De chemia senioris antiquissimi philosophi, libellus, ut brevis, ita artem discentibus, et exercentibus, utilissimus, et vere aureus, nunc primum in lucem aeditus
This is a 1560 Latin alchemical treatise attributed to Ibn-Umail, printed in Europe and assembled in the library of C.G. Jung, intended for students and practitioners of the chemical art. The three pictures are woodcut style: a bearded sage holding an open book of symbols, a heraldic bookplate with an angel and grapevines, and a nude bearded figure with a bow and a banner reading Christus. A designer could draw on the sixteenth-century woodcut vocabulary of emblems, banners and symbolic figures.
