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The Green Mysteries • Arcana Viridia
᛫ An Occult Herbarium ᛫
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Now shipping from Three Hands Press.
The Green Mysteries : Arcana Viridiea - An Occult Herbarium. 2023
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Authored by Daniel A. Schulke, The Green Mysteries is a comprehensive esoteric Herbal which provides an examination of a myriad of plants through folklore, chemistry, pharmacology, and ethnobotany. Available in Hardbound cloth and Softcover, printed entirely via offset lithography on custom paper stock, the book is 476 pages, and features over 300 original Vierling illustrations, including 12 full color plates. Typography and lay-out executed by Joseph Uccello. Special calligraphic text was created for the work by Gail Coppock.
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The hand-rendered artwork builds on the tradition of the great Herbals, which germinated in the Classical period and evolved through the late Middle Ages before blossoming in the Renaissance, as exemplified in different epochs by the works of Dioscorides, Leonard Fuchs, Rembert Dodoes, and John Gerard. Particular technical & aesthetic inspiration was provided by the german engravers of the 15th and 16th centuries, such as Barthel Beham, & Martin Schongauer. All images appearing in the book were created exclusively for the Green Mysteries, and whenever possible the individual plants were sketched and conceptualized from living specimens.
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The softcover edition of the Book is available broadly via online, & brick and mortar retailers.