Schlehan, Gottfried

Collection of medical receipts, with some alchemical receipts and extracts: in German. Compiler's holograph MS. Illustrated with six crude pen-drawing of sigils, etc. The title-page is: 'Nec fallo nec fallor Poss[ess]or est Gottofredus Schlehanus scripsit die 16 Jul[ii] 1766'. Ff. 23v, 24. Account of an alchemical 'Tinctura' said to have been made by Casper Landauer of Nüremberg in 1395, with a rough pen-drawing of his coat of arms. 25. Alchemical extract from the work of Michael Sendivogius [1566-1646]. 31v. Drawing of 'Amuleta contra pestem'. 55-57. Chemical and alchemical signs. 60-61. Music for the Viola.

1766

1 volume 2 ll. + 61 ll. folio. 311/2 × 201/2 cm. Original vellum binding. A foliation in pencil has been added.

Purchased 1930.

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).