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Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 74. 100 folios (vi folios + 193 numbered pages). 186x120mm. 18th Century. Le rosaire des philosophes.
[With 21 line drawings, copies of the woodcuts in the printed work the 'Rosarium Philosophorum', which was first published in' De Alchimia opuscula complura veterum philosophorum', Francoforti, 1550. Ferguson in his Bibliotheca chemica, II, p. 287, writes: '...there is a translation in French, which as far as I know, was not printed, but of which I have seen a copy in manuscript with the pictures finely executed with pen and ink'.]
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