Miscellanea Alchemica III

Collection of alchemical and other tracts and extracts, with a few medical and household receipts: mainly in Latin, but with a few entries in French. Illustrated with a few roughly drawn alchemical signs and sigils. Contents: (Inside upper cover) Retour de Paris à Bourdeux. Leaf A Chemin de Bourdeaux à Paris. Tables of stages. Av Medicinal weights (in french). B. Reciepts for Hippocras (in French).

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 2 ll. (A, B.). + 109pp. + pp. 200-299. + 1 l. 8vo. 15 x 9 1/2 cm. Original gilt stamped calf binding. The pagination is complete and the numeration 110-199 has been dropped.

Purchased at Sotheby's 15/6/1908, Lot 37.

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).

Written inside the lower cover are some memoranda on debts in French dated 1668. Phillips MS. No. 2263