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Our specialist introduces the Ripley Scroll, a truly magical 17th-century alchemical treatise with a ‘rich and detailed mix of cryptic verse, legend and image’. #ChristiesClassicWeek
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The Ripley Scroll was a manuscript named after George Ripley (c. 1415–1490), the most renowned of the 15th-century alchemists.
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‘Up to the 18th century, alchemy was viewed as a proper scientific discipline, regarded perfectly seriously,’ says Kay Sutton, our Director of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in London.
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The Ripley Scroll, an illustrated alchemical manuscript, in English and Latin, on vellum, England, 1624. Estimate: £200,000–300,000.
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Valuable Books and Manuscripts – 13 December at Christie’s London.
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