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Barbarossa, Christoph · 1617

§ Either here or nowhere. §
A large, ornate decorative woodcut initial E is filled with intricate scrolling vines, leaves, and floral patterns.
Illuminations on the Reformation
of the whole wide world, by F. C. R. from his
Chemical Wedding, and otherwise improved with many other
testimonies of the philosophers, especially in the appendix,
in such a way that both the matter and preparation of the golden stone
are shown therein clearly enough.
All things are hidden in the mystery of the world.
The honest path, however, is exact.
O how blissful I consider the cross,
That blooms with power beneath the rose.