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 · 12 pictures

A German-language alchemical manuscript from the Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825, held by the Getty Research Institute and gathering texts attributed to Jakob Böhme, Sigismond Bacstrom and Cagliostro for private occult and Rosicrucian study. Pages are close-ruled brown-ink cursive broken by hand-coloured emblems: a gilt rainbow over grey clouds, an eight-pointed star, zodiac and planetary signs, marginal scripture references.

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

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