Reading notes and excerpts on alchemy and related subjects

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Title: Reading notes and excerpts on alchemy and related subjects
Creator: Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Published / Created: [circa 1700]
Publication Place: England (Cambridge?)
Abstract: Manuscript (holograph) notes on experiments out of Raymond Lull's works and out of the Theatrum Chymicum etc
Description: In English and Latin.
Binding: Unbound; preserved in a folder.
Inks shade from light to dark brown. No illustration or ornament.
Remnants of a wax seal on.
Provenance: Descended with Newton's papers to Lord Lymington, according to a typed note preserved with the manuscripts; Denis Duveen, with his printed address label on the cardboard folder. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon.
Extent: ff. 1 : paper ; 197 x 157 mm - 310 x 195 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
Chemistry
Subjects: Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Alchemy > Early works to 1800
Chemistry > Early works to 1800
Duveen, Denis I. > Ownership
Mellon, Paul > Ownership
Portsmouth, Gerard Vernon Wallop, Earl of, 1898- > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Isaac Newton, Reading Notes and Excerpts on Alchemy and Related Subjects. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.