Catalogue Entry: ALCH00098

'Miscellanea': Latin notes on experiments, chiefly from Ramón Lull's 'Codicillus' and 'Testamentum' and Zetzner's Theatrum Chemicum.

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Ms. 747, 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

SL81 was bought at the Sotheby sale by Francis Edwards for £9.10s. and originally included a further 6 pp. of miscellaneous notes, the location of which is now unknown. Cf. SL39 (whereabouts unknown). 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

Part of SL81

See H997 and H1608.

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