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London, Wellcome Institute MS. 800. 1l+6f+40ff+31f+1l. Winandus de Ruffo Clipeo [and others]. Doctrina Illuminans: danz ist das Leicht aller Lichter, oder die Lehr ...
Illustrated with 19 water-colour symbolic drawings (folios 25-34).
A series of 19 flasks, not very well drawn. Beginning from an initial flask with two layers green above gold, and proceeding through green, clear, aflask with a little scens of earth and trees, a white bird flying from a layer of white intothe darkness of the upper part of the flask, a flask mottled with red blue, brown and black, Then follows and entirely black flask, a black flask with a red vapour with flowers growing out of the neck, a dark flask with a naked man inside, a dark grey flask with a winged lion or dragon breathing fire, which in the next flask rears up as if trying to leave through the neck of the flask and reveals a skeleton at the bottom of the flask. The next flask number 13 shows us a naked man in a brown flask, in the next a black crow in a black flask, then a white bird in a greyish-black flask, which leads on to a dog or fox leaping in a grey flask. Then we have a mottled red, brown and black flask, which clears to a translucent green with a king in a red robe, and then to another mottled red, brown and black flask this time with flowers growing out of the neck, which becomes in the final figure a translucent reddish brown with a knight in armour standing upon a vitriol symbol and holding a rod.
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