Brungan, Johann von

Alchemical receipts, extracts and processes in German, with some receipts for artificial gems, etc.: in Latin and French, including also three in Italian at the end. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. in the margins. On the first leaf: 'In nomine Domini. Johannes Sacri Romani Imperii Comes de Brungen. Anno 1727 2 Januarii'.

1727

1 volume 1 l. + 178 pp. folio. 291/2 x 20 cm. Original quarter-calf and vellum binding, damaged. Text within red rules, some headings in red.

Purchased 1925.

Inscribed at the top of the first leaf, and struck through: 'Ex Bibl[iotheca] Borz'. This may perhaps be Georg Heinrich Borz [1714-1799] professor of mathematics at Leipzig University.

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).