Catalogue Entry: ALCH00116
Miscellaneous alchemical notes
Custodial History
SL 18 was bought at the Sotheby sale by Pickering & Chatto for £9.10s. One folio of SL18 is now f. 1 of Ms. QD14.N498 in the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.
Sotheby Lot
Part of SL18Contents
a) Notes on 'Terra Lemnia & Terra Sigillata [...] sold in but one shop in London [...] for 2s. 6d. per pound', and its distillation products, c. 230 words, 1 p. At the foot, a note: 'Mr. Leibnitz is Counsellor to ye Elector of Brunswick. Mr. Fatio has no correspondence with him. This direction will find him out. Cl. viro D. G. G. Leibnitio Hannoveræ'.
b) 'De Peste' (notes from Van Helmont), c. 650 words, 2 pp.
Related Material
See H751 for Newton's copy of Van Helmont's medical compendium.
