The Ripley Scroll - The Symbolic Manuscript of Esoteric Alchemy from Hermes

by George Ripley

The Ripley Scroll
By George Ripley

The Ripley Scroll is an important 15th century work of emblematic symbolism. Twenty one copies are known, dating from the early 16th century to the mid-17th. There are two different forms of the symbolism, with 17 manuscripts of the main version, and 4 manuscripts of the variant form. There are very wide variations in the English text on the different manuscripts, and for the text here I have modernised and unified a number of versions.

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Genres: Spirituality

13 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1570

About the author

Sir George Ripley (ca. 1415–1490) was an English Augustinian canon, author, and alchemist.

Reviews

[Owlseyes]

"You must make Water of the Earth, and Earth of the Air, and Air of the Fire, and Fire of the Earth.
The Black Sea. The Black Luna. The Black Sol."





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The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame.

[Jude Gholeh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super interesting yet hard to understand, I get the base concepts with red white and black being,rubedo,albedo,and negrado and how they all have a part in the creation of the philosophers stone

[Lulu · Rating 5 out of 5]

late 15th (1470s-1480s most likely?)

There are approximately 23 copies of the Ripley Scroll in existence. The scrolls range in size, colour, and detail but are all variations on a lost 15th-century original.



• London, British Library, Add MS 5025 (Alchemical scrolls), Four scrolls are drawn in Lubeck 1588.
• London, Science Museum, A21950, 18th century.
• London, Welcome Institute, 692 & 693, two scrolls 16th century.
• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 276, 16th century.
• ref. also a version of Ripley Scrowle by James Standysh, 16th century, British Library, Add MS
32621.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodi Rolls 1 | Alchemical Roll
• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ash. Rolls 40 l
Alchemical Roll
• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ash. Rolls 52 |
Alchemical Roll
• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ash. Rolls 53 l
Alchemical Roll
• HM 30313. The Huntington Library. Second half of 16th (c. 1550s?) https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/co...

[rkosurvivor]

"If you seek the secrets of philosophy in dung, you will lose the expense, the effort, as
well as time and labor."