Alchemical and chemical receipts, mostly translated from Hindi.

Collection of alchemical, chemical and medical receipts translated from Hindustani. Compiler's holograph MS. On pale blue paper, many of the sheets having in the outer upper corner a small oval impressed stamp, lettered 'S.R.F. 1846'. Illustrated with a few rough pen-drawings of apparatus, etc. Many of the receipts and notes have the names of modern Hindustani authors written against them.

c.1846.

88 ll. 4to. 201/2x16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1920.

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).