Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 85. 71 folios. 183x115mm. 17th Century. 1. p1-80 Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward unfolded. [English.] [In later hand]: 'From D. of Marlborough's Library (Octr. 28. 1819.) F Stewart Ch Ch [Christ Church college] Oxon 1821.' 2. p81-128 Another copie of the same (from Mr Sympson) 1669 More perfect, and (as it seems) more genuine. [English.] 3. p129-139 Praeparatio Mercurij ad lapidem per Regulum c tum & Lunam ex Mss Philosophi Americani. [Latin.] [A translation of this was published in Eirenaeus Philalethes, Ripley Reviv'd, London,1618, with the title: 'Experiment for the preparation of the sophick mercury, by Luna, and the Antimonial-Stellate-Regulus of Mars, for the Philosopher's Stone'. One of the experiments given in the printed version has here been inserted in the margin, in Latin, by a different hand, and is said to be from 'Mr. Cooper's copy 1677', presumably Willam Cooper, the publisher of Ripley Reviv'd.] 4. p141-163 A Breviary of Sr George Ripleys Compound of Alchemy Or a Paraphrasticall Epitome of his Twelve Gates. [This second version is almost the same as that published in Ripley Reviv'd, with the title: 'An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward IV'.] 5. p164-174 Epta amici [drawing of key] loco in Anonyma. Vidi Lib Mistrel 4to... [Latin, in different hand. Mentions Sendivogius on p. 170.] 6. p176-180 [Bibliographical notes by F. Stewart, the owner of this manuscript in 1821.]