The BPH Collection also has an extraordinary example of applied alchemical art ­– that is, three 17th-century oak panels painted with emblems from Atalanta fugiens, though the textual elements (the motto and epigram) are left out.[2]Two of the panels contain pairs of emblems, respectively: emblems L and I (hereafter Panel 1); and emblems XLII and IX (Panel 2). The third one features three emblems: XXV-XXVI-XXVII (Panel 3). One of these panels, the only one to have been framed (at a later date), though obviously belonging to the same series, was part of the collection of Princess Christina of the Netherlands, which was auctioned in 1996. An interesting added feature in these three panels with emblems from Atalanta fugiens suggests that the patron who commissioned them wished to stress the element of alchemical transformation. In this sense they offer an intriguing yet enigmatic example of contemporary artistic interpretation and reception of one of the most celebrated alchemical emblem books of all times.

https://embassyofthefreemind.com/nl/coll...ta-fugiens

"In this week’s blog, postgraduate student Thomas Murrie shares with us some of the findings from his dissertation, the focus of which was on one of the Library’s manuscripts – the ‘Alchimiae Tractatus’ (ms38176)."


https://special-collections.wp.st-andrew...h-century/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFHHB938vc

https://artvee.com/dl/the-alchemist/

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"Shannon Grimes, professor and head of the Department of Religious and Ethical Studies, just published her first book, Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt. It’s the first book in a series on Greco-Egyptian alchemy. Her book offers a new perspective on early alchemy and its origins.

“I’m very interested in religious views of the natural world,” said Grimes. “My expertise is in religion in the Greco-Roman world, so alchemy, which emerged during this period and combines religion and chemistry, is something that intrigued me.”


https://www.meredith.edu/news/grimes-div...irst-book/

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produc...0473407759

"Living the Long Life: Physical and Spiritual Health in Two Early Paracelsian Tracts"

Tom Willard

https://www.academia.edu/1075498/_Living...an_Tracts_

Apparently Open Source.

https://archive.org/details/english-para...ns-alchemy

by Julian Paulus.

Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy

 


E-Book ISBN: 9789004503380 Publisher: Brill Print Publication Date: 25 Nov 2021

Some free material.

https://brill.com/display/book/978900450...anguage=en

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article...13/?page=1

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"This article discusses a Latin manuscript that can be found in the Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) archives in Mechelen (Malines), Belgium. The manuscript bears no author and no title, and begins with the words 'Exterior homo', hence being referred by this provisional title in the analysis. Ecclesiastical prosecutors investigating Van Helmont for heresy in 1634 considered that it was written by him, but this was vehemently denied by the Flemish physician."

Hedesan, full text.

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC4103403

"Cuneiform texts with technical procedures for making colored glass, perfumes, dyeing wool, tanning leather, and metal patination, constitute among the earliest known textual records in the history of chemistry."

https://alchemeast.eu/cuneiform-texts/