Brief, A Treatise or hipothesis of one Booke called Speculum Universi or Universall Mirror

The MS. ends `And thus committing the rest to the industrie of the speculator, I abruptlye conclude this analitical abstract, untill the publication of the volume itself, wherein all thease and manye more secretts quantum fas est, will not onely positivelie be delivered, but demo[n]strablye concluded and more largelye handeled and subjicible to every mans capacitie'. This MS. is written in a neat Secretary hand, apparently of the early 17th or late 16th century. It is to be noted that the earliest use of the word' `subjicible' in the N.E.D. is given as 1638. The subject of the work is the Theory of Alchemy, and it seems to have some affinity with the ideas of Robert Fludd [1574-1637].

c. 1600

1 volume 12 ll. (last 2 bl.). folio 311/2 x 201/2 cm. unbound.

Purchased 1931.

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).