Recueil de secrets éprouvés de Philosophie Hermétique pour la transmutation des métaux imparfaits en or et argent fins et parfaits, traduit de l'italien par Caspar Gautier

Illustrated with pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. in red and black on pp. 80, 81, 140, and in black on pp. 135, 143. Pp. 148-158 contain an 'Addition de secrets rares de médecine', the rest of the volume consists of alchemical receipts and processes. Written by the same hand as MSS. No. 4165, 4166 [Recueil].

mid-18th century

1 volume 1 l. + 159 pp. 8vo. 18 × 121/2 cm. Modern boards. Title within ornamental borders in red and black: headings in red.

Purchased 1936.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).