Handbuchlein vor allerhand chymischen Sachen. Colligirt unnd zusammen gezogen durch mich (name struck through, and illegible)

Illustrated with a coloured symbolic figure, and a pen-drawing of 'Sigillum Hermetis': also two drawings, one coloured, the other uncoloured, of a statue of Paracelsus. Facing the latter is an account of a process to obtain the 'Red Lion', dated 1648. On the 9th leaf is the date 1646 and the Author's signature which, as on the title, has been made illegible. The MS. is mainly concerned with alchemical processes, and iatro-chemical remedies derived from Paracelsus and his followers.

1646-1648

1 volume 139 ll. 8vo. 161/2 x 10 cm. Original vellum covers from a leaf of a 15th cent. Service book. Some margins frayed.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/1/1935, Lot 13 (part).

Pasted inside the upper cover is the armorial book-plate 'Ad Bibliothecam Instituti Medici Senckenbergiani' (founded by the Physician, Johann Christian Senckenberg [1707-1772] in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1763). From the Julius Kohn Library.

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).