Alchemy: 18th cent.

Epistolae alchemicae. Opus de lapide philosophico. Praeloquium. Tractatus Isaacci Hollandi. Followed by various medical, iatrochemical and alchemical receipts, and a long tract on the Powder of Sympathy. In Latin, French and Italian, with a few entries in Spanish. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. The first three works have not been identified, but they seem to have been written by a practising alchemist who was very widely read in the literature, and he gives copious quotations from many authors. Possibly written in an Italian hand. Produced in Kaschau [Kassa].

1741

1 volume 176 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 15 cm. Original limp vellum covers worn. Some margins and corners damaged, slight damp-stains.

Purchased 1961.

On the 47th leaf is an entry: 'Cascioviae nonis Februarii, 1741'. This place has not been positively identified, but it is probably Kaschau (formerly Kassa), now in Czecho-Slovakia, but in Hungary at the time the MS. was compiled.

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).