Mutus liber, in quo tamen tota philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur, ter optimo maximo Deo misericordi consecratus, solisque filiis artis dedicatus
Mutus liber is a wordless alchemical picture book printed in 1677 by Petrus Savoret in La Rochelle, attributed to Isaac Baulot and addressed to initiates of the art. Its engravings show the stages of the Hermetic work through allegorical figures, a central tower with a rising sun and moon above it, and winged figures in clouds, which a designer might take as an example of compact, emblem-like symbolic composition built from a few repeated motifs.
