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British Library MS. Sloane 2193. Paper. Quarto. 89 folios. 17th Century. 1. Treatise on the multiplication of metals; in question and answer. ff.1-17.
Begins: 'Quest: First shewe me in what thing, of what thing or by what thing is the medicine of multiplication of mettels to bee made'.
2. Alchymical treatise, taken from 'an olde unknowne manuscript'. ff.17b-18.
Begins: 'Ye brethren which seeke the secretes of nature, viz. 2 tinctures, white and red, which after the opinion of philosophers is not had without corporall ferment'.
3. Alchymical extracts from Longinus Caesar. ff.19-39.
4. English version of George Ripley's Philorcium Philosophorum. ff.40-46.
The original is printed among his Works, Ed. Cassel, 1649. p.179.
5. Notes out of Alexander de Suchten. ff.46-52, 80.
6. 'A treatise written in the Caldean tongue anno 1027, and translated into Latin'. ff.53.
Begins: 'The greate elixir is made of 2 extreames, the extreames are crude and cocte'.
7. Various alchymical receipts. ff.54-56.
8. 'Notes out of Paracelsus his 7 bookes de natura rerum'. ff.57-63.
9. 'An excellent discourse of the old philosophers'. ff.64.
Begins: 'The olde philosophers did counterfeit the worke of nature choosing clene earthes both white and red'.
10. Extracts from Joachimus Tankins. ff.66-69.
11. Alchymical notes and receipts. ff.70-89.
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