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Cambridge, Trinity College MS. R.14.45. [CMA 364]. Vellum of different sizes. Many different tracts. 15th, 13th and 14th Centuries. I. [Two small leaves, the name Laurence Sadler and the note Empt. Lond. Feb. 24, Anno 1628 is on one.]
II. 15th Cent. 216X146mm.
2. f3 Ask the comyn verkerys that hole ham soo wyse what ys the erthe & what ys the vete. In English and Latin with passages in verse.
Expl. opus d. Johannis snell de Wigmor.
III. [In another hand.]
3. f27 Erat autem quiam rex volens alios arare potentes. [An alchemical parable].
4. f34 Inc. tractatus magri Reginali de Noua Villa [In seven chapters].
IV. Seven leaves. 184x121mm. 13th and 14th Centuries, discoloured.
5. Epistola Aristotelis philosophi quam misit Allexandro.
V. 15th Century. 222x146mm. in same hand as III.
6. f43 Begins imperfectly. Expl. practica Magri Arnoldi de Noua villa.
7. f46 Cum gaudeant uti brevitate moderni [On the transmutation of the 'inferior planets', contains passages in verse.].
Receipts in English.
VI. f121
8. [Symbols of the Metals in red.] in sekyng oute of the sotheness of this craft yt men calles alkemye.
9. f140 Now ys to schoe phylosoferys stonys and the perfytnes of tham.
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