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British Library MS. Sloane 2573. Paper. Folio. 60 folios. 17th Century. A volume of papers, entitled by Sir Hans Sloane, 'Rich. Jones Collections about Alchymy, etc'.
1. 'Verba Aristaei patris ad filium ex caractere et idiomate Schitico-Latino rithmo donata'. f.2.
Begins: 'Rerum tibi omniium jam cognitione
Explanata vivendi atque ratione'.
2. Portions of a treatise on the art of transmuting metals, with processes, etc. ff.3-52.
3. Fragment of an alchemical treatise in verse. ff.53-57.
Ending: 'But earths refined made pure by stars and sun,
Which matter turns to light and light infuse'.
4. 'Mr Harris 'process for fixing [Mercury] into [Gold]' communicated to him by an Italian painter, Peter Gonsalvo'. f.52.
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