A Treatise on Chemistry and a Dispensatory

Written in Latin, and by the same hand throughout. The text is in minute writing, the headings in larger characters, the whole uncial and imitating print. The folios are numbered 1-153 in Vol. 1, fo. 1 so numbered being fo. 42 of the whole book. The pages of the chemical treatise and of the preliminary matter to the Dispensatory are not numbered. The numbering continues in Vol. 2 from 154 to 301, followed by many unnumbered folios. Interspersed amongst the numbered leaves are many others, slightly smaller, of paper of a different quality containing addenda by the same writer's hand. These interleaves are not numbered. There is no indication of the author's identity, nor is the work dated. It belongs to the seventeenth century. See MS.MSL.57.

17th Century

2 volumes, originally one. 12A, 216 folios, 12B, 231 folios. 12mo. 14.5 × 8 c.m. Modern binding.

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).