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Does anyone have any idea what this illustrated tubular object should represent ?
It doesn't look like an alchemical device to me.
![[Image: strange01.png]](https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mwille2/VMS/strange01.png)
Beinecke Digital Collections, Mellon MS 16, Johannes de Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German, p. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , ca. 1475
It might be an attempt to draw this kind of distillation jar, but the person didn't know how to draw transparent arms going back into the bottom bulb:
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Edit [addition]: Here's another example courtesy of the Wellcome site with a short top-neck and it is drawn without an attempt at transparency:
![[Image: default.jpg]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0011825.jpg/full/880%2C/0/default.jpg)
It's called a pelican glass and I can see why. The way the "neck" curves down is like the many religious drawings of the pelican piercing its own breast to feed its chicks. They didn't know what a pelican looked like. They never drew it with a fat bill, it was usually drawn more like a regular songbird with a long neck or like a small crane.
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