Alchemy 16th cent.

Fragment of a collection of alchemical receipts and processes: Illustrated by crude marginal water-colour drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. The receipts are numbered from [52] to 94, both of which entries are incomplete; the numeration of the receipts appears to be irregular.

Middle 16th century

1 volume 24 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 16 cm. Unbound. Beginning and end wanting.

Purchased 1931.

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).