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Sloane MS 2193
- Record Id:
- 040-002114558
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002112337
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x000368
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 2193
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Sloane 2193
Paper, in Quarto, ff. 89, XVII Century.
1. Treatise on the multiplication of metals; in question and answer. ff. 1-17.
Beginning, 'Quest: First shewe mee in what thing of what thing or by what thing is the medicin or multiplication of mettels to bee made.'
2. Alchymical treatise, taken from 'an olde unknowne manuscript.' ff. 17b-18.
Beginning 'Ye bretheren which seeke the secretes of nature, viz, 2 tinctures, white and red, which after the opinion of philosophers is not had without corporall ferment.'
3. Alchymical extracts from Longinus Caesar. ff. 19-39.
4. English version of George Ripley's Philorcium Philosophorum. ff. 40-46.
The original is printed among his works, Ed. Cassel, 1649. p. 179.
5. Notes out of Alexander de Suchen. ff. 46-52, 80.
6. 'A treatise written in the Caldean tongue anno 1027, and translated into Latin.' f. 53. Beginning, 'The greate elixir is made of 2 extreames, the extreames are crude and cocte.'
7. Various alchymical receipts. ff. 54-56.
8. 'Notes out of Paracelsus his 7 bookes de natura rerum. ff. 57-63.
9. 'An excellent discourse of the old philosophers.' f. 64.
Begin: — 'The olde philosophers did counterfeit the worke of nature choosing clene earthes both white and red.'
10. Extracts from Joachimus Tankius. ff. 66-69.
11. Alchymical notes and receipts. ff. 70-89.
Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt.
includes:
- ff. 19-39 Cæsar Longinus: Alchemical extracts from: 17th cent.
- ff. 40-46 George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Philorcium alchymiæ: 16th-17th centt.: Engl.
- ff. 46-52 b, 80 Alexander von Suchten, MD: De secretis antimonii,: 16th, 17th centt.: Germ., Engl., and Lat.
- ff. 57-63 Philipp Aureol Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus: Notes from his " De natura rerum": 17th cent.
- ff. 66-69 b Joachim Tancke, Professor of Medicine at Leipzig: Practica alchemica: 17th cent.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Sloane Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002112337
040-002114558 - Is part of:
- Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts
Sloane MS 2193 : Sloane 2193Paper, in Quarto, ff. 89, XVII Century.1. Treatise on the multiplication of metals; in question and answer. ff.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002112337[2181]/040-002114558
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
German
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Bombast von Hohenheim, Philipp Aureol Theophrast, called Paracelsus
Longinus, Cæsar
Ripley, George, Augustinian canon of Bridlington and alchemist, d c 1490,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000052289601
Suchten, Alexander, MD
Tancke, Joachim, Professor of Medicine at Leipzig