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Title: [Alchemical manuscript].
Creator: Everard, John, 1575?-1650?
Heydon, John, 1629-
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1702?]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Title page apparently excised from volume. Table of contents on p. 3-4 of first sequence. Dated "1702" on p. 236 and 248.
Scope/Content: Alchemical manuscript written around 1702 and containing 3 parts by apparently different writers. The first and most central part consists of a treatise on alchemical practices, while the other two sections include a set of alchemical recipes, and a small section of Latin quotations relating to alchemy. The main section, possibly copied from an earlier work, focuses on practical alchemical processes relating to the distillation and purification of substances, the manufacture of elixirs and compound and the transmutation of metals. It includes some personal observations as well, and like the rest of the text, shows the influence of the Hartlib circle, John Everard, Kenelm Digby and John Heydon.
Condition: Bound in contemporary brown suede with covers panelled in blind.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Shelf marks (Provenance)
Extent: 3-258, 1-5 p., bound ;24 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1qp51
MS.1993.003
Language: English
eng
Subject: Alchemy--England--18th century.
Alchemy--Experiments--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Old shelfmark label "162/2" on spine.
Location: CLUW

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