Hoods and Cones

Bell-shaped hoods, a tall cylinder and a steep cone with handles, laid out like a catalogue of parts.

Work: Ymage de Vie, traictant des secrez des philosophes sur la fleur d'alkemie (Wellcome MS 446)
Artist / creator: Unknown French scribes; text attributed to Raymond Lull
Origin & date: France, 15th century; French and Latin
Held by: Wellcome Collection, London (MS 446)

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The story

A page of separate parts, drawn in ink and grey wash: a bell-shaped hood, a tall open cylinder, a steep cone with two loop handles and a smaller cone below it, one with a short pipe coming off its side. Nothing is assembled. It reads like a parts list for the furnaces on the following leaves. The Wellcome describes its fifteenth-century Ymage de Vie as holding several full-page drawings of furnaces and apparatus besides the many small ones in its margins. This is the page where the scribe stops explaining and shows the hardware on its own, each piece set out with space around it so a coppersmith could copy it.

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