Régistre contenant plusieurs secrets inconnus à beaucoup de personnes

Date:
1755
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MS.4181
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Régistre contenant plusieurs secrets inconnus à beaucoup de personnes. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On pp. 133 and 135 are rough pen-drawings of a furnace and an alembic. Dated 1755 on the first page. This MS. contains a remarkable collection of receipts and 'secrets' in medicine, alchemy and chemistry: it includes also a few magical processes, and receipts for varnishes and dyes, etc. The receipts on the last leaf of text are by a different hand.

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1755

Physical description

1 volume 172 pp. + 90 bl. ll. + 4 ll. folio. 28 × 18 cm. Original calf binding.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1936.

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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).

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  • 69690