Receipt-Book, Alchemical & Chemical: 17th century

Collection of alchemical and chemical receipts and processes: mainly in Italian, with a few entries in Latin. Illustrated by a few small rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc.

c. 1625

1 volume 1 l. + 42 ff. + 36 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 14 cm. Modern boards.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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).