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Mundus elementaris [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.3
Published
[Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis, 1618]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At upper right: In praefationem secundam Basilicae Chymicae.
Engraved illustration removed from Johann Daniel Mylius' "Opus medico-chymicum: Continens tres Tractatus sive Basilicas: Quorum prior inscribitur Basilica Medica. Secundus Basilica Chymica. Tertius Basilica Philosophica" (Frankfurt : Lucam Jennis, 1618).
Mounted as item 3 in an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 274 x 274 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Mystical diagram of the world, showing the four winds around a central circle labeled with the signs of the zodaic, months, planets, etc., assigned to their respective elements.
Classification
Department