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'Ripley Scroll'

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  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Languages: English, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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'Ripley Scroll' Emblematical scroll with alchemical images and texts (including DIMEV 2278, DIMEV 2623), attributed to George Ripley in the early modern period, but not by modern scholarship.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the cataloging notes.

    • “alchemy”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
    • “Alchemy”· in cataloging note

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9 membranes.; Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 8 digitized image(s); Fine miniatures (coloured drawings). Retouched in 16th century.; Parchment; Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. Rolls 1

15th century, middle—English, Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. Rolls 1
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: England
  • Record origin: Description adapted (Feb. 2023) from the following sources: Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 1018; Ian R. McCallum, 'Alchemical Scrolls Associated with George Ripley', in Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture, ed. Stanton J. Linden (Brooklyn, AMS Press, 2007), 161-188, cat. 1.
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