The Ripley Scroll
The Ripley Scroll is an important 15th century work of emblematicsymbolism. 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.
This is not a properly researched edition, but a rew orking of the text into a modern readable form. I add the engravings of the Scroll printed in David Beuther, Universal und Particularia... Hamburg, 1718.
You must make Water of the Earth, and Earth of the Air, and Air of the Fire, and Fire of the Earth.