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Members-only event Join the Friends of Princeton University Library (FPUL) and curator Jennifer Rampling, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University, for a private reception and viewing of the "Through A Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700" exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. Sunday, 15 May 2022 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. This event is for FPUL members only. To join FPUL, please visit here. Registration is required. Business attire. Light refreshments will be served. Our event will follow the University’s guidelines for...

Join Princeton University Library for an author talk featuring Jennifer Rampling, author of "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" and curator of the "Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700" exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend su...

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The Princeton University Library explores the allegorical language of alchemy in pre-modern Europe, with a focused look at the Ripley Scrolls

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 ...