Miracle naturel

Miracle naturel. [In French]. XVIIth century.
1. Miracle naturel ou le grand mistere des misteres de la nature dans lequel on voit la pierre magicochimique composée et perfectionnée selon les vrais ecrits des vrais philosophes choisis hermetiques ce qui compose la medicine universelle.
[22 full page drawings in watercolour and 3 in pencil and grey wash by Honoratius Marinier, whose portrait and that of his wife form one of the plates 'autographe de Marinier c.1790'.]
[Drawing of seventh key from Basil Valentine.]
f2 'Voici la vraye perfection. que je te montre dans cette Figure. Sous l'Embleme du Roi et de la Reine.'
[Figure of hermaphrodite from 'Rosarium Philosophorum' series (figure 17).]
[Series of 23 full page watercoloured symbolic figures. With text in French.]
f48r (p54) [Portraits of Honoratus Marinier and Christian Leniau his wife. Above is seen Hermes with caduceus. The portraits are set upon a plinth which has the following text inscribed 'Josepho Filio meo charissimo do. Dico supra delineatas Figuras Hermeticas, quibus facile intelliges magnum opus magisterii si timeas Deum, et semper orando, ac laborando. ne sis garrulus; sed pone ori tuo custodiam; sacramentum Regis abscondere bonum est. Precipuè a magnatibus; propter gloriam Dei Jesu Christi et libertatem tuam pretiosissimam vale et vive'.]
[Sections of text in French entitled 'Explication pratique' (with some phrases in Latin) is interspersed throughout these figures commenting upon the symbolism contained within them.]
2. f49-54 (p55-66) Miraculum naturale seu, Mysterium Enucleatum mysteriorum naturae, veris dictis hermeticis philosophorum electis, quibus recte ac perfecte, componi perficique poterit magicae-chemice lapis, seu medicina universalis.
[Text in Latin.]

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