Catalogue Entry: ALCH00074
A list of 113 alchemical authors, categorised by nationality, and eight anonymous works.
Custodial History
SL3 was bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Goldschmidt' (E.P. Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd., 45 Old Bond Street, London) for £7 and offered to Keynes on approval for £14.15s. but obviously returned. It appeared on p. 38 of a Goldschmidt catalogue of uncertain date divided into two items: 166 ('List of 119 Alchemical Books') at £42, which is now Babson Ms. 418, and 167 ('113 Writers on Alchemy') at £9.9s., which is this manuscript.
Sotheby Lot
Part of SL3Related Material
See Figala et al., 'De Scriptoribus', 142.
