[Coronatio naturae, sive doctrina de summa medicina…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Ferguson 245
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16--
  • Language of Material
    • Latin
  • Physical Description
    • Disbound volume with vellum wrappers, 32.5 x 21 cm.; ii, 68 leaves; 67 pen and watercolour drawings

Scope and Content

Coronatio naturae, sive doctrina de summa medicina 67 hieroglyphicis explicata per anonymum. Quibus accesserunt totidem earum explicationes in usum filiorum artis summo studio elaboratae per Anonymum eundem Cabala. Natura naturans naturat omnia Naturatum, Sol numen, Productrix foetus mirabilitatis Franciscus Steuart'. 17th century.
Showing the separation and conjunction of the elements. Latin text accompanies the drawings of the 'Crowning of Nature' up to no. 41, 'Multiplicatio'.
For other copies see MSS Ferguson 8, 155, 208, 253.
Copy of advertisement from Morning Herald 24 November 1797 for a manuscript of this description, priced 200 gns, inserted between leaves i and ii, with fragments of printed original on verso of fol. ii: but cf. MS Ferguson 253. The name Franciscus Steuartus appears on fols i and ii. An inscription on the inside front cover relates to a journal of the 32nd year of reign of Queen Elizabeth i.e. 1590.

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