Manuscrit renfermant sept (neuf) traités sur le Grand Oeuvre

Though the general title states that there are seven separate works, there are in fact nine, each with separate pagination. The last work has been extracted from a larger treatise is shown by the pagination. Contents:

c. 1750

1 volume 2 ll. + 55 pp. + 2 ll. + 61 pp. + 1 bl. l. + 1 l. + 14 pp. + 58 pp. + 1 bl. l. + 42 pp. + 2 ll. + 57 pp. + 1 l. + 16 pp. + 1 l. + 18 pp. + pp. 446-495 + 1 bl. l. 8vo. 16 1/2 × 10 1/2 cm. Original calf binding. The end of the last tract is missing. Margins slightly cropped in binding. Title of the first work, and heading to the text written in red.

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 33.

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).

From the Julius Kohn Library, with a few MS. notes by him.