Catalogue Entry: ALCH00075

Notes and abstracts from assorted alchemical works, beginning missing.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin , c. 5,000 words, 8 pp.

Source: Ms. 38196, St Andrews University Library, St Andrews, Fife, UK

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Heffers for £9. Sent to Keynes on approval on 5 September 1936 but presumably returned. Appeared as item 4 in Heffers' Catalogue no. 493 (1936) at £15 and was presumably bought by John Read (see notes to Ms. 38195 (b) above).

Sotheby Lot

SL42

Contents

Includes the sub-headings 'Arnoldi Speculum Alchymiæ' (p. 3), 'Instructio Galli Anonymi ad filium de Arbore Solari' (also p. 3), 'Emblemata Michaelis Maieri Comitis Germani' (p. 8).