{"id":5794,"date":"2009-08-01T02:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2009-08-01T02:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T01:59:44","slug":"digital-alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/01\/digital-alchemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daten.digitale-sammlungen.de\/~db\/ausgaben\/thumbnailseite.html?id=00028267&amp;seite=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/alchemy1.jpg\" alt=\"alchemy1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Methodus scientiarum by Girolamo Brisiani (1588).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A work-related search for lettering designs by calligrapher Johann Neud\u00f6rffer led me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-collections.de\/index.html?c=startseite&amp;l=en\" target=\"_blank\">Munich Digitisation Centre<\/a>, a site dealing with the digitisation and online publication of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library. The catalogue there holds a wealth of very old books and manuscripts which you can either view online or download as PDFs. Most of the works are in German or Latin but I still like to see the page designs even if I can&#8217;t read the text. Among their collection they have a large number of the classic works of alchemy. The texts of those are freely available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levity.com\/alchemy\/texts.html\" target=\"_blank\">various alchemy websites<\/a> but you rarely have the opportunity to examine in detail copies of the original publications. Lots of tasty wood engravings, vignettes and decorated borders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daten.digitale-sammlungen.de\/~db\/ausgaben\/thumbnailseite.html?id=00029479&amp;seite=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/alchemy2.jpg\" alt=\"alchemy2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Coelum Philosophorum Seu De Secretis naturae Liber by Philipp Ulsted (1528).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methodus scientiarum by Girolamo Brisiani (1588). A work-related search for lettering designs by calligrapher Johann Neud\u00f6rffer led me to the Munich Digitisation Centre, a site dealing with the digitisation and online publication of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library. The catalogue there holds a wealth of very old books and manuscripts which you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/01\/digital-alchemy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital alchemy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,16],"tags":[559,610],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-occult","tag-alchemy","tag-johann-neudorffer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}