Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.

Collection of receipts for chemical and alchemical processes, for the production of artificial metals and gems, medical remedies, etc.: translated from Hindustani. Written on blue paper: all except the first section have an impressed stamp lettered '1846 S.B.F.' Illustrated by a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. Dated 1848 on the recto of the last leaf.

1848

6 sections. fol. 33x211/2 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1920.

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).