Livre de secrets particuliers

Date:
c. 1750
Reference:
MS.3310
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Livre de secrets particuliers. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

There are some medical receipts, but most of the entries are concerned with alchemical or chemical processes, etc. The date 1747 is found on the verso of the 48th leaf.

Publication/Creation

c. 1750

Physical description

1 volume 60 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 211/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum covers from an 18th cent. legal [?] document, with two tape ties. Some leaves have been cut out at the end.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1933.

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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  • 66371