The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

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Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. The Mutus Liber — “Mute Book” — is a work of few words. Most appear on its first plate, where we are told that the book’s author, “Altus”, has created “hieroglyphic figures” to illustrate the “hermetic philosophy”. Arnauld de la Chevalrie, was generally careful to only cite authorities from before the Flamels’ time, but a single reference to the sixteenth-century German alchemist Lambspring slipped in. )Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing. Scroll through the whole page to download all images before printing.

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