Colonne, François Marie Pompée (1644-1726) (& others)

The Seed of the Chemical Philosophers. To serve justly as an answer to the objections and observations of a Modern Author which has [sic] been made against the Great Art of Alchemy. ... By Monsr. Colonne. Mysteries and Secrets of the Cabala and Chemical Philosophers [etc.]. Holograph translation, and an original treatise, etc. by Charles William Hoyland [1807-1889]. Pp. 1-92. The Seed of the Chemical Philosophers; 1-193. Mysteries and Secrets of the Cabala; 193-205. Notes and extracts on Alchemy; 206-End. The Aesch-Mezareph or Purifying Fire. Translated, with an Index to the Hebrew words from 'Kabbala denudata' by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth [1636-1689], originally published in 1677-1684. No work by F. M. P. Colonne bearing this title is apparently recorded, though this treatise may be based on his 'Principes de la Nature' published in Paris in 1725. A printed address-slip, used as a book-mark, and now pasted in on p. 52 of the second pagination, contains the name of 'M. le Docteur Hoyland' and is headed 'Journal de Constantinople'.

c. 1850-1875

1 volume 92 pp. + 1 l. + 232 pp. + 11 ll. 4to. 231/2 x 19 cm. Original boards, damaged. Written in a ruled cash-line account-book.

Purchased 1931.

The three Hoyland MSS. Nos. 2950, 2951, 2952, contain holograph translations and extracts on alchemy and the cabbala and other occult subjects, and are by the same hand as the present MS., as also is MS. 2591 [Grasshoff].@$@The first work, by the script, seems to have been written considerably earlier than the rest of the MS.

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).

There are numerous additional notes, inserted scraps, etc. which are probably by the hand of Julius Kohn [ -1934], a collector of occult literature, many of whose MSS. and books are now in the Wellcome Library.