Libretto d'alchimia e di medicina

Written in a difficult current hand, probably by an elderly writer. The MS. contains receipts and extracts on alchemical, chemical and iatrochemical subjects.

Middle 17th century

1 volume 4 ll. (first bl.). + 253 pp. + 15 ll. 8vo. 151/2 X 101/2 cm. Original vellum binding.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1934.

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).