If you have $239,239.96 to spare then you might like to invest in a copy of Domenico Beccafumi's La ricerca e lo sfruttamento dei metalli.

'The series begins with the gods observing the alchemist in his laboratory, proceeds via an initial meeting, to the gods alarm at possible capture and, perhaps, the intended use to be made of them and their properties, their capture and enchainment by the alchemist and, finally, the gods being lead to the anvil. The alchemist s assistant, most likely symbolic of Vulcan, does the work, while the alchemist in pensive mode, looks on as director, scholar and philosopher. The second group of five plates, while appearing to be simpler, at least in thematic terms, is made more complicated by having no clear pictorial conclusion.'


At Abebooks:
https://tinyurl.com/2s4jdd7j


   

I have not seen this manuscript before. It seems to be from the  18th century and incorporates alchemical imagery within a Freemasonic context.

Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt HStAD D 4 595/4


https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdoub...724ae4dcb2

   

Interview with Jennifer Rampling:

https://www.communitynews.org/towns/prin...8ea38.html

https://library.princeton.edu/alchemy

Full-text download on academia.edu:

https://www.academia.edu/5021522/Encyclo...nd_Alchemy

I have no idea about the legal status of this posting by Priscilla Martinelli.

Abstract: This paper defines the nature and extent of transmutation theory in the Greek alchemical corpus as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis, “the philosopher Synesius,” and “the philosopher Olympiodorus of Alexandria.” By transmutation theory, I understand all explicit attempts made by Greek alchemical writers to explain how one substance can be entirely transformed into another.

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc...NT/content

Aaron Kitch situates the Ripley scrolls in the context of English alchemy in the sixteenth century, especially the tradition of emblematic alchemy and John Dee’s efforts to establish George Ripley as England’s chief alchemical authority. He analyzes the pattern of imagery on the scrolls in relation to the ancient and early modern philosophy of generation, which focused on questions about sexual reproduction and the emergence of new matter in nature.

https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty...crolls.pdf

'On close examination Gabriele Ferrario discovered it was in fact a collection of alchemical recipes. What makes it special, compared to many other alchemical recipes in the Genizah, is that there are not only technical instructions but they reference in quite a lot of detail books of Arabic alchemical literature – works from the Jabirian corpus.' 

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme...e-ferrario

   

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.

With Google extracts:
https://tinyurl.com/27cfpffn

   

Can alchemy be described as a protoscience? Do ancient texts with obscure formulas and procedures describe mystic rituals and allegoric visions? Or do they record instructions to carry out real scientific experiments? In other words, can alchemy be considered the ancestor of chemistry?

A group of scholars at the University of Bologna comprising philologists, historians of science, and chemists has attempted to answer these questions. To do so, they not only revived and studied ancient alchemical texts in detail but also put the described procedures into practice in the laboratory. The results of this interdisciplinary work - developed within the AlchemEast ERC project awarded to Prof. Matteo Martelli, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies - have been published in the journal PNAS.


https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/958189

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123171119

I've just been reading about Arthur Machen. It's thought that this charming article about alchemy in Household Words first inspired his interest in esoterica at the tender age of 8:

https://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/v...e-135.html