Catalogue Entry: ALCH00049

'Tabula Smaragdina' and 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin , c. 1,750 words, 4 pp. on 3 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Keynes Ms. 60, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £4.10s. and sold to Keynes on 19 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL105

Contents

f. 1r 'Tabula Smaragdina': another copy of the Latin excerpt from 'Hermes Trismegistus' reproduced in Keynes Ms. 28, with the [correct] page reference 'Theatr. Chym. Vol. 1 pag 362', followed by other excerpts on transmutation from Zetzner's Theatrum Chemicum.

f. 2r 'Hieroglyphica Planetarum': notes, principally from Lull, Maier and Flammel, on astronomico-alchemical symbolism.

Related Material

See also Keynes Ms. 27.