Paracelsus Bombastus ab Hohenheim (1493-1541)

Sydus philosophicum et chimicum collectoris incerti ex operibus Paracelsi: in Latin throughout. This collection of extracts from the works of Paracelsus, which are mainly concerned with alchemy, seems to be unrecorded.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 9 ll. (last bl.). +624 pp.+19ll. 8vo. 15 x 10 1/2 cm. Original limp vellum binding.

Purchased 1923.

In the first three leaves the date 1704 occurs in entires made by a former owner, who was apparently an Italian schoolmaster.

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).