Catalogue Entry: ALCH00138

Miscellaneous fragmentary alchemical notes

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Location Unknown

Custodial History

SL96 was bought at the 1936 Sotheby sale by Emmanuel Fabius for £7. This section was sold as Lot 504 at the New York Sotheby sale of 3 December 2004 to an unknown buyer for $33,600. The remainder of SL96 (notes on the Pharmacopœia of Johann Schröder) was sold as Lot 501 at the same sale.

Sotheby Lot

Part of SL96

Contents

Includes notes towards an index of alchemical terms and another of alchemical writers, and notes on the preparation of mercury and 'purgation' of sulphur.

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