Vaso della sublimatione del solpho [Vessel for the sublimation of sulphur]

Name:

Jabir ibn Hayyan,

Date:

[not after 1544]

Identifier:

540.1 B726 1562 P.133

Subject:

Earthenware or Glassware; Sublimation; Cucurbit; Furnaces (Stove, Oven); Alembic

Form/Genre:

Woodcuts

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Outside border text, from left to right: "Longitudo dierum in dextera eius et in sini-stra divitiae et gloria." [On [his] right, length of days; On [his] left riches and glory.] This woodcut also appears on p. 73 of the Venice 1544 edition of La Espositione di Geber... (Smith 540.1 B726 1544); Print

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)