Miscellanea Alchemica II

Collection of short treatises and extracts on alchemy, etc.: in Latin and Italian. A few small marginal pen drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. On the first leaf is the signature of Saturnus à Canalibus in a contemporary hand. Above, in a later 17th century hand, 'Clarissima signora Elena Bonariz (?) figlia del Signor Franco'.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 11 ll.(last 4 b1.). +pp. 43-324. 8vo. 19 x 13 cm. Unbound. Pp.1-42, 135/6, 201/2 are wanting: first leaf slightly defective.

Purchased 1908.

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).