Miraculum mundi, sive, Plena perfectaque descriptio admirabilis naturae, ac proprietatis potentissimi subiecti : ab antiquis menstruum universale sive mercurius philosophorum dicti : quo vegetabilia, animalia & mineralia facillime in saluberrima medicamenta & imperfecta metalla in permanentia ac perfecta transmutari possunt
A Latin alchemical treatise by Johann Rudolf Glauber on the "universal menstruum" or mercury of the philosophers, printed in Amsterdam by Joannes Janssonius in 1653 for physicians and practitioners of chemical medicine. The plates indexed here are printers' ornaments rather than diagrams: small woodcut tailpieces built from scrolled arabesques, dotted strapwork and foliate drops, some worn and ink-clogged, useful as section breaks, triangular text terminators, or textures for period-accurate typographic layout.
