Miscellanea Alchemica XXIII

Collection of alchemical processes, short tracts, iatro-chemical receipts, etc.: mainly in French, but with one item in Italian. This MS. is written in the same two variant scripts as the preceding entry.

mid-18th century

1 volume 134 [148] pp. 8vo. 16 1/2 × 11 cm. Original calf binding. Pp. 67-81 have been cut out, as well as 2 leaves between p. 116 and p. 117: some leaves are missing both at the beginning and at the end.

Purchased 1935.

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).