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 · 61 pictures

A group of handwritten European alchemical manuscripts, dating from about 1500 to 1825 and assembled by the occult writer Manly Palmer Hall, now at the Getty Research Institute and originally copied for practitioners of alchemy and Hermetic study. Numbered sequences show a round sealed flask holding fire, cloud banks, falling gold droplets and a descending bird, drawn in ink with pale washes under scrolled banner captions.

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

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