Practica faciendi aurum et argentum

Elixiris mercurii in suo vase amalgamatio cum corpore. P. 1 Quoniam omnia elementa a composito possint se / parari et iterum coniungi... 27 per hanc sublimationem factus sit aer / deinde fit sol. cum ignis factus sit.

Late 16th century

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 28 pp. 4to. 201/2 x 14 cm. Modern vellum binding. Piece cut from lower margin of p. 19/20.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1936.

Probably extracted from a larger MS. volume. See Note to MS. No. 109 [Bacon].

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).