Catalogue Entry: ALCH00073
'The Hunting of ye Green Lyon & putrefaction of the body according to the number of the eagles', 2 pp., followed by miscellaneous notes in Latin, c. 400 words, 1 p.
Custodial History
Bought at the Sotheby sale by John Read (chemistry professor at St Andrews and a writer on alchemy and early chemistry) with an 'on the house' bid of £12. Read had also expressed an interest in lots 27 (now in the Joseph Halle Schaffner Collection) and 55 (now Keynes Ms. 37).
Sotheby Lot
SL14Contents
Transcript from an unidentified work: this is not the 'Hunting of the Greene Lyon' of Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum and Keynes Ms. 20.
Notes
Karin Figala, in a personal communication, has suggested that the title has a 'Philalethan' ring to it. The headings 'Green Lyon' and 'Eagles' are to be found in the 'Index chemicus' (Keynes Ms. 35).
