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Splendor Solis. Treaty of Alchemy
Chemistry and Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Science.
The Templars and the Philosophers’ Stone.
© In the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ms. All.113Sixteenth Century.
Size: 30 x 21 cm
One hundred parchment pages illuminated in gold and silver.
A total of 22 elaborate full-page miniatures, framed by decorative borders comprising botanical and architectural motifs, in the manner of the most ornately-rendered Books of Hours.
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