British Library MS. Sloane 2194. Paper. Quarto. 91 folios. 17th Century. f1 [Short Verse] : 'In Mercurio Triumpho'. f3 [At top] : 'Collections and Treatises of Alchymy by Sir Hugh Platt'. [Short notes and recipes.] f5 'As long as the Temple of Jerusalem was in buyldinge so long will the stonne be in makinge'. [Short notes in English from various works, some in verse.] 1. 'Tabula smaragdina, or the table of emerald sayd to be found in the sepulcher of Hermes'. ff.10b. The Latin version was printed in octavo, 1608. 2. f11v-23r The Starr of the complexion of the perfect magistery of the secrets of the art of Alchemy, made by John Bumbelen of England, in the yeare of the Lord 1384 [appears to have been changed from '16--'] and dedicated to King Richard the second, in the eigth yeer of his raign.] [Preface and 12 chapters.] 3. 'A vision in a dream which Ben Adam had in the time of Rucharez's raigne, King of Adamah; published by Floretus a Bethabor - with another treatise of Frederick Gall his journey to the hermitage of St. Michael 1648'. ff.24-28. f28r-28v [Recipe.] 4. 'Questions in philosophie, with their aunswers moste secrett'. ff.29-45. Begins: 'Sir, I have commended to your worshipp a confirmation of those poyntes of philosophie that we latlye conferred upon touching the elixir'. f45v-47v [Recipes.] 5. 'A book named the breviary of Philosophie compiled by the unlettered scholler Thomas Charnock studious in the most worthy science of astronomie and philosophie A.D. 1557, 1 Januarii, et exscriptium 28 Martii 1601'. ff.48-57. Printed in Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum, p.291. 6. 'A booke of the spirits of planettes, composed by Theophilus Paracelsus, philosopher and phisitien'. ff.58-69. 7. 'Magnalia Dei optima maximi; or the privy seale of God's secrets, which upon paine of damnation is not unadvisedly to be broaken up nor revealed to any but with great care and many cautions'. ff.71b-72. 8. 'A book entitled Reformation of Errors, anonymo auctore'. ff.73-77. Title of first chapter: 'The opinions of sundry learned philosophers concerning the materialls whereof they made their elixir or philosophers stone'. Begins: 'Hermes sayth a body dissolved into water congealeth Mercury with a perpetual congealation'. 9. An Alchymical treatise entitled 'Mannah'. f.77b. Begins: 'I have purposed to myself to compose this short treatise having bin not onely an eye-witness but also an actor'. f87 [A note found written in the house of Sr John York.] f88-90 [Alphabetical index]. f91 [Recipes.]