Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.

Collection of chemical and alchemical receipts, including 'Fabers 112 receipts'. Compiler's holograph MS. Inserted are 12 ll. in smaller format (15½x9½ cm.), containing translations of Hindustani chemical receipts, etc. (incomplete). The 'Faber' mentioned above is Pierre Jean Fabre, the French 17th cent. physician and alchemist [ -1650]. The '112 receipts' begin after the fourteenth leaf.

c.1850.

75 ll.+10 bl. ll. 8vo. 18x111/2 cm. Original limp calf binding.

Purchased 1920.

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).