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An Alchemical Miscellany from the John Rylands Library - Paul Ferguson - 07-01-2026 "Latin MS 82 from the John Rylands Library in Manchester is a fascinating, if often overlooked, alchemical miscellany dating to the early seventeenth century. According to an inscription on the top of fol. 2r, the book appears to have once been owned by ‘Jo. Huniades’ – Janos Banfi-Hunyadi (1576-1646) – a Hungarian alchemist who lectured in chemistry at Gresham College, London, and was good friends with Arthur Dee, the son of the famed astrologer, John Dee (to whom the book is dedicated)." https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/2017/05/09/an-alchemical-miscellany-from-the-john-rylands-library/ |