Alchemy: 18th cent.
- Date:
- c. 1750
- Reference:
- MS.875
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Alchemist's note-book of extracts from alchemical authors, with notes and comments: in Latin and French. Illustrated with pen drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc.: inside the upper cover a full-page circular diagram of the Macrocosm-Microcosm. Ff. 46 et seq. contain 'Procédé de Paul Stein ou Steiner'. Ff. 67-73. 'Traite de Nicolas de Valois [etc.].' The MS. can be dated approximately by the reference to the 'Thermomètre de Réaumur' [1683-1757], on fol. 59.
Publication/Creation
c. 1750
Physical description
1 volume 87 ll. 8vo. 15 x 91/2 cm. Original red morocco binding: spine slightly defective.
Acquisition note
Purchased 1933.
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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Accession number
- 66091