{"id":9082,"date":"2011-03-15T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2012-10-23T03:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:01:00","slug":"splendor-solis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/15\/splendor-solis\/","title":{"rendered":"Splendor Solis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermetics.org\/solis.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/splendor1.jpg\" alt=\"splendor1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Venus: The Peacock&#8217;s Tail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Tarot-like illustrations to the <em>Splendor Solis<\/em>, a 16th-century alchemical manuscript, have fascinated me for years, ever since I saw them reproduced in the pages of <em>Man, Myth &amp; Magic<\/em>. Despite their familiarity, the copies online are less than satisfactory, mostly poor scans from books with inconsistent colours. Given the amount of original alchemical documents being made available by the world&#8217;s libraries it&#8217;s only a matter of time until a decent set of reproductions turn up. Until then there&#8217;s a complete set of the plates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermetics.org\/solis.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> with details about the book and links to further information. As usual, if anyone finds better copies\u2014preferably from a copy of the original text\u2014please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermetics.org\/solis.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/splendor2.jpg\" alt=\"splendor2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Black Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermetics.org\/solis.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/splendor3.jpg\" alt=\"splendor3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hermaphrodite with Egg.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/28\/amphitheatrum-sapientiae-aeternae\/\">Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/18\/cabala-speculum-artis-et-naturae-in-alchymia\/\">Cabala, Speculum Artis Et Naturae In Alchymia<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/01\/digital-alchemy\/\">Digital alchemy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus: The Peacock&#8217;s Tail. The Tarot-like illustrations to the Splendor Solis, a 16th-century alchemical manuscript, have fascinated me for years, ever since I saw them reproduced in the pages of Man, Myth &amp; Magic. Despite their familiarity, the copies online are less than satisfactory, mostly poor scans from books with inconsistent colours. Given the amount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/03\/15\/splendor-solis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Splendor Solis&#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":[2,42,16],"tags":[559,643,444,4190,552],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-occult","tag-alchemy","tag-androgyny","tag-peacocks","tag-splendor-solis","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","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=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}