Dr Kat and the Ripley Scroll

Massive thanks to Ross Edmonds for suggesting the Ripley Scroll to me in the YouTube comments. We're looking at the surviving (known) versions of this document and what it can tell us about the way our ancestors lived and how they understood their world.

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Images:
From the various extant versions of the Ripley scroll:
Type A, 'Hermes Trismegistus design':
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley Roll 1 (mid-15th century)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 276 (16th century)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole Roll 54 (mid-16th century)
San Marino (CA), Huntington Library, MS HM 30313 (2nd half of the 16th century)
New Haven (CT), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, Mellon MS 41 (?c. 1570; late 16th century)
Princeton (NJ), Princeton University Library, MS 93 (late 16th century)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 52 (late 16th century)
London, British Library, Add MS 32621 (16th century)
London, Wellcome Institute, MS 692 (late 17th century)
London, Wellcome Institute, MS 693 (c. 1600)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole Roll 40 (17th century)
Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians [s.n.] (c. 1600)
London, British Library, Add MS 5025 (2) (late 16th-early 17th century)
London, British Library, Add MS 5025 (4) (late 16th-early 17th century)
London, British Library, Sloane MS 2523B (16th century)
Los Angeles (CA), Getty Centre, MS 95003 (undated)
The Sotheby Scroll (olim Dyson Perrins), sold December 2000 to a private buyer, untraced (undated)
Type B, 'Reclining Monks Design':
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole Roll 53 (c. 1600)
London, British Library, Add MS 5025 (1) (late 16th-early 17th century)
London, British Library, Sloane MS 2524A (olim MS 2632) (16th century)
Type C, 'Rose or Rosicrucian Design':
London, British Library, Add MS 5025 (3) (late 16th-early 17th century)

Website links for images, information and consultation:

ODNB entry on George Ripley: https://doi-org.ezproxy2.londonlibrar...

https://www.compendiumnaturalis.net/t...

Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh: https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/riple...

https://artsandculture.google.com/sto...

British Library Catalogue entry, with digitised copy: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisp...