Manoscritto Francese di segreti mirabili se fossero veri

The MS. is paginated for 33 pages, after which it is foliated. The work consists of receipts and processes in alchemy, for making artificial gems and colours; with a few cosmetic and medical entries.

c.1600

1 volume 3 ll. + 33 pp. + 39 ff. 4to. 191/2 X 15 cm. Modern vellum binding. Ff. 41-67, 76-82, 85-106 are wanting: ff. 107-end are bound in reverse.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1932.

On the title, the name of the original Library owning the MS. has been erased.

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).