Catalogue Entry: ALCH00130

'Out of Schroderus Pharmacopia'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1670s or early 1680s, in Latin , 3 pp. and 2 lines + 4 pp. blank

Source: Location Unknown

Custodial History

SL96 was bought at the 1936 Sotheby sale by Emmanuel Fabius for £7. This section was sold as Lot 501 at the New York Sotheby sale of 3 December 2004 to an unknown buyer for $60,000, while the remainder (miscellaneous alchemical notes) was sold as Lot 504.

Sotheby Lot

Part of SL96

Contents

Notes on and excerpts from the Pharmacopœia of Johann Schröder (Ulm, 1641 and frequently reprinted).

Notes

Handwriting and paper seem similar to those of Keynes Ms. 18 in King's College, Cambridge.

Related Material

See H1473 for Newton's copy of another work by Schroeder.