British Library MS. Sloane 299.

British Library MS. Sloane 299.
Paper. Folio. 101 pages. 15th and 17th Centuries.
Formerly belonging to Gabriel Gostwick.
1. Chymical receipts. p.1.
2. Phillippi a Rovillasco Practica magni operis, translated into English, or 'the practise of the greate worke by the mouncke of Berrye.' p.3.
3. The Confession of Henry Khunrathe of Lippeswicke; in English. p.13.
Printed in German, Frankf. 1708.
4. 'The moste excellente and trewe booke of the reverent Doctor Almante and Lord Barnarde, Earle of Marche and Travison, of the philosophers' stone', with a preface. p.18.
5. A Poetical epistle by Humphrey Locke to Willam Cecil, Lord Burleigh, dedicating his collections of alchymy; in fifty-one stanzas. p.37.
6. Humphrey Locke's collections of alchymy. p.43.
7. A preface in verse to George Ripley's Castle, or compound of alchymy. p.83.
It begins: 'This is the waie to Ripplies castell.'
8. The way to calcine perfectly, in verse, probably by Humphrey Locke. p.83.
The verses begin 'First must thouy make the greene body cleane.'
9. George Ripley's Compound of alchymy. [Imperfect.] p.84.
Printed by Ashmole, p.109.
10. 'The standinge of the glas for the tyme of the putrifaction and congelation of the medicine.' etc., in five stanzas. p.98.
It begins, 'The glas with the medicine must stand in the fire.'
11. The sawes of philosophy, or alchymical maxims. p.98.
12. Several alchymical receipts. p.99.