Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy: volume I

Transcripts, extracts, and notes on alchemy [etc.]. Vol. I. Partly holograph MSS. On the spine is a label inscribed 'MSS. on alchemy received from H[enry] C[owell] Boyes 1894.' This is a printed title to the collection, and is found on the spine of both volumes.

19 ll. - Some processes copied from an Old MSc. in folio belonging to Mr. Tilloch, Concerning the healing of wounds, T. Paracelsus, his best plaisters. Doctor Charas Stella at Florence, his Red Powder communicated to me in March 1805 by Baron de Rosenheim from Vienna [In German]. Mr. A. T[illoch]'s thoughts how to make the Lapis by a short process. Holograph MS. by Bacstrom., 1805

94 pp. + 5 ll. - A philosophical and chymical manuscript, By a different hand., c. 1850

19 ll. - Commentary on a treatise of Bernard, Earl of Trevisan, of the Philosophers Stone, London, 1683 in Collectanea Chymica 1684, by Alexander Tilloch Esqre. 1806, The work by S[igismund] B[acstrom] November 1806. Notes on several [alchemical] authors by Mr. Tilloch. Useful extracts by Mr. R. Ford. Holograph MS. by Bacstrom.

3 ll. last bl. - Alchemical notes, Holograph MS. by Bacstrom, dated 1805.

5. ll. - Johannes Gier his (alchemical) work 1512, At the end, 'Finished this Msc. 1804, the 20th April. S. Bacstrom', followed by notes on 'Palingenesia plantarum', etc. Holograph MS. by Bacstron.

28 pp. - Elaboration of the L(apis P(hilosophorum), written to a Prince Elector of Saxony, partly in German, partly in Latin, Translated by S. Bacstrom for the use of his friends. London, December 6th, 1806. The 12 labours of Hercules. Holograph MS. by Bacstrom.

59 ff. - Of the 3rd Part of the Elements of Chemistry, A particular book respecting Alchemy or the making of gold. [From Johann Conrad Barchusen's 'Elementa chemiae'. 1718]. Written on rectos only by a middle 19th cent. hand.

7 ll. (last 2 bl.) - On sedative water, etc, By a different 19th cent. hand., c. 1850

21 ll. (last 2 bl.) - Transcript of a translation of an unidentified alchemical work beginning 'With the blessing of God, I will show you both the practice and philosophical means to obtain the same Elixer (sic) or white and red tincture....', By a different 19th cent. hand, written on rectos only., c. 1850

c. 1850

1 volume 19 ll. + 1 l. + 94 pp. + 5 ll. + 19 ll. + 3 ll. last bl.. + 7 ll. last 2 bl. + 5 ll. + 28 pp. + 59 ff. + 21 ll. last 2 bl. 4to. v.s. 1804-1806. 19th cent. half-calf binding. The titles of some of the Bacstrom transcripts are on slips, some pasted down. The various MSS. in this volume are of different 4to. formats.

Purchased 1928.

Armorial book-plate of Edward Matthey [1836-1918].

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).