Practice, The or how to make Gold step by step

The text is in French, and the title as given above has been written on the first leaf by another hand. The MS. is by the same hand as that of MS. No. 2220 [Du Grand Oeuvre].

c. 1770

1 volume 1 l. + 18 pp. 4to. 23 × 191/2 cm. Modern vellum covers.

Purchased at Sotheby's 12/5/1914, Lot 20 (part).

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).

From the John Eliot Hodgkin Collection.