Account of an alchemical roll on parchment, presented by the Earl of Cromarty in 1707 to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh / with notes by John Small, M.A.
This is an 1876 Edinburgh account by John Small, with notes on an alchemical parchment roll that the Earl of Cromarty gave to the Royal College of Physicians in 1707. The four pictures are engraved alchemical emblems: a tree with planetary and celestial symbols, winged serpents and dragons, a robed figure with a seven-roundel sphere, and a flame rising from a vessel. A designer could draw on their dense, hand-ruled line work, radiating sun and moon motifs, and layered symbolic panels.
