Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825

Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990, Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624, Bacstrom, Sigismond, Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795, Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622. Atalanta fugiens, Ripley, George, d. 1490? Ripley scroll · 1600 · 34 pictures

A hand-copied alchemical manuscript from the Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Getty Research Institute, made in Europe between 1500 and 1825 for practitioners of alchemy, Hermetism and Rosicrucian study. Brown pen-and-ink drawings show a corpse on a stepped stone sarcophagus with a small soul-figure flying toward banded clouds above, offering sequential figures, tomb architecture and sparse line shading.

Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795 · Alchemy · Hermetism · Freemasonry · Freemasons · Occultism · Rosicrucians

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