⚠The image is mirror-reversed, appearing to be ink bleed-through from the title page on the reverse side of the leaf. The text has been transcribed here in its intended reading orientation.

THE SUN WITHOUT CLOTHING, original: "SOL SINE VESTE". In the symbolic language of alchemy, the "Sun" is a common name for Gold. To present it "without clothing" means to strip the metal of its physical form to reveal its essential, "purple" core.

EXPERIMENTS original: "EXPERIMENTA"

That is:

A brief and

clear

account

of the destruction

breaking down

of Gold

Through

Ruby-Flux original: "Robin - Club". This is an archaic term for "Rubin-Fluss," a chemical preparation of gold used to tint glass a deep, ruby red.

Gold-Glass

Three Trials

Brought to light by a lover

of the [art]

. J. C. O . The initials refer to Johann Christian Orschall (ca. 1645–1691), a German metallurgist and chemist who sought to bridge the gap between alchemical theory and industrial chemistry.

Sun Without Clothing or Thirty Experiments to Extract the Purple from Gold