposed to solitude", as believed never to exist in pure form, or ἀντί + μοναχός (anti + monachos) for "monk-killer" (in French folk etymology, anti-moine "monk's bane"), because many early alchemists were monks, and antimony is poisonous. This may also be derived from the Pharaonic (ancient Egyptian), Antos Ammon (expression), which could be translated as "bloom of the god Ammo"."
"Nitrogen: Former name azote (French), from Greek ἄζωτος (azōtos) "lifeless" but possibly inspired by azoth, one of the alchemical names of mercury, from Andalusian Arabic al-zuq, the Classical Arabic name of that element."
"Lead was mentioned in the Book of Exodus. Alchemists believed that lead was the oldest metal and associated the element with Saturn."
