Alchemical Tracts

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 MS/10
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Alchemical Tracts
Date(s)	: Unknown
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Rouillach | Philippe
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

A volume of various alchemical tracts, by Philippe Rouillach and others. Notebook of Robert Boyle. 17. 'Preservatif apologetique' pour le meme. Folio 381, recto.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin and French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Occurrence of monogram letters KD several times repeated on the binding indictes that this manuscript belonged to Sir Kenelm Digby.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

See article 'Newly discovered Boyle documents in the Royal Society Archives' by LN Principe in 'Notes and Records of the Royal Society' Volume 49 (1995) pages 57-70.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009.