Catalogue Entry: ALCH00051

'The Work of an old Priest, viz: B.' and other alchemical recipes (late 1660s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 3,500 words, 8 pp. on 9 ff. of which one blank.

Source: Keynes Ms. 62, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £16 and sold to Keynes on 30 July 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL108

Contents

Includes directions 'To turne [silver] into [gold]' and for making '[silver] out of [mercury] and [iron]', a recipe for 'aurum potabile', etc., with drawings of retorts, receivers, and other chemical equipment.

Related Material

Evidently abstracted from Keynes Ms. 67.