H., G. C.

Diary of an alchemist, containing details of experiments, processes, etc.: from 22 June, 1714 to 19 June 1715; and in greater detail from 10 March 1724 to 10 January 1727. Mainly in German, but with some passages in cypher. Inserted about the middle of the volume is a calendar in German, printed in red and black, for 1724 (8 ll.), the blank spaces written over. There are some entries by a different, but contemporary hand.

1714-27

1 volume 424 ll. (first & last bl.). 4to. 191/2 × 16 cm. Original calf binding, stamped G.C.H. on the upper cover. Some leaves are written on the rectos only, and a few are blank.

Purchased 1930.

MS. 3757 [Paracelsus], and some of the notes at the end of MS. 1764 [Compendium] are written by the same hand as that of most of the present volume.

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).

Armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus, S.R.I., Comes de Chorinsky [1729-1792] pasted inside the upper cover.