Introduction here:

https://www.hab.de/en/in-depth-catalogui...f-alchemy/


On-line portal to alchemical texts here:

http://alchemie.hab.de/

Håkansson, Håkan, Univ. Of Lund

Full text.

https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/...402822.pdf

V. Karpenko.

"An attempt is made to analyze both, the alchemy as a science, and its state in the High European Renaissance. In the first part of the paper the history of alchemy is described in short, from its supposed Hellenistic origin through Arabic world to Latin Europe."

Full text.

http://www.chemicke-listy.cz/ojs3/index..../view/2653

Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity

"The appearance of alchemical commentaries between the first and the fourth century CE provides us with an opportunity to study a striking example of innovation
in ancient Greek scholarship. Contextualizing the alchemical commentaries of Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 CE)—the oldest extant alchemical author—can help
us understand how this form of scholarship came to be considered worth studying and copying by ancient scholars, i.e. by professionals of paideia."

https://escholarship.org/content/qt2ks0g...f?t=ppwaz3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_della_Vecchia

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From the Metropolitan, New York.

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Unknown artist - circle of Teniers.

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"Stećak is the official name for approximately 70,000 mysterious medieval tombstones scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border areas of Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. To understand the meaning of the many symbols of alchemy and theurgy on the stećak tombstones, a researcher of medieval religions must relate to a world in which spirituality and Hermetic philosophy play a central role."

https://amerdardagan.wordpress.com/2017/...osophorum/

Dozens of academic dictionaries online at:

https://en-academic.com/

including a dictionary of Latin abbreviations:

https://abbr_lat.en-academic.com/

"Alchemy is a science that lives from its secrets and cultivates them in image and writing. Hermaphrodites, phoenixes, lions, eagles, ravens, kings and queens populate the dreamlike worldscapes of the alchemical imagery. An overview of the significance of the portraits of great alchemists."

https://www.aurorapharma.com/en/alchemist-portraet/