Miscellanea Alchemica XXXVII

Collection of eight short alchemical works: in German. Fol. 75 Pen-drawing of a pentigram. Contents.

c.1625

1 volume 75 [76] ll. 4to. 19 x 15 1/2 cm. Original paper covers repaired. Two leaves at the end mutilated: first two leaves wormed.

Purchased 1930.

No. 4 This has also been ascribed to 'Uguictius' in Mrs Singer's Catalogue, No. 161. Cf. also Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. III, pp. 63, 64. 5 Ascribed to Rhazes by Ms Singer, op. cit., No. 120. Cf. also Thorndike, op. cit., Vol. III, pp. 61, 660, and his 'Catalogue of Incipits: Col. 256. With the exception of No. 2, all the above were first printed in 1598 at Rohrschach in Salomon Trismosin's 'Aureum vellus'. The last 5 leaves are probably by a different and slightly later hand.

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).

Armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus, S.R.I. Comes de Chorinsky. [1729-1792.]