Alchemy: 17th cent.

Date:
1661
Reference:
MS.869
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Alchemy: 17th cent. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Collection of alchemical receipts and processes, followed by medical receipts, and receipts for making artificial gems, etc.: in Italian, a few entries in Latin. (Incomplete). The date 1661 is found on fol. 2 and fol. 3.

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1661

Physical description

1 volume 34 ff. 4to. 22 x 16 cm. Unbound. Some margins frayed or wormed.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1934.

Finding aids

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).

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  • 68503G