Michaelis Sendivogii Chymische Schrifften : darinnen gar deutlich von dem Ursprung, Bereitung und Vollendung des gebenedeyten Steins der Weisen gehandelt wird / Nebst einem kurtzen Vorbericht ans Liecht gestellet durch Friedrich Roth-Scholtzen, Siles.
This is a 1749 German alchemical treatise printed in Vienna by Johann Paul Krauss, collecting Michał Sędziwój's chymical writings edited by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz and related texts by Synesius and Basil Valentine for alchemists and students of the philosopher's stone. The pictures include a baroque cartouche ornament, a scrolling foliate border, a tabular page of German type listing the four elements with alchemical signs, and a title frontispiece with a small emblematic engraving at its centre. A designer could draw on the cartouche and foliate scrollwork for period ornament, and on the alchemical symbols for esoteric typography.
