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Original fileAurora consurgens zurich 055 f-27r-55 city
The figure is depicted wearing a blue robe and a pink turban, rendered in a late medieval European illumination style. He stands on a patch of green grass between a fenced garden area to the left and a stone castle-like structure with a red roof to the right. A small gold crown rests on the ground near the fence. The background is a flat, muted pink, and the entire scene is enclosed within a thin gold frame.
This image is a folio from the 'Aurora consurgens', a 15th-century alchemical treatise attributed to Thomas Aquinas but often containing excerpts from the works of the 10th-century Arab alchemist Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi, known in the West as Senior Zadith. The inclusion of the key and the crown are symbolic markers of the 'Great Work' or the attainment of the Philosopher's Stone.
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Aurora consurgens
This is a manuscript illumination originating from a copy of this 15th-century alchemical text.
Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi
The figure is an iconographic representation of the alchemist ibn Umail, commonly featured in the tradition of Senior Zadith.
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illumination
parchment
Gothic
European
manuscript-illumination
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1062 × 1070 px
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