A collection of 243 manuscripts detailing the arts of Alchemy, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and Masonry, gathered by Manly Palmer Hall, author and researcher in the realms of mysticism and the occult.


https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030...tire_text/

"The minister, physician, natural philosopher and would-be alchemical adept Johann Moriaen was born in Nürnberg in the latter half of 1591 or shortly thereafter. His father Frans was almost certainly a Dutch Calvinist exile of modest but comfortable means, and Johann grew up in the tight-knit society-within-a-society of the refugees, who were aliens both by nationality and religion."

Author: John T. Young
Source: Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle (Aldershot: 1998).
Published online: January 2007



https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/.../OTHE00058

Martina Zamparo.

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"By considering the characters of Marina (Pericles; Prince of Tyre) and Helen (All’s Well That Ends Well), this essay investigates the two women’s relation to the healing arts
and to nature in the light of coeval alchemical and Paracelsian doctrines."


https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_...view/18256

Katalog der alchemischen Handschriften der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg

Detailed descriptions of the alchemical manuscripts at the State and University Library Hamburg. - Written between 1990 and 1995.


https://www.academia.edu/40809057/Katalo...ek_Hamburg

Not specifically alchemical but perhaps of interest. Full Text.

"Facing growing contemporary crises, many scholars turn to ancient eastern religions and goddess civilizations as a means of culture root-seeking."

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1519

"Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly is performed in a starkly empty black box theater at 59E59. A spare set piece, a ship’s mast, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Ship of Fools, is perched in one corner. The set piece, like the performance itself, is handmade and vigorously detailed. It looks like a close up or a cut out from the 15th century painting. As one can surmise from the play’s title, the performance takes much of its inspiration from the art and music of the Middle Ages. The enthusiastically crafted scenarios, all performer created, with costumes, puppets, and set designed by the Happenstance ensemble, are partly homages to specific artworks from the late medieval and early Renaissance period. Specifically, they were inspired by works by Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as illuminated alchemical and medical texts from the same period. With music, dance, puppets, miming, and physical comedy, and using minimal language, the performers recreate symbols and scenarios from these late medieval masterworks."

https://observer.com/2023/12/adrift-a-me...awberries/

The Imagination of Alchemy: A Chinese Response to Catholicism in Late Ming and Early Qing 

"As a common cultural phenomenon in China and the West, alchemy not only embodies the scientific spirit of people before modern times, but also contains certain religious beliefs, and even creates unrealistic secular imaginations. When Catholicism entered China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Chinese also projected this imagination of alchemy onto the missionaries."

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https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1521

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https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/...manuscript

   

Plato in Medieval England: Pagan, Scientist, Alchemist, Theologian

Jayne Sears

"From the time of the Roman Republic, continental Europeans traveling to England brought knowledge of Greek and Roman intellectual culture in the form of books of every genre. But, until 1111 CE, the island contained not a single Platonic dialogue. And for the next two centuries, it had only a partial Latin translation of the Timaeus. A Latin Phaedo eventually appeared, in 1340, and the Meno in 1423. But this hardly limited the number of ideas people had about Plato. He was a proto-Christian, a sage, a scholar of the cosmos, and a healer. And he had an elaborate oeuvre that did exist in England, works of astrology, numerology, medicine, and science, including Cado, Theobrodus, Calf, Circle, Herbal, Question, Alchemy, and Book of Prophecies of a Greek King. This book tells the story of Plato in Medieval England, from a name with too few works to a sage with too many."


https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Medieval-En...2503601081

"Dear Sir,

I am requested by the Council of the ⸻ Association to return to you the draft of a paper on The Truth of Alchemy, which you have been good enough to offer to read at our forthcoming meeting, and to inform you that the Council do not see their way to including it in the programme.

I am,

Yours faithfully,

— Secretary."



Text:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Ghos..._the_Runes

Librivox:
https://librivox.org/search?title=Castin...m=advanced