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.

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).

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.