Darmstadt alchemical and Freemasonic manuscript

[Adam McLean]

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

   

[Adam McLean]

Here is another illustration from the Darmstadt manuscript. It clearly relates to the one I posted above.

   

[Paul Ferguson]

Coloured versions at:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek...PJMWUWQ4BB

Not much info in the description however.
I have asked some colleagues for further information.

‘Hermann’ is presumably the 4th Prince of Wied-Neuwied, 1814-1864.
The Profess-Stube (‘profession chamber’) would be where the oaths were sworn, though to what we can only surmise.