Catalogue Entry: ALCH00089

Notes 'Ex Rosario Magno', 2 pp. on.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin with some English , c. 750 words, 4 ff.

Source: Ms. 415, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £5 and offered to Keynes, but he returned it on 19 August 1936. In 2006, following the closure of the Dibner Institute, the holdings of the Babson Collection were transferred on permanent loan to the Hungtington Library, San Marino, California.

Sotheby Lot

SL95

Contents

Elucidations of alchemical symbolism with page references to the 'Rosarium Philosophorum' in Zetzner's Theatrum Chemicum (H1608) [this was commonly referred to as 'Rosarium Magnum' to distinguish it from various other 'philosophical rosaries': see Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, 2: 287].