Valois, Nicolas

Hebdomas Hebdomadarum Kabalistarum, Magorum, Brachmanarum, antiquorumque omnium sapientum secreta mysteria continens. Illustrated by 37 full-page symbolic alchemical water-colour drawings. The legends are in Sanscrit, Chaldaean, Hebrew, Coptic, Greek, and Latin. According to the Paris bookseller Nourry: 'Dans un manuscrit alchimique du XVe siècle, on rapporte que Nicolas de Valois, de Caen en Normandie, est l'auteur de ce livre ... traitant de la Philosophie hermétique ... Il le dessina pour son fils, le Sieur d'Ecoville-Valois'.

mid-18th century

1 volume 54 ff. (last 9 bl.). 4to. 22 × 161/2 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Purchased 1932.

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).