illustrations from an alchemical composite manuscript, lake constance region, c. 1593. the images above were copied from a 1550 printed edition of the "rosary of the philosophers".
source: Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S I 185, fol. 110r-121r
im was cleaning up the donation pile in the dorms because it just looked like a big pile of trash, and someone donated a cross shaped riding crop .... !