Miscellanea Alchemica XI

Collection of alchemical tracts, notes, and extracts, etc.: in French. Written mostly by the same hand throughout. In the following list of contents, the titles are mostly those found in the 'Table des matières'. The date for the death of Sendivogius (No. 35) is later than that usually given; he is generally stated to have died in 1646, though some authorities say 1636. On the recto of the first leaf is written 'Sciences occultes'.

c. 1685

1 volume 3 ll. + 544 pp. + 2 ll. folio. 26 × 17 cm. Original calf binding worn, spine damaged. Pp. 49-64, 115/116, 189-194, 317/318, 359-390, 545-560? are wanting: the last entry in the index is p. 559. Margins slightly cropped in binding.

Purchased 1908.

Images of verses on the philosophers stone and "dissolvant radical venu d'Angleterre" are held by Wellcome Images at L40258-L40260

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).