Manuscripts
Alchemical, medical and technical compilation: manuscript, 15th-16th centuries
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- Description
- Collection of alchemical, medical and technical works, consisting of parts of several manuscripts of separate origin but by now impossible to distinguish precisely one from the other, brought together in the late fifteenth century.
- Date
- between 1400 and 1599
- Call number
- mssHU 1051
- Provenance
- Included among the pen trials on f. 125v what may be a copyists or an owners name, "[w]ell beloved rotgers." On f. 1, signature dating ca. 1600 "Jo. Bisshop," the same person who signed another alchemical and medical compilation formed of several manuscripts and formerly in the Hastings collection. Belonged to the Hastings family, earls of Huntingdon. Purchased with the Hastings papers in January 1927 from Maggs, who had acquired the material from Edith Maud Abney-Hastings, Countess of Loudoun.
- Restrictions
- RESTRICTED. Use digital reproduction in the Huntington Digital Library. Original available by special permission only.
- Dimensions
- 222 x 147-165 (135-178 x 80-132) mm
- Associated people
- Aristotle. (approximately 1300-approximately 1365.)
- Pseudo-Pliny. (1214?-1294.)
- Johannes, (-1277.)
- Morienus,
- Bacon, Roger,
- John
- Hastings (Family),
- Associated organization
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.