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Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 320. Six items in various formats. 19th Century. Item 1. 148 folios. Different sizes.
[Bundle of bibliographical and biographical notes on Paracelsus, together with some of Dr Eduard Schubert's correspondence with bookdealers, etc. In German.]
Item 2. 12 folios. 350x255mm.
[Printed pages 82-194 from the British Museum catalogue of printed books, with the entries under Bombastus von Hohenheim... called Paracelsus, annotated with marginal notes.]
Item 3. 48 folios 161x100mm.
Paracelsica.
[Notebook with notes by Schubert on Paracelsus. In German.]
Item 4. 302 folios (1-172 sewn in signatures). 210x165 (approx)+15 small notes on printed cards etc.
[Bundle of papers in leather pouch constituing bibliographic and biographical notes on Paracelsus. In German and Latin.]
Item 5. 21 loose folios + 6 folios in signature. 19th Century. In English, German, some French.
[Notes on alchemy, with some extracts from treatises].
[There is a piece by Bacstrom here, which seems to relate to the contents of MS. Ferguson 22.]
Item 6. 695 folios (record cards). 174x105mm.
[Catalogue of Titles of Alchemical and Hermetic books mainly from Paracelsus. These would seem to be the record cards of Dr Schubert's Library.]
[Dr Eduard Schubert (1822-1892) assembled the most complete collection ever formed of the writings of Paracelsus. After his death his Library was sold in 1893 in London. Ferguson seems to have acquired many of the items including Schubert's own research notes. See 'Bibliography of the Paracelsus Library of the Late E. Schubert M.D. ... to be sold by William Wesley & Son...', London, 1893.]
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