Alchemical miscellany

Description

Title: Alchemical miscellany
Contributor: Norton, Samuel, 1548-1604?
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Published / Created: [ca. 1660]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
Description: In English.
Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right.
Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified.
Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
Provenance: Mellon MS 16, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965.
Extent: ff. 69 : 310 x 190 (245 x 110) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Formulas, recipes, etc
Medicine
Subjects: Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Formulas, recipes, etc
Medicine > Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Citation: Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.