Flamel, Nicolas (1330-1418)

  • Flamel, Nicolas, 1330-1418
Date:
1802
Reference:
MS.2383
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Trésors des trésors: ou la science de la transmutation des métaux enseignée par Nicolas Flamel à son neveu en 1414, mise en bon françois sans commentaires ni altération du texte ... par moi N[icol]as Ch[arl]es Mathieu. Illustrated with rough pen-drawn symbolic figures, some partly coloured. This MS. appears to be a variant version of MS. No. 2381 'Trésor des trésors': it contains additional symbolic figures, and the text is longer.

Publication/Creation

1802

Physical description

1 volume 14 ll. + 2 bl. ll. 4to. 191/2 × 15 cm. Unbound.

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Acquisition note

Purchased 1909.

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).

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  • 22491