Divers procédés rélatifs aux arts

The MS. consists of a collection, written by various hands, of notes and receipts, in medicine, chemistry, cookery, etc.: also household and technical receipts: it is illustrated by some rough pen and pencil drawings of apparatus.

c. 1825

1 volume 2 ll. + 40 pp. + 110 pp. + 43 pp. + 94 pp. + 23 ll. + 67 pp. 4to. 20 x 151/2 cm. Original boards. Written on sheets of various sizes, some folded over, and divided into five parts. 23 unnumbered leaves are inserted between p. 32 and p. 33 of Part 4.

Purchased 1909.

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).