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Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: ff. 32 b-41 b George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Bosom book of the great elixir: 16th cent. ff. 44 b-63 b Jacobus de Lomerto: De transmutatione metallorum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Chemistry: Chemical receipts, processes and experiments: 15th-17th centt.: Engl., Germ., Fr., Ital., and Lat. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt.
includes: ff. 1-8 b Johannes Meursius, the Younger: Collectanea de tibiis: 1641. ff. 9-10b Navigation: Essay for finding the longitude and latitude by observation: 17th cent. f. 12 b Jan Jacob van Rosendael: Entries of his children's births, and of the deaths of himself and his wife: 1549-1561;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: ff. 1-42 Philippus Rouillascus, of Piedmont: Abregé de son Grand Ouvre des Philosophes: 17th cent.: Fr.: Extr. ff. 99-104 Ramón Lull, of Majorca: Elucidatio...
includes: ff. 1-28 Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. ff. 35-43 Medicine. Charms and Receipts: Orationes et receptæ medicæ.: 10th-18th centt.: Lat., Fr., Dutch, Engl., Germ., Ital., and Span. ff. 35-49 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Miscellaneous volume containing material on alchemical and chemical processes and experiments, English poetry and operatic extracts, English chronicles and history, mathematics, and domestic receipts
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 1, 8-11b, 19-24, 26, 29, 32-133b. Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. ff. 2-7b. Poetry ENGLISH: 'The Songs In ye Theater of Musick' [published by Henry Playford, 1685], including (a-c) Th...
Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: ff. 12-23 b Receipts: Miscellaneous receipts: 17th cent. ff. 26-38 George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Extracts from his 12 gates: 17th cent. ff. 39-48 b R...