Catalogue Entry: ALCH00076

'The Book of Nicholas Flamel conteining The explication of the Hieroglyphical Figures w^ch he caused to be put in the Church of the SS. Innocents at Paris'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 15,000 words, 61 pp.

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £21. Yahuda tried for it unsuccessfully on 12 August 1936. Bought at some point by Sidney M. Edelstein and donated by him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December 1958.

Sotheby Lot

SL25

On the cover, in Thomas Pellet's hand: 'Flamel. N^o. 54'.

Cf. Keynes Ms. 14 and Yahuda Ms. Var. 259.3.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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Catalogue Entry: ALCH00076

'The Book of Nicholas Flamel conteining The explication of the Hieroglyphical Figures wch he caused to be put in the Church of the SS. Innocents at Paris'.

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