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London, Wellcome Institute MS. 2492. 1 folio + 165 pages. 320x200mm 18th Century [c. 1735] Gemma Sapientiae et Prudentiae. [In German throughout].
[Illustrated with 5 full-page coloured and illuminated symbolic drawings, four of which are from the Geheime Figuren, and a smaller illustration of the 'Sigillum Sielentium Arts', showing two double-headed eagles.]
[The text is a remarkable mixture of transcendental alchemy, Cabbalistic speculations, and religious controversies. It ends with a chapter on Biblical prophecies and the Apocalypse.]
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