Catalogue Entry: ALCH00013

'Anno 1656. Serenissimi Principis Frederici Ducis Holsatiæ et Sleswici &c. communicatione sequens epistola me sibi vendicat, inaudita memorans. Veni et vide'.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin , c. 1,300 words, 7 pp.

Source: Keynes Ms. 24, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £7 and sold to Keynes on 19 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL21

Contents

Transcript of an anonymous alchemical manuscript, an English version of which appeared in Aurifontina chymica, published by William Cooper in 1680 (see Westfall, 'Newton's Index Chemicus', 176, n. 9).