Catalogue Entry: ALCH00139

'Sententiæ notabiles expositæ'

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: 1670s and/or 1680s, in Latin , c. 1,400 words, 4 pp. + 4 pp. blank

Source: Location Unknown

Custodial History

SL 103 was bought at the 1936 Sotheby sale by Emmanuel Fabius for £6. This portion was sold as Lot 502 at the New York Sotheby sale of 3 December 2004 to an unknown buyer for $78,000. The remainder ('A Key to Snyders') was Lot 503 at the same sale.

Sotheby Lot

Part of SL103

Contents

A collation of quotations from a wide range of acknowledged printed sources including Michael Maier, the anonymous 'Turba philosophorum' and 'Tabula smaragdina', Johannes Grassæus, Ramón Lull, Lorenzo Ventura, Artephius, Nicolas Flamel and Rosinus. A quotation from the 'Liber Abre' in the Musæum hermeticum of 1677 makes the manuscript datable, at least in part, to 1677 or later.

Notes

Mistitled 'Sententiæ notabilii expositiæ' in the 1936 Sotheby catalogue.