Catalogue Entry: ALCH00071
Incomplete variant copy of William Yworth, 'Processus Mysterij Magni Or An Open Entrance to the Great Mysteries of the Ancient Philosophers', in a clerical hand.
Custodial History
Bought at the Sotheby sale by 'Maxwell' (i.e. Lymington) for £3.10s. and presumably presented or permanently loaned by him to Hampshire Record Office.
Sotheby Lot
SL116Contents
Dated 'Anno Domini 1701' (this evidently refers to date of the original composition, which was never published, not of the transcription, and may mean early 1702 (before 25 March, the first day of the legal year 1702)). Breaks off after Experiment 9 in Chapter Four. On the flyleaf in Thomas Pellet's hand: 'Sep 25 1727/ Not fit to be printed/ T. Pellet'.
Related Material
Cf. Keynes Mss. 65, 66 and 91, Yale Mellon Ms. 80, and the literature cited in the notes to those entries.
