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Glasgow University Library MS. Ferguson 238. 40 folios. 332x209mm. 17th Century. 1. f2 Secrets Disclosed - One Friend to another as Bloomfield suppose - The Philosophers Stone, the secrets doth disclose.
[Opposite the title a printed engraving of Ripley's Wheel has been stuck onto f1v.]
2. f4 The Process of the Grand Elixer.
3. f8 The Practice of Lights.
4. f15v Secrets Revealed, Or an Entrance into the Shut Palace of the King, By a most famous Englishman stiling himself Anonymous, or Eyraeneus Philalethes, Cosmopolita, who attained the Philosophers Stone at the Age of 23 years. [In 34 chapters.]
[See Philalethes, 'Eirenaeus Secrets revealed: or, an open entrance to the shut-palace of the king...', London, 1669.]
5. f40v [Note to the Reader. Dated 1645.]
[Note at bottom]: 'This page traced over by me Jasper to preserve the same legible - the originall being nearly faded by time as appears by the part of the line remaining- 1813'..
[Bookplate of William Gordon of Fyvie. Same binding as MSS. Ferguson 239 and 243.]
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