Catalogue Entry: ALCH00079

Notes and abstracts 'Ex Fabri Hydrographo Spagyrico' (f. 1r) and 'Ex Palladio Spagyrico' (f. 2r), with page references (1690s?).

Author: Isaac Newton

Metadata: Not yet dated, in Latin , c. 1,500 words, 4 pp. on 2 ff.

Source: NMAHRB Ms. 1024 B, Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

[Normalized Text (at Chymistry of Isaac Newton)]

Custodial History

Previously Burndy Ms. 13. Bought at the Sotheby sale by Pickering & Chatto for £7. Later offered for sale at $285 by the New York bookseller William Schab, and presumably purchased from him by Bern Dibner, who donated it to the Smithsonian.

Sotheby Lot

SL23

Notes

Both works cited are by the French alchemist Pierre Jean Fabré.

Related Material

See H598 for Newton's copy of Fabré's complete works, and Dobbs, 'Newton Manuscripts at the Smithsonian', 106.