Blue Chimera with a Winged Creature in a Distilling Vessel

The chimera is depicted with a humanoid blue head, a blue torso, and pale, furry animal-like legs. It has large, reddish-orange wings and a thick, long blue tail that trails from its body into a ceramic-style vessel at the right. The figure grips a sword pointing downward in its right hand and holds a feathered arrow in its left. Inside the white vessel, which is surrounded by bright red and orange flames, lies a collapsed, dark blue creature resembling a bird or draconic form, suggesting a stage of alchemical dissolution or putrefaction (nigredo).

This illumination is from the 'Aurora consurgens', an important 15th-century alchemical treatise attributed to Pseudo-Aquinas, illustrating the symbolic processes of the Great Work. The imagery reflects the Gnostic and Hermetic traditions of transformation through death and re-emergence.