Catalogue Entry: ALCH00032

Transcripts from two published alchemical tracts.

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin and English , c. 3,000 words, 8 pp. on 4 ff.

Source: Keynes Ms. 43, King's College, Cambridge, UK

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Bought at the Sotheby sale by Maggs Brothers for £21 and sold to Keynes on 18 August 1936 for the sale price plus 20%.

Sotheby Lot

SL71

Contents

f. 1r 'Regulæ seu canones aliquot Philosophici de Lapie [sic: leg. 'Lapide'] Philosophico Authore docto quodam Anonymo. Impress in fine Curationum Paracelsi'. List of alchemical rules in Latin, c. 2,500 words.

f. 4r 'Mayer's ffigures præfixed to Basil Valentine's Keys'. Description of ten alchemical symbols, in English, c. 500 words.

Related Material

See H1238-H1243 for Newton's Paracelsus collection, and H128 for references to Maier's emblems in Newton's annotations to his copy of Basil Valentine's Last Will and Testament.