In the original dust jacket. Red cloth binding with gilt title and design on the spine and front board.

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As Thomas Hofmeier, researcher of alchemy and one of the authors of the manuscript monograph, deftly put it: “The Splendor Solis is the summa summarum of alchemy as manifested at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Modern Era … the pinnacle of alchemical expertise.”

The most beautiful and lavishly painted copy of the treatise is the British Library manuscript, Harley 3469. Its fully illustrated monographic study by Jörg Völlnagel, Thomas Hofmeier, Joscelyn Godwin and Peter Kidd examines the story behind the manuscript and its place within the field of alchemy. It features an English translation of the original text, and reproduces and provides commentary on its 22 allegorical paintings.