The images published are from the almost complete manuscript of the
Mushaf as-suwar, one of the oldest available manuscripts of perhaps the
first Greek alchemist, which contains a collection of 13 book written by
Zosimos of Panaoplois as a dialogue between the teacher Zosimos and this
student Theosobeia. Zosimos collected the teaching of past alchemists
and thus consolidated the knowledge of symbolic alchemy of his time.