"Nuskas": alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi, with material on gems.

Date:
c.1850
Reference:
MS.3601
Part of:
Monckton, Edward Henry Cradock (1812-1878)
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Description

Book of Nuskas (alchemical and chemical receipts) translated from Hindustani. Receipts for making artificial gems. Compiler's holograph MS. The last section contains the receipts for artificial gems, beginning at the other end of the volume. Signature of Monckton inside lower cover.

Publication/Creation

c.1850.

Physical description

65 ll. 8vo. 18x111/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, damaged. Some leaves have been torn out.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1920.

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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  • 40340