Python (Mercurius as three-headed dragon), from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium, vol.1, ca.1760

Python (Mercurius as three-headed dragon), from

unknown, Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium, Manuscript ed., Yale University, ca. 1760.
[Bibtex]

@Book{mellonms110,
  Title                    = {Alchemical and rosicrucian compendium},
  Author                   = {unknown},
  Publisher                = {Yale University},
  Year                     = {ca. 1760},
  Edition                  = {Manuscript},
  Note                     = {More images can be found at http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3441291
Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler.
Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds.
With additions in German and Dutch.
Bound in 2 volumes.
Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew.
Mellon MS 28, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.},

  File                     = {Selected pages:mellonms110.pdf:PDF},
  Keywords                 = {manuscript,alchemy,illumination},
  Owner                    = {trismegisto},
  Timestamp                = {2015.09.27},
  Url                      = {http://orbexpress.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=11085414}
}

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