La médicine universelle avec les regles et l'ordre à observer pour la manipulation

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

70 leaves : paper; Binding: Modern cloth.; Forms part of: Henry Seybert Library of Modern Spiritualism.; French.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in France, September 1767 (p. 1).; Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper; [ii], 1-2, 21-24 [bound in out of sequence], 3-20, 25-28, [ii], 29-127, [i], 128, [i], 129-134; contemporary pagination in ink, upper right corners.; Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with title page in a second hand. Title may not actually belong to the text which is largely alchemical.; Table of contents: 1. p.1-28: Advertissement ... à mon sprit del la medecine universelle. -- 2. p.29-127: Seven alchemical operations. -- 3. p.128-134: Recipies.; Title from title page (p. 1). Title page which also has the following quotation: S'eleve qui voudra par force oú par adresse, /jusqu'au sommet glissant des grandeurs dela cour, /may jeveux sans quitter mon aimable séjour, /loin dumonde, et du bruit rechercher la sagesse. Horatius. Zacour-Hirsch suggest the author may be Georges de La Faye, 1699-1781.