British Library MS. Sloane 2174. Paper. Folio. 140 folios. 16th and 17th Centuries. 1. A collection of alchymical tracts and observations in the same handwriting as the preceding volume; the following may be particularly noticed:- a. The rules of canons of philosophy. ff.1-6. b. A treatise upon the philosophers' stone. ff.9-29. Begins: 'many bothe wise and excellent lerned men.' c. Extract taken out of Ventura's work, de ratione conficiendi Lapidis philosophici (?). ff.30-39. Title: 'What regiment in special is necessary for art taken out of Ventura.' d. 'Clavicula Lullii quae et apertorium dicitur, in qua omnia quae in opere Alchimiae requiuntur aperte declarantur.' ff.40-44. Begins: 'Nos appellavimus opus hoc nostrum claviculam qui sine hoc.' e. A treatise on Alchymy, imperfect at the beginning. ff.45-56. Chap. I. 'Of myneral stone - Wyth the helpe of God let us prosede, but because there are things whereof...' f. A treatise entitled 'The Rosarye.' ff.57-73. Begins: 'All the workes of divine goodness be circular and perfect rounde.' g. The compound of Alchymy, by George Ripley, imperfect at the beginning. f73b-85. It begins with the eighth stanza of the preface: 'Like as of one masse was made all things.' h. A few stanzas of the Epistle of George Ripley to King Edward IV, prefixed to his Compound of Alchymy. f.85b. 2. The ordinall of Alchymy by Thomas Norton, with the preface. ff.89-116. Printed in Theatrum Chemicum Edited Ashmole, p.6. 3. A poem of Alchymy, imperfect at the end. ff.117-139. Begins: 'This seyence bearithe her name by a King Callyd Alchimus without any lesing A glorious prince of most noble mynde His noble vertews hope him this arte to finde.'