Catalogue Entry: ALCH00011

'The Epitome of the treasure of health written by Edwardus Generosus Anglicus innominatus who lived Anno Domini 1562'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 14,000 words, 28 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 22, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Heffers for £26 and sent on approval to Keynes on 17 August 1936 for £33.

Sotheby Lot

SL19

Contents

Copy of an unpublished treatise on the Philosophers' Stone, the 'Animal or Angelicall Stone', the 'Prospective [not 'Perspective' as stated in the Sotheby catalogue] stone or y^e magical stone of Moses' and 'y^e vegetable or y^e growing stone'; concludes with an alchemical poem.