A Course of chimistry. Of chimicall principles.

By two different but contemporary hands. The 'Course of chimistry' is foliated 23-65, and is mostly in Englsih, and mainly written on the rectos only. The second work is chiefly concerned with iatro-chemical remedies.

late 17th cent.

1 volume 14 (22) ll. + ff. 23-65 + 43 ll. (last 5 bl.) + 6 ll.. 8vo. 18 x 111/2 cm. Original calf binding. 8 ll. have been cut out at the beginning. Five folding tables of chemical substances had been pasted down on stumps of cut-out leaves, two of these are now detached.

Purchased 1934.

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).