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Alchemy: 18th cent.
- Date
- 1782
- Reference
- MS.879
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Description
Collection of ten full-page water-colour drawings, with MS. Latin descriptions in red, of alchemical apparatus, furnaces, etc. The date is found on the illustration of a mortar on the verso of the third leaf from the end.
Publication/Creation
1782
Physical description
1 volume 11 ll. folio. 35 x 24 cm. Original paper covers. Six of the illustrations have laminated parts.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1935.
Ownership note
On the first leaf is pasted the armorial book-plate of Christo[pher] Froschmayr E[dler] v[on] Scheibenhof.
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).
Location of duplicates
This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.
Languages
- Latin
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores