Recueille de diférents secrets avec leurs propriétés, ensemble la manière de les fairè, et de s'en servir

Date:
Late 18th century
Reference:
MS.4171
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Description

A few pen-drawn magical characters. A collection of magical receipts and 'secrets', including charms and folk-remedies: on the 20th leaf there is a copy of the 'Sator Arepo' palindrome in an unusual form.

Publication/Creation

Late 18th century

Physical description

1 volume 58 ll. (last 8 bl.). 4to. 19 × 15 cm. Original vellum binding from a leaf of a French legal document dated 1716.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1936.

Ownership note

Pasted inside the upper cover is a printed Library label 'Ex Bibliotheca Grillot de Givry Kabbelistae', and above 'Ex Libris Grillot de Givry Kabbaliste'. Below the label is a holograph note by him giving details of his acquisition of this MS.: 'Ce manuscrit a été acheté par moi à une sorciére du village de Conques' near Aurillac.

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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Accession number

  • 69314