Alchemy 17th cent.

Collection of alchemical and chemical receipts in Italian and Latin. The index at the end seems to be by a later hand. This MS. is apparently a transcript of an older MS., as there is another foliation of 1-114, which ends on p. 331.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 4 bl. ll. + 368 pp. + 5 ll. + 13 bl. ll. + 20 ll. (last bl.) 16mo. 13 x 10 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1929.

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).