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Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 332. 20 folios. 320x193mm. 18th Century. Le Texte d'alchimie et le Songe verd a Parise Chez laurent D'Houry rue Saint Jacques devant La fontaine St Severin au St Esprit. 1695. avec privilege du Roy.
[See Jean Maguin Richebourg 'de Bibliotheque des Philosophes Chimiques', Paris, 1790. Vol II, p437.]
[On cover]: 'Le texte d'Alchymie et 'le Songe Vert' a Paris 1695. A very beautiful manuscript, entitled the Text of Alchemy et 'the Green Dream' in which the secrets of nature are unfolded.'
[Bound in paper wrappers with octagonal labels on front, numbered '102'. Other MSS. in the same wrappers are 293, 294, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 307, 312, 327 and 331.]
[Octagonal label no '102'.]
[f1 has pen drawing in an upright rectangle. A Mercury symbol is set within a triangle, which is circumscribed by a circle set in a square. Above this are interlaced triangles with a sun disc bearing a face. Some short phrases in Latin. This is possibly a rough copy of a title page or frontispiece illustration from the printed edition from which this manuscript is copied.]
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