Source books · Alchemy
The Mirror of Alchemy
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Alchemy
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 3 languages.
Read it
- Read at gutenberg.org ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 21, 2026
- Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of May 11, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
From Wikipedia
The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language. Long ascribed to Roger Bacon (1214-1294), the work is more likely the product of an anonymous author who wrote between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries.
From the Wikipedia article The Mirror of Alchimy, revision 1375988320, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q17061505: “Alchemical manual ascribed to Roger Bacon”.
In this study
Cited for 4 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Albedo, Citrinitas, Nigredo and Rubedo.