Re: VMs: Has anyone seen this facsimile ? (Tranchedino)

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And while browsing I found this:
> http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/geheimschriften/impressum.shtml
> Look at the list of literature! I'm going to do some more library digging.

Petr

Thanks for posting this - illustrations of some things I have wanted to see 
for a long
time. The thieves cant is particularly interesting - evidence that the King 
Tut idea
was actually used at the relevant time.

> I'm reading the commentary about the "Gratheus" (Cod.Vind. 2372), the
> medieval alchemist manuscript in old Dutch. I'll try to keep you informed
> about any interesting observations.

And thanks for this.

I can't understand the text properly, but some good pictures. Presumably the 
disc
hatched in a spiral pattern represents the sun, which represents gold in 
alchemical symbolism.
I don't think we have previously had any explanation of this symbol in a 
really old book.

Philip Neal

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