Cambridge, Trinity College MS. O.2.16.

Cambridge, Trinity College MS. O.2.16.
144+110 folios in two volumes. Paper. 200x159mm. 15th Century.
1. I. f1 Thomas Charnocke his book. [Recipes.]
2. f2v Aenigma de alchimie in verse dated 1572. 'When vii tymes xxvi.'
3. A collection of alchemical receipts of the 15th Century.
[8 leaves of 16th Century with rough coloured pictures, mostly in the inner margin.]
4. f25 A receipt concerning the sublimation of a toad with a picture.
5. f26 English lines by Charnock.
6. f27 Picture of Phoenix with English writing by Charnock.
7. f28 Shield.
8. f28v De lapide philosophico ceu de phoenice.
[in rhyming quatrains. With 12 marginal pictures.]
III. [15th Century collection of alchemical receipts, with insertions by Charnock.]
9. f66v English poem headed Notabili versus qd Ric Carpenter.
Of spayne take the clere lyzt
The rede gomme that ys so bryzt. [Theatrum Chemicum p 275]
II. 16th Century. On the flyleaf 'Liber GGeorgii Golde'.
Ao Dni 1539 scriptus erat libellus iste vsque as spheram.
10. f82 George Ripley's compendium of alchemy in English verse.
f127v [Diagram of a sphere covered with writing.] Thys Fygure conteynyth all our secretts both gret and small.
f131v Latin colophon 'M. qd. G. 2o die Aug. 1555'.
11. f133v Speculum Elementorum.
III. [15th Century.]
12. f14v 'Incognitus author'.
13. f19 Secretum Gilberti cardinalis.
14. f21 Experimentum profundissimum.
15. f23 Avicenna de origine lapidis (Archanum Avicenne).
16. f25v Bernardus de Gordonia de lapide philosophico.
17. f28v Speculum Bachonis.
18. f33 Another tract de lapide.
19 f38v Saphirus de lapide. Inc. liber intitulatius liber maiorum operum editus a mag. saphiro de diuersis modis etc.
20. f63 Interpretationes vocabulorum Arabicorum.
Hic inc. vocabula et interpretaciones nominum Grecorum et Arabico in arte alkimia.
21. f67 Practica Barnardi.
22. f69v Veri verissimum. [Receipts follow.]
23. f72v Principium rerum.
24. f74 Maria. Alumen de Hyspania.
25. f75 De Sale [in another hand].
26. f77 Inc. liber secretorum de voce Bubacari mahumetis filii. [in 12 chapters].
27. f108-110 Various receipts.