Arcana arcanissima, hoc est, Hieroglyphica aegyptio-graeca : vulgo necdum cognita, ad demonstrandam falsorum apud antiquos deorum, dearum, heroum, animantium, & institutorum pro sacris receptorum, originem, ex vno Aegyptiorum artificio, quod aureu animi et corporis medicamentum peregit, deductam, vnde tot poëtarum allegoriae, scriptorum narrationes fabulosae et per totam encyclopaediam errores sparsi clarissima veritatis luce manifestantur, suaeq[ue] tribui singula restituuntur, sex libris exposita

Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622 · 1614 · [S.l. : s.n.] · 13 pictures

Michael Maier's Latin treatise of 1614, published without imprint, argues that Egyptian and Greek myth encodes alchemical practice, written for learned readers of hermetic and classical scholarship. The plates here are woodcut initial letters, each set in a square frame of scrolling vines, buds and hatched leaves, printed with inked-over edges and broken lines; useful as drop caps, ornament tiles or border fragments.

Alchemy

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