Compendium libri cabalistico-chymici

COMPENDIUM libri cabalistico-chymici Artephius seu Aesch Mezareph dicti de Lapide Philosophorum. With two short commentaries: in Latin. Followed by two other alchemical tracts in German, and extracts, also in German, from Johann Schröder's 'Artzney-Schatz der Medizin'. The fourth work is illustrated with pen-drawings of sigils. The first four works are written by the same hand: the last two, by different but contemporary scribes. At the end of the last tract, there is an alchemical receipt by the same hand as MS. No. 2659 [H.(G.C.)].

c. 1725

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 120 ff. last 20 bl.. 4to. 191/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding, with two green silk ties. A foliation has been added in pencil.

Purchased 1930.

For notes on this MS. cf. entry for preceding MS. 1763. Hebrew symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.

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).

Armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus, S.R.I. Comes de Chorinsky [1729-1792].