Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.

Collection of chemical, alchemical, and other receipts, many dealing with the making of artificial gems and metals, etc.: translated mostly from Hindustani. Compiler's holograph MS. A piece is wanting from the lower outer corner of the first and last 5 leaves, with loss of text. The two parts are separate, but mostly on the same paper with a small impressed circular stamp lettered 'Fine Bath', but they may originally have been parts of different collections. The date 1850 appears on the second leaf of the first part.

1850

28 ll., 24 ll. 4 to. 25x19 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).