1. Add MS 5025
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5025
- Title:
- Alchemical rolls (The Ripley Scrolls)
- Scope & Content:
- This is one of the twenty-one so-called Ripley Scrolls, a scroll that contains alchemical illustrations and a series of poems of the ‘Verses upon the Elixer’ that was produced for English owners from the fifteenth until the seventeenth centuries. The Ripley Scroll takes its name name from George...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-Early 17th century
- Extent:
- Four paper rolls, framed in four parts
