Catalogue Entry: ALCH00055

Incomplete abstract of Yworth's 'Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus' condensed into five chapters (c. early 1690s).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English , c. 3,300 words, 12 pp. on 7 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 66, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Heffers for £10.10s. Keynes expressed an interest on 12 August 1936 and presumably went on to buy it.

Sotheby Lot

SL119

Notes

The Sotheby catalogue describes this as an abstract of the first five chapters of the work, but it is a five-chapter abstract of the whole work, or at least of as much of it as is preserved in the ten chapters of Keynes Ms. 65.

Related Material

See Keynes Mss. 65 and 91, Hampshire Record Office Ms. NC 17 and Yale Mellon Ms. 80.