British Library MS. Sloane 1744.

British Library MS. Sloane 1744.
Paper. Quarto. 212 folios. 17th Century.
Written by Thomas Robson.
1. 'Cornelius Alvetanus Azus Rodius off makinge the divine elixir or the philosopher's stone, to the moste excelent and most industrious Empress Elizabeth of England, France and Ireland Quene' f4-8.
2. 'Charitas mundi; and excelent treatis givinge light to the right understandinge and practice of this science of Alchymy, etc.' f9-13.
3. Speculum veritatis, or a disputation betwene Mary the sister of Moyses, and Azos Kinge of the Grecians'. f14-17.
4. Some alchymical processes 'taken forth of a little latine booke 1662'. f18-22.
5. The admonition of Sir Robert Greene. f22v-29.
6. 'The worke of mercurye'. f29v-32.
7. The work of the Abbot of Ramsie upon Aqua viventis, 'Taken forth of Thomas Came his Booke.' f33-36.
8. George Ripley's red and white work. f36v-39, f54v-57.
9. The worke of a Moore, being a collection of alchymical processes.f39-42.
10. 'The worke of a Jewe, a note taken forth of Sir Edward Vere his book'. f43-48.
11. 'To make [Mercury] into water by itself by George Riplie', taken from his Marrow of Alchymy. f49-50.
12. The worke on Saturn. f51-54.
13. 'George Ripley [his practise] of the first practisinge in the stone Rebus'. f59-70.
14. 'Of the seven principal degrees of Alchymie pertaininge to transmutation, or the philosopher's stone'. f73b-74.
15. 'The philosopher's heaven'. f75-77.
16. An anonymous treatise on the Philosophers Stone. f78-85.
begins: 'The vessel of our stone in whome all the magistery'.
17. A short treatise on red lead. f86-90.
18. 'A perfetct fuger [figure] of the arte'. f91.
19. 'Of the errores of certeyn practisers in this arte'. f91v.
20. 'The secret of secretts'. f92v-95.
21. 'The separation of elements'. f95v-96.
22. 'For the Kepinge of the stone or elixir'. f99.
23. 'The famous worke of Mr Blundevill', a poem in seven line stanzas, upon the Philosophers Stone. f101-109.
24. The second chapter of George Ripley's work entitled 'Medulla philosophiae chemicae, treating of the vegetable stone'. f110-112.
25. 'The most excelent and true book of the reverend Dr Alemant and Lord Barnard Earle of Travisan of the philisophers stone leaving the first second and the third and beginning with the fowerth part', with some other extracts from the same work. f113-114, 96v.
26. 'How the philosophers stone ought to be wrought'. f124v-128. It is inscribed 'Domino Regi Martino Aragoniae anno 1399'.
27. 'Howe the planets doe rule the mettalls and what mettalls the cause or signifie severally in every signe.' by Mr Forman. f128-132.
28. 'Another white and red worke out of Riply'. f132-133.
29. Alchemical extracts apparently from Raymond Lully's works. f133v-147, 149v-155.
30. 'Hic incipit Mariae Phophetise de Elixer' in English. f148-149.
31. Alchymical processes. f155-160.
32. Extracts apparently from the work of Johannes Isaacus Hollandus entitled Opera mineralia et vegetabilia. f160-168.
33. 'Saminez his worke' upon Alchymy. f169-172.
34. 'The vegetable of George Ripley' [imperfect] f172v-174.
35. Various alchymical extracts and process. f174v-192, 203-212.
36. 'A treatise of the most excelent Mr Dunstan bishope of Canterbury a true philosopher concerning the philosopher's stone'. f192v-203.