Sabatier (P.)

Collection of alchemical tratises in French and Latin. Written partly in italics, and partly in caractères de civiliré: some headings in red. On fol. 255 pen-drawn circular figures, on fol 256r an elaborate alchemical furnace, and in the margin of fol. 297v a drawing of the apparatus called 'Sigillum Hermetis'. Produced at Puylaurens.

1578-1594

1 volume 324 ll. (last 15 bl.). 8vo. 19 x 13 1/2 cm. Original vellum binding from a 15th century legal document. Partly with a separate foliation, and with signatures.

Purchased 1935.

No. 6 This is written by a different hand, possibly by the writer of the note on fol. 2 dated 1626, whose name apears to be 'Charles Huplein, Modansis'. 11 This does not appear to be the Commentary usually ascribed to Hortulanus. 12 The attribution of this work to Bernhardus Trevisanus is conjectual. 13 In Wickersheimer's 'Dictionnaire biographique' Vol. II, p. 771 is an entry of 'Valrand Du Busrobert' extracted from the Archives d'Amiens under dates 1496-1502. 15 This short tract is possibly a version of the 'Rosarius abbreviatus' by John Dastin, discussed by Thorndike in his History of Magic and Experimental Science Vol. III, pp. 94, 95. Another version in Spanish is recorded in W. J. Wilson's 'Catalogue of Alchemical MSS.' ('Osiris' Vol VI, p. 409), where it seems to be ascribed to Arnoldus de Villanova in the original text, though this may only indicate that Arnoldus was the translator.

On the first leaf 'Ex libris J. Delisstard' and on the next leaf below the text 'Delisstard'.

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).