Valois, Nicolas

Hebdomas Hebdomadum Kabalistarum, Magorum, Brachmanarum, antiquorumque omnium sapientum, secreta misteria continens. Illustrated by 38 (one doubled) full-page symbolic alchemical water-colour drawings. The legends are in Sanscrit, Chaldaean, Hebrew, Coptic, Greek, and Latin.

mid-18th century

1 volume 50 ll. (last 6 bl.). 4to. 231/2 × 18 cm. Modern vellum binding.

Purchased 1931.

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).

Below the title, and by the same hand: 'Ex libris Troubat Chirur[gien]'.