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British Library MS. Sloane 3633. Paper. Quarto. 73 folios. 16th and 17th Centuries. 1. English version of the Fons chemicae philosophiae, by Philalethes. ff.1-7.
Printed in Latin in the Musaeum Hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. Francofurt 1678, p799.
2. 'A short manuduction to the heavenly Rubie of the philosopher's stone, and the secret thereof', by Philalethes. f.7b-16.
Printed in Latin, as above p.775.
3. 'A coppy of verses found in a tombe, in a pot of oile, neare the town of Leek in Staffordshire'. f.16b.
Begins: 'When thousand, hundreds six and forty's two are gone'.
4. 'Ripley's Epistle to King Edward unfolded', exposition of George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy. f.17.
5. Notes taken out of John Rudolph Glauber's Colloquia nonnummorum Hermeticae Medicinae studiosorum. f.20.
6. Note 'taken out of the 2nd part of Pharmacopea Spagirica'. ff.23-33.
7. 'The book of the xii glasses of Hermes'. ff.34-47.
Begins: 'He whos father is a virgyn sayth; come my welbeloved that we may embrace'.
8. An alchemical process. [Imperfect]. f.47b.
9. 'Raimunde Lully his boke named the Light Mercuris'. ff.50-53.
Begins: 'In the name of God take cleare white wyne, stronge and odoryferouse-'
10. Various chemical and alchemical processes, from Paracelsus, Quercetanus, Rupescissa, Ulstadius, and others. ff.56-73.
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