Pot-Pourri (alchimique)
- Date:
- 1786
- Reference:
- MS.3955
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
On p. 1 is an 'Alphabet caballistique' and a pen-drawn 'Symbole Hermétique': on p. 62 two pen-drawings of Sigils showing the 'Nom de la matière philosophique et son caractère'. Contents: (1) [Anon.] Magnésie très propre pour la Médecine animale et pour les oeuvres particuliers du règne minéral (pp. 2-9). (2) - Recettes générales de plusieurs médecines (pp. 10-15). These are in Latin. (3) - De l'intention chimique, en l'invention et ordre des douze signes du Zodiaque (pp. 16-21). (4) Salmon (W.) Matière dont les philosophes disent que leur pierre se fait (pp. 22-24). An extract from the preface of the author's 'Bibliothèque des Philosophes'. (5) Grosparmy (N. de). De l'oeuvre minérale. De l'oeuvre végétale. De l'oeuvre animale (pp. 24-42). (6) Miscellaneous medical receipts: in French (pp. 59-62). (7) Traduction du latin de pp. 10 et seq. (pp. 62-66). The end is wanting. On p. 59 'Faite le 18 8bre 1786': the MS. was probably begun some years earlier.
Publication/Creation
1786
Physical description
1 volume 50 [66] pp. 4to. 211/2 × 17 cm. Unbound. Pp. 43-58, and all after p. 66 wanting.
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
- 68449G