Volume 1
Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1962-1973
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Catalogue of Western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library / by S.A.J. Moorat. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Illustrated by crude marginal water-colour drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. The receipts are numbered from [52] to 94, both of which entries are incomplete; the numeration of the receipts appears to be irregular. Purchased 1931. (6444i B ) 27. — Collection of alchemical receipts: in Italian; mainly written by two hands. 49 11. 8vo. 15^x10^ cm. [Late x6th cent.] On vellum, original stamped panelled calf gilt binding, roughly re-backed. From the Julius Kohn Library. Purchased at Sotheby’s 28/1/1935, Lot 1. (68043) 28. ALCHEMY : 17th cent. Collection of alchemical, chemical and medi cal receipts: in Italian and Latin; with some additions at the end by a later hand. 533 if.+ 15 11. (last 2 bl.) 8vo. iôxii^cm. [c. 1625.] Modern vellum binding. Illustrated by a few rough pen-drawings of alchemical apparatus, etc. One of the entries by a later hand, on fol. 524, is dated 1678. Purchased 1933. (59598) 29. — Anonymous work containing 57 leaves of remarkable coloured pen- drawings symbolizing the processes of making the Stone, and of alchemical apparatus, etc. With text in Latin. 60 if.+ 4 bl. 11. folio. 27^ x 21 cm. [Middle 17th cent.] Modem boards. Ff. 44-49 contain illustrations of apparatus, and fol. 60 two emblazoned coats of arms, of which the lower one may be that of Charles Bulteau [1627-1710], a French political writer and book-collector. On fol. 12 is a poem of 17 lines in Italian, beginning ‘Ogn’un s’agiuti come puo è sa / attender la natura con due ali ’ : and ending ‘ Salua le spoglie e nulla ne gettare / se liquor diuerso uuoi cauere’. The work begins ‘Tesaurum mundi, hic est//Ecce surgens Philosophus ger- manieque doctrine filius . . .’: various passages in the text appear to be based on Arabic sources. A pencil entry on a fly-leaf is ‘ Sloare [? Sloane] Coll. 2056’, but it is not the MS. under that number in Ayscough’s Catalogue, p. 567. Purchased 1925. (43832) 30. — Collection of alchemical and chemical receipts in Italian and Latin. 4 bl. 11. + 368 pp. + 5 11. + 13 bl. 11. + 20 11. (last bl.) i6mo. 13 x 10 cm. [Middle 17th cent.] Original vellum binding. The index at the end seems to be by a later hand. This MS. is apparently a transcript of an older MS., as there is another foliation of 1-114, which ends on p. 331. Purchased 1929. (57484 (9)) 31. ALDOBRANDINO da Siena [ -1287]. Le régime du corps. Written for Hugues de Salve by Jehan Quatredens. 91 [96] 11. 4to. 22 x 16 cm. Paris. 1390. On vellum, crimson morocco gilt binding by Heritier. Four leaves are wanting after the second leaf, and a final [blank ?] leaf. Margins slightly cropped in rebinding, with loss of most of a seventeenth cent, foliation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20086222_vol_1_0033.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
