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Johann de Monte Raphaim frontispiece - Adam McLean - 12-06-2022
Hermes with a winged helmet and heels, holds a caduceus in his left hand and a key marked 'I close' in his right.
Attached to his left arm is a key marked 'I open'.
He stands upon a circle, around which is labelled the Animal, Vegetable, Mineral and Starry realms.
Inside the circumference is Materia Prima, Magnesia, Lapis and Chaos, and within this is a square with the four elements labelled each on one of the sides.
Within this is a triangle with Agens, Patiens and Quinta Essentia; at the vertices are salt, sulphur and mercury, and its edges are labelled on the outside - separation, dissolution and depuration, and on the inside - soul, spirit and body.
From Johann de Monte Raphaim, (probably a pseudonym), Vorbothe der am philosophischen Himmel hervor-brechenden Morgen-Röthe.
Hamburg: zu finden bey Samuel Heyl, 1716.
RE: Johann de Monte Raphaim frontispiece - Paul Ferguson - 12-06-2022
Article here by Alexander Kraft about who might have been lurking behind the Monte Raphaim pseudonym. He fingers Jacob Rösser.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328738474_Welcher_alchemistische_Schriftsteller_verbirgt_sich_hinter_dem_Pseudonym_Johann_de_Monte_Raphaim
Only in German unfortunately.
RE: Johann de Monte Raphaim frontispiece - Adam McLean - 12-09-2022
The figure of Mercury on the frontispiece to the Monte Raphaim would appear to have been inspired by the title page of :-
Hiebner, Israel, 1619-1668. Mysterium Sigillorum, Herbarum & Lapidum Oder Vollkom[m]ene Cur und Heilung aller Kranckheiten Schäden und Leibes- auch Gemüths-Beschwerungen durch unterschiedliche Mittel ohne Einnehmung der Artzney. - [Erfurt] : Birckner, 1651.