British Library MS. Sloane 2598. Paper. Oblong quarto. 137 folios. 16th Century. 1. The compound of Alchemy by George Ripley. ff.1-71. Printed in Ashmole. p.107. 2. 'The booke of Aqua Vitae everlasting'. ff.72-83. Begins: 'In the name of the Holy Trinitie, Amen. Brethren serching the syence of Alkamy, serche you no further, but only that the wyse philosophers hathe sought.' 3. Translation of the Testamentum of Raymundus Lully. ff.84-98. 4. 'The worke of crystall, berral, and corroll'. ff.99-110. Begins: 'Ryghte deare frende, ye shall understand that to the worship of God and for more understanding and knowing of Kyndes, althoughe I be unconning of the symple understanding of naturall philosophie', 5. Extract from an Alchemical treatise entitled 'Speculum Elementorum' in English. ff.110b-115. 6. 'A treatise of waters, and then of oylles, by Raymond' [Lully]. ff.115b-122. Begins: 'Son, ther be 2 waters mynerall, drawne out of one parte of nature, in the which consistethe all the secret of the mynerall stone'. 7. English translation of Raymond Lully's 'Apertorium de veri lapidis compositione'. ff.125-131. 8. A short extract from Raymund Lully's works. ff.132-133. 9. 'The alpha beta of Vade Mecum'. f.134b. 10. Essay on the alchemical principal - written in a more recent hand. f.137. The following note of the age of this Codex occurs at fol.136b: 'In the fyrst yere of the raygne of our soveraygne lady Elyzabethe, by the grace of God Quiene of Yngland France and Ireland, defender of the afythe, and in the Erthe the supreme head of the spiritualty and temporalty under God, etc, the xvi of Desembar, in the rere of Christes Incarnation 1558, was this booke made'.