Manuale vade mecum
- Date:
- c. 1730
- Reference:
- MS.3418
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
A collection of extracts and notes from alchemical Authors: in Latin and German. On fol. 20 is a pen-drawn symbolic 'Naturae Speculum'.
Publication/Creation
c. 1730
Physical description
1 volume [205 ff.]. obl. 8vo. 15 1/2 × 20 cm. Original vellum binding, from a leaf of a 15th cent. German legal [?] document. Some leaves have been torn out at the end, and a few margins have been repaired. There is an original pagination from 1 to 205 and from 232 to 278, with 62 ll. unpaginated, but it is very irregular: a foliation in pencil has now been added.
Acquisition note
Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 19 (part).
Ownership note
From the Julius Kohn Library.
Finding aids
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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Accession number
- 68062