Manuscriptum chymicum

A collection of iatro-chemical treatises and some receipts, by various authors. Contents: No. 4, No. 8 and the index seem to be written by different hands.

Late 17th century

1 volume 2 ll. + 768 pp. + 22 ll. (last bl.). + 34 ll. 4to. 21 1/2 × 17 cm. Original vellum binding: lettered on the spine 'Manuscriptum chymicum'. Pp. 209-212 wanting.

Purchased 1925.

A note in pencil inside the upper cover 'Ex libris Diethelm Lavater [1781-1846]:' this seems to have been written by a 19th cent. bookseller. Above this is written 'Ex Bibliotheca E[lemer] Varju de Cseke. 1891'.

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).