Atalanta running, that is, new chymicall emblems relating to the secrets of nature.Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622[1618 or after]Manuscript on paper of Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens, translated into English from the 1618 German edition.Binding: Recent binding of marbled paper boards, polished calf back, top edge cut and gilt, other edges plain and original.First two and last four leaves are of different, probably eighteenth-century, paper, probably binder's sheets used in an earlier binding of the volume.In English.Mellon MS 88, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.Script: Written by a single copyist in English secretary and italic hands.Watermarks: 1) Strasbourg lily with initials "WR" and countermarked "IHS" with a cross ascending from the horizontal of the central letter, very similar to Churchill 401 (dated 1625), but without initials on the countermark. 2) A large, crowned fleur-de-lys and with a countermark "VI," not identified.text