IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3999-4004
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Principes fondamentaux et réflections (sur l'Alchimie)
Date(s): 1828-1834
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 6 volumes
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Not given.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A collection of extracts and notes on alchemy, with a detailed account of the unidentified author's own experiments. This set of MSS. seems to have been begun in 1828 [cf. Vol. I] and the latest date found is in Vol. V, p. 102 'Aujourd'hui 1. Ap. 1834'. On fol. 772 of Vol. I he speaks of having been engaged on alchemical researches 'pendant plus de 30 ans', and on pp. 74-77 of the same volume, he gives details of various experiments and processes tried out from 1810 to 1825.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: French
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Physical characteristics:
6 vols. 12mo. 131/2 × 9 cm. Original calf bindings.
Finding aids:
Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Inside the upper cover of Vol. I is an engraved book-plate lettered 'Ex libris hermeticis Philophotes' (i.e. Albert Poisson [1868-1894]).
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1936.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2008