"Albrecht shows how John Donne incorporated the corporeal images of medieval iconography into Lull's mnemotechnics in order to construct his own texts as another version of ars combinatoria, God's attributes being perceived as a series of ever-changing combinations. She argues that this Donnean phenomenon anticipates modern film practice, particularly montage. This thesis is illustrated by her reading of the sonnet beginning, "Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare." This difficult poem can now finally be understood, but only when readers take into consideration how Lullian abstractions combine with corporeal images to solve the riddle, its answer revealing Donne's ecumenical frame of mind, far more advanced than supposed."

The Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne

Roberta Albrecht

https://tinyurl.com/mpz6atm3

"Details of Adelard’s journey to and from the Near East are scarce, although scattered hints can be gleaned from his writings. We do not know where, or to what extent, he mastered Arabic, and the identity of his teachers largely remains a mystery. At one point, he tells us he ended up in the Crusader principality of Antioch, where he experienced a major earthquake that modern science has dated to November 29, 1114, about five years after Adelard first set out on his travels. He would later return home dressed in his adopted green cloak and turban and armed with such treasures as the geometric system of Euclid; detailed tables of the movements of the stars; a manual on the use of the astrolabe, a powerful computing device invented by the Greeks and perfected by the Arabs; and a book of alchemical recipes for tinting glass, dyeing leather, and performing other chemical processes."

https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/is...ve-amnesia

"For centuries, alchemists tirelessly sought to create a transparent material that was at the same time flexible, i.e. the ‘malleable glass’ of ancient times. The intensive work of our forefathers in alchemy was in fact not in vain, because it led to the transmutation, not of base metals into gold, but rather of a secret, hermetic, cryptic and often obscure field of activity into modern chemistry and polymer science, with all its astonishing contemporary success."

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Th...1c76c0ac72

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202...nts-151123

Secluded Alchemist - Laboratory Amongst The Leaves (Full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y68IKONHS_c

A good, brief, general article including musical ciphers:

https://www.audiocipher.com/post/types-of-ciphers

"Mystical items abounded: a miniature, leaden devil, said to have been cast out during an exorcism; magic mirrors for scrying; talismanic handbells inscribed with Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew to ring during alchemical rituals; the fabled Codex Gigas, or “Devil’s Bible,” sat among strange tomes holding spells and incantations to summon angels or wake the dead."

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/m...lect-call/

THE ALCHEMICAL PROCESS | Prayer of the Heart - Addendum 1 - extract

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g4z6c

"Clavis Artis stands out as a particularly mysterious work among the enigmatic texts of the alchemical tradition. Written in German and Latin, it is often attributed to the late 17th or early 18th century. The manuscript serves as both a practical guide and a philosophical treatise on alchemy, but what makes it truly remarkable is its rich collection of illustrations."

https://vaulteditions.com/blogs/news/cla...nd-alchemy

"In the vast landscape of human thought, two seemingly disparate realms—religion and science—have long vied for the hearts and minds of seekers of truth. Their dialogue is as old as civilization itself, rooted in humanity’s desire to transform chaos into order and the unknown into meaning. This essay explores the interplay between these domains by invoking two powerful archetypes: the blacksmith and the alchemist."

https://note.com/noctiskodaira/n/n00da1aac6bfc

"In a previous life as a historian of science and manuscript scholar, Type & Forme’s Dr Anke Timmermann realised that the holdings of alchemical manuscripts in Cambridge libraries would benefit from a thorough catalogue identifying both texts and images for future research – a new tool utilising bibliographical and scholarly research from the past century as well as Anke’s own insights into the usefulness of particular types of information on sources for historians of alchemy."

https://www.typeandforme.com/index.php/2...immermann/