Receipt-Book, Alchemical & Chemical, 17th century

Collection of receipts for chemical medicines, and for chemical and alchemical processes: in French. Many marginal and other notes by later hands, some in pencil. The date 1696 appears on the fly-leaf at the beginning, but the MS. was probably written somewhat earlier.

1696

1 volume 1 l. + 215 pp. + 4 ll. 8vo. 17 × 11 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1908.

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).