Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum. Ita ut non tantum oculorum et animi recreationem suppeditet, sed et profundiorem rerum naturalium considerationem excitet, adhaec forma sua oblonga amicorum albo inservire queat
Viridarium chymicum is a 1624 alchemical emblem book by Daniel Stoltzius von Stoltzenberg, published in Frankfurt at the expense of Lucas Jennis for learned readers and friends. Its numbered copper engravings show alchemical operations as small framed scenes with Latin captions, each set against a plain background with a figure or vessel at its center. A designer could take from them the compact emblematic format, with a titled plate, a numbered corner tab and a centred composition of allegorical figures and laboratory apparatus.
