Notes on Digby's experiments

  • Digby, Sir Kenelm, 1603-1665.
Date:
1668
Reference:
MS.2124
Part of:
Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-1665)
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Collections des procédés de Chymie de feu Monsr. le Chevallier Digby, Chancellier de la Reyne de la Grande Bretagne Celons [sic] de sa propre main. Comme aussi de perfumes et autres curiosités. Illustrated with pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. on pp. 67, 80, 87, 168. The text is in French, English and Latin.

Publication/Creation

1668

Physical description

1 volume 2 ll. + 256 pp + 2 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 151/2 cm. Original calf binding. Margins slightly cropped.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1932.

Finding aids

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).

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Accession number

  • 75895