# The Ordinall of Alchymy by Thomas Norton [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Add. 10302\) ## Commentary The Ordinall of Alchymy by Thomas Norton c. 1477 Manuscript \(MS Add. 10302\) British Library, London This manuscript, the Ordinal of Alchemy, was written, in verse, by Thomas Norton, of Bristol. It contains the first five chapters of the work. The miniature on folio 37 depicts the preparation of alchemical experiments in which a master and two apprentices are engaged. The alchemist is seated at a table with bowl and scales; two kneeling apprentices are attending to the furnaces. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()