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British Library MS. Sloane 2624. Paper. Oblong quarto. 29 folios. 17th Century. Bound with MS. Sloane. 3345.
Common-place Book of Edwards Edwards, 1675; containing:
1. 'Nicholas Flamell's Summary of Philosophy'. ff.2-9.
2. 'Thesaurus Thesaurorum; sive Medicina Aurea'; with the copy of a letter signed B addressed to Mr Bosvile, and acquainting him with the high value of the MS. ff.10-15.
Begins: 'many and great are the secrets of nature, and concerning them and the way to obtaine them the philosophers wrote much.'
3. Elegantiae quaedam de opere philosophico ex MS. Aquila Thuringi. f.16.
4. 'Ex epistolis Eduardi Kellii Angli, datis Trebone, 9 Augusti, 1597, et 20 Junii 1587'. ff.17-20.
5. Recepta chemica. ff.21-23.
6. 'The privy seal of God's secretts which upon pain of damnation is not unadvisedly to be broken up nor revealed, but with great care and many cautions'. ff.24-29.
Begins: 'To omitt circumstances, the first matter of which the philosopher's stone is to be had and taken.'
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