Compendium libri cabalistico-chymici

COMPENDIUM libri cabalistico-chymici Artephius seu Aesch Mezareph dicti de Lapide Philosophorum. With two short commentaries: in Latin. Followed by two other alchemical tracts in German, and extracts, also in German, from Johann Schröder's 'Artzney-Schatz der Medizin'. The fourth work is illustrated with pen-drawings of sigils. The first four works are written by the same hand: the last two, by different but contemporary scribes. At the end of the last tract, there is an alchemical receipt by the same hand as MS. No. 2659 [H.(G.C.)].

c. 1725

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 120 ff. last 20 bl.. 4to. 191/2 x 16 cm. Original vellum binding, with two green silk ties. A foliation has been added in pencil.

Purchased 1930.

Armorial book-plate of Ignatius Dominicus, S.R.I. Comes de Chorinsky [1729-1792].

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).

For notes on this MS. cf. entry for preceding MS. 1763. Hebrew symbols in Moorat's catalogue description replaced by Latin characters.