Catalogue Entry: ALCH00004

Four alchemical verse allegories, in English.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, 8 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 15, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £7.10s. and sold to Keynes on 4 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL8

Contents

'Out of Bloomfield's Blossoms' (an excerpt, beginning 'Father Time set me at y^e gate'), 212 lines; 'A short work that beareth the name of S^r George Ripley', 92 lines (almost complete); and two 'Fragments', one untitled (beginning 'Let y^e old man drink wine till he piss'), 8 lines, and the other headed 'The whole science', 11 lines.

Related Material

These are all taken from Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652: H93), 305-23, 393-6, 436 and 434 respectively.