Viatorium spagyricum. Das ist ein gebenedeyter spagyrischer Wegweiser in den edlen Sonnengarten der Hesperidum zu kommen unnd daselbst den güldenen Tincturzweig dess Universals (sonsten Lapis philosophorum genandt) zu erlangen ...
Viatorium spagyricum is a 1625 German alchemical treatise by Herbrandt Jamsthaler, published by Lucas Jennis, offering a spagyric guide to the philosophers' stone for seekers of alchemical knowledge. Its copperplate-style emblematic engravings sit within ruled text frames, showing robed figures, a winged personification of nature, furnaces and vessels, and a rain-soaked woman with children in a landscape. A designer might draw on their dense symmetrical borders, allegorical staging, and laboratory apparatus as ornament or period reference.
