Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16115

    Impression of a seal

    Date
    25 July 1677
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p337
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 329mm
    width (page): 230mm
    Subject
    Description
    Stamped impression of a seal in a letter from Georges du Mesnillet, 'Patriarch of Antioch', to Robert Boyle. Du Mesnillet was the leader of the 'Asterism', a secret society of alchemical masters into which Boyle was to be inducted (see The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, ed. by Hunter et al., vol. 4, p. 445).
    Transcription
    just like the one that Felicity saw
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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