Miscellanea Alchemica III

Collection of alchemical and other tracts and extracts, with a few medical and household receipts: mainly in Latin, but with a few entries in French. Illustrated with a few roughly drawn alchemical signs and sigils. Contents: (Inside upper cover) Retour de Paris à Bourdeux. Leaf A Chemin de Bourdeaux à Paris. Tables of stages. Av Medicinal weights (in french). B. Reciepts for Hippocras (in French).

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 2 ll. (A, B.). + 109pp. + pp. 200-299. + 1 l. 8vo. 15 x 9 1/2 cm. Original gilt stamped calf binding. The pagination is complete and the numeration 110-199 has been dropped.

Purchased at Sotheby's 15/6/1908, Lot 37.

Written inside the lower cover are some memoranda on debts in French dated 1668. Phillips MS. No. 2263

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).