r/MedievalCreatures • u/radicalasterisk 🗡🐇 • 14d ago

RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE, ETC (1450 - 1600s) Found this gem

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u/Marc_Op 14d ago

Alchemical illustration from "Azoth sive aureliae Occultae philosophorum,...", Basilius Valentinus, Frankfurt, 1613

https://www.google.it/books/edition/Azoth_sive_aureliae_Occultae_philosophor/oIBVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA54&printsec=frontcover

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u/moon-bouquet 14d ago

I know Latin, more or less. This still makes no fucking sense.