British Library MS. Sloane 3170. Paper. Duodecimo. 105 folios. Beginning of 16th Century. 1. Sir George Ripley's Poem, entitled the Compound of Alchymie, with the Recapitulation and Admonition. ff.2-51. Wanting the 'Epistle to King Edward the Fourth'. Printed in Ashmole, p.107. 2. Table of the contents of the first four chapters, or gates, of Ripley's Compound of Alchemy. f.52. 3. Alchemical Processes. ff.53-62. 4. An Alchemical treatise; apparently imperfect at the beginning and end. ff.63-79. The first chapter which occurs has the title 'Of causes of Sublimacion off Spirits'. It begins: 'Folonyng owr perpus, wat cause eas of fyndyng of a sublimacion off spirits'. 5. Fragment of a chemical treatise, compiled apparently from the work of Cardan. ff.80-82. 6. Prophetical inscription copied from a 'wyndowe in glasse in the monasteri of Seynt Edmondesbury att the dissolution of the house; and after by Sir John Eyer Esquier cause to [be] paynted as you se, in all poyntes like to same'. f.84b. 7. Fragment of an alchemical treatise: apparently a portion of that described above, art 4. ff.86-105. Begins: 'We have provyd spiritts to be likned most to bodys'. Title of following chapter: 'An unyversall sermon of preparacion off imperfytt bodys'. Begins: 'Of this that we have said afore itt schewill what itt to felle, and what is to lytyll'.