Catalogue Entry: ALCH00026

Three alchemical verse extracts, in English.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, 7 pp. on 4 ff

Source: Keynes Ms. 37, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £26.

Sotheby Lot

SL55

Contents

'Out of Norton's Ordinal', 200 lines; 'Out of Chaucer's Tale of y^e Chanon's Yeoman', 12 lines; 'Out of y^e work of Richard Carpenter', 14 lines. Followed by the heading 'Out of Dastins Dream', but this entry breaks off after only one line.

Related Material

These are all excerpted from Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652: H93), in which the works quoted from appear on pp. 1-106, 227-56, 275-7 and 257-68 respectively.