Magistri Ioannis Isaaci Hollandi ... Opera mineralia, sive de lapide philosophico philosophico, omnia duobus libris comprehensa : nunquam antehac edita, ac nunc primum ex optimis manu-scriptis Teutonicis exemplaribus fidelissime in Latinum sermonem translata ...
Opera mineralia is a 1600 Latin alchemical treatise by Johann Isaak Holland, printed by Richardus Schilders and translated from German manuscripts for scholars of the philosophers' stone. Its pictures are small black-line woodcut diagrams of alchemical vessels, such as a round flask on a tapering base with a neck and handle, set beside lines of Latin type and an ornamental head mask with foliage; a designer might borrow their compact, schematic line drawing and the way plain apparatus shapes sit against dense text.
