Catalogue Entry: ALCH00031

'Pearce the black Monck upon y^e Elixir': an alchemical verse allegory, 226 lines.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in English with the last four lines in Latin , 7 pp. on 4 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 42, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £14.10s., though Lymington had left a bid 'on the house' under the pseudonym 'Ludford'.

Sotheby Lot

SL68

Related Material

Copied from Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652: H93), 269-74 and 427-30.