Splendor Solis: A Four Week Online Class on Alchemy and The Image, with Alchemist and Artist Brian Cotnoir, Beginning January 24
from $125.00
4-week online class
Wednesdays, January 24, 31, February  7, 14.
7-9 pm Eastern (NYC) time
$145 ($125 for $5/a month and above Patreon members)


Splendor Solis, 1530-35, attributed to Salomon Trismosin, is the most magnificent alchemical illuminated manuscript that depicts the Great Work, i.e., the making of the Philosopher’s Stone in 22 enigmatic images.
Over four evenings, we will open and unpack each of the seven treatises and the 22 images and do an initial review and interpretation of both the text and the individual image and how they relate to each other as they elucidate an actual 16th-century alchemical practice. We’ll also consider the larger structure of the work, that is, how the images are shaped and grouped as a whole.
Each class will have time for Q&A and further discussion.


https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/sp...january-24

"The Green Book is concerned with plant alchemy, how to practically confect spagyrical Tinctures, Elixirs, the true Primum Ens, Plant Magisteries and the Quintessence. Also covered are the Plant Stone of Hollandus, the Plant Phoenix, the Quintessence of Blood and the Homunculus. It constitutes a complete programme of practical works from the occult laboratory of a modern day spagyricist.

Recipes and methods of working are given, and compared with those of Jean Dubuis, Mary Anne Atwood, Frater Albertus, Joseph Lisiewski, Van Helmont, Crollius, John French, Hollandus, Sibly and others, to indicate a path for the seeker to pursue in their own practic. The inclusion of copious folk magical receipts and sympathetic cures (including the rare weapon salve), in addition to the elixirs, tinctures, essences et cetera, make this volume a veritable treasure, showing both the philosophical theories and folk magical influences that informed his guide Paracelsus."


https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Rising-Gr...B077XGMP1L

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