SPLENDOR SOLIS: the Most Iconic Work on Alchemy Ever | English Edition | Luxury Art Book on the Illuminated Manuscript: Cloth Bound Hardcover, Dust-jacket, Full-colour, Page-marker | 9.5x15 in |

Jörg Völlnagel; Thomas Hofmeier; Peter Kidd

ISBN 10: 8496400662 / ISBN 13: 9788496400665

Published by M. Moleiro Editor S.A.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SPLENDOR SOLIS: the Most Iconic Work on Alchemy Ever | English Edition | Luxury Art Book on the Illuminated Manuscript: Cloth Bound Hardcover, Dust-jacket, Full-colour, Page-marker | 9.5x15 in |
• Publisher: M. Moleiro Editor S.A.
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 8496400662
• ISBN 13: 9788496400665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This is the Study Book that accompanies the Moleiro limited edition exact reproduction of the Splendor Solis' Medieval illuminated manuscript sold at $8,300.

The Splendor Solis codex dated 1582 and housed in the British Library, London, is the most beautiful treatise on Alchemy ever made. The imagination and lyricism of its truly marvellous illustrations are awe-inspiring even to those not familiar with this subject. This sumptuously illustrated treatise has been traditionally, although wrongly, attributed to Salomon Trismosin, possibly a pen name of Ulrich Poysel, the master of the legendary Paracelsus. The secrets of kabbalah, astrology and alchemic symbolism are revealed on 22 folios bearing full-page illustrations with a wealth of colour and almost Baroque profusion of detail.

This manuscript features 22 large paintings surrounded by floral or animal motifs belonging to the North-European style of Renaissance miniature. Like the context and the contents of book itself, all the illustrations are impenetrable and difficult to understand. Particularly noteworthy are the now famous Glaskolben or glass flasks depicted in a lavish painting in the centre, surrounded by typical town and country scenes of late medieval Germany beneath a celestial image of a pagan god that seems to endow the image as a whole with unity and meaning.