Alchemy: 16th cent.

Collection of extracts from alchemical authors, alchemical processes, chemical and medical receipts, receipts for making artificial gems, etc.: Headings and many marginal notes in red, illustrated with numerous rough pen-drawings, mostly in red, of alchemical apparatus. The date 1506 is given at the end of a receipt for 'Vitriolum Romanum' on fol. 28v. Some of the marginal notes seem to be by a different and rather later 16th cent. hand. The first and last leaves are pasted down on the covers. On the second leaf is written 'Doct[oris] Anonimi'. Inside the upper cover 'No. 10. Johannes Keirast [?] Ma[gister?] P[harmaciae?]', in a 16th cent. hand.

c. 1510

1 volume 2 ll. + 145 ff. + 1 l. 4to. 211/2 x 16 cm. 16th cent. German stamped leather binding, the outer border roller-stamped, with a design of three repeated half-length figures lettered 'Carol', 'Ferdin', 'Andrea', the lower cover also lettered 'Register'.

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).