Miscellanea Alchemica I

Collection of 13 alchemical works and extracts: in Latin, with three items in Italian. Written by the same hand throughout. On p. 3 of the work by Pantheo is a pen-drawn 'Artis metallicae schema', which is repeated on p. 97. The tract by Müller is illustrated with pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus. Before the first leaf is a folding table of alchemical correspondences by Penotus. Contents:

c.1685

1 volume 225 ll. 4to. 21 1/2 × 16 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding. The lower half (blank?) of the index to the 'Dialogus' by B. G. Penotus has been torn away, and some leaves have been torn out at the end of the volume.

Purchased 1906.

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).