Salomon Trismosin
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| - | '''''Splendor Solis''''' ("The Splendour of the [[Sun]]") is a well-known colorful [[alchemy|alchemical]] [[manuscript]]. The earliest version, written in [[Central German]], is dated and is housed at the [[Prussian State Museum]] in [[Berlin]]. It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a [[book of hours]], beautifully painted and heightened with gold. The later copies in [[London]], [[Kassel]], [[Paris]] and [[Nuremberg]] are equally fine. In all twenty copies exist worldwide. | + | '''Salomon Trismosin''', a magician born around [[1490]] in [[Germany]]. |
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| - | The original of ''Splendor Solis'' which contained seven chapters appeared in [[Augsburg]]. In miniatures the works of [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Hans Holbein]] and [[Lucas Cranach]] were used. The author of the manuscript was considered to be a legendary [[Salomon Trismosin]], allegedly the teacher of [[Paracelsus]]. The work itself consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven [[laboratory flask|flask]]s, each associated with one of the planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red [[tincture]]. Although the style of the ''Splendor Solis'' illuminations suggest an earlier date, they are quite clearly of the [[16th century]]. | + | |
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Salomon Trismosin, a magician born around 1490 in Germany.
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