09/09/2025
✨ Splendor Solis (1582, Harley 3469) – British Library
The most beautiful alchemical treatise ever created
✳️ This study edition is devoted to the Splendor Solis (1582, Harley 3469), preserved at the British Library 📚. It brings together all the original miniatures — 22 full-page illustrations with their many nuances — accompanied by expert commentary that reveals every detail of this masterpiece of alchemy.
✳️ The authors, renowned specialists Jörg Völlnagel, Thomas Hofmeier, Peter Kidd, and Joscelyn Godwin, unveil the cryptic secrets of its iconography, its origins and provenance, while offering a deep analysis of each image and of the mysteries contained in this extraordinary codex.
🗣 According to Jörg Völlnagel, art historian and researcher at the Staatliche Museen in Berlin:
“The Splendor Solis is not at all a laboratory book. Rather, it conveys the philosophy of alchemy, according to which the man (the alchemist) lives and acts in harmony with nature, respecting divine creation while at the same time intervening in its processes of development, contributing through alchemy to its growth.”
ℹ️ Info: https://www.moleiro.com/en/art-books/splendor-solis-1
🎥 Video: https://youtu.be/cLl4XsZztyc
👉 https://www.moleiro.com/en/art-books/splendor-solis-1Splendor Solis (1582) The most beautiful treatise on alchemy ever created.This book on the most beaut...
