Script: Written by Franciscus de Traversagnis in a very neat humanistic cursive, small throughout and often minute. A few marginalia by a 16th-century Italian hand which supplied a heading on f. 80v.

Rubricated and with plain, red capitals throughout except in the last 6 ff.

Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper boards with diced calf back, the backstrip in compartments with horizontal gilt fillets, lines of gilt dots on the false bands, title in one compartment in gilt, "TRACTATUS | DE | ELIXIR". Early, probably original green edges.

In Latin.

Alchemy and the occult Mellon MS 18.

Alchemical Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Alchemy > Early works to 1800.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.