Philosophiae chymicae IV vetustissima scripta : Tabula chymica
This 1605 alchemical treatise, the Tabula chymica attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and the Arab alchemist Ibn-Umail, was printed by Johannes Saur for scholars and students of chymistry. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts: a bearded, hooded sage seated within a circular diagram of planetary symbols, a decorative capital, a framed vignette of a traveller on a road beside a walled town, and a cornucopia-style ornament, which a designer might borrow for compact emblem-like framing and symbolic ornament.
