Catalogue Entry: ALCH00093

'Of Chemicall Authors & their writings' (c. 1670-75).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, mainly in Latin with a little English , 7 pp. plus 5 pp. blank.

Source: Ms. 419, 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 'Pickering' (i.e. Pickering & Chatto of 26b King St., St. James's, London SW1) for £11; subsequent history unclear. 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

SL4

Contents

An alphabetical list of about 120 writers on alchemy, with comments on the works of the more important and gaps left for more to be added.

Related Material

Cf. Figala et al., 'De Scriptoribus', esp. 142-3.