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Please join the Student Friends of the Princeton University library for our third event of the semester, a tour of the Milberg Gallery's Spring Exhibit, "Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700," with exhibition curator Professor Jennifer Rampling. This exhibit centers around the development of alchemy and alchemical imagery up to its golden age and includes the two Ripley Alchemical Scrolls, the second of which is a new Princeton University Library acquisition. There are only 23 Ripley Scrolls in existence, and these were critical in sharing alchemical ...

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton University Library (PUL) will open its newest exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library, on April 6, 2022. "Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700" will show how European alchemists built on Greco-Egyptian, Islamic, and late medieval foundations to create a golden age of alchemy from the 15th century to the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Rich in color and symbolism, the exhibition will feature two alchemical “Ripley Scrolls,” named after the English alchemist George Ripley, which rank among the most s...