British Library MS. Sloane 3667.

British Library MS. Sloane 3667.
Paper. Large Folio. 188 folios. 17th Century.
1. Table of symbols denoting chemical substances. f1v.
2. Chemical and alchemical processes. f2-14.
3. 'The following letter, communicated to me by the most Serene Prince Frederick Duke of Holsatia and Sleswick, relates things strange and unheard of' - relating to the death of Master R.J. an alchemist. f15v.
4. Alchemical tables belonging to the work beginning at folio 31 in this present volume. f19-21, 24-28.
5. 'Tabula ostendens quomodo elementa insunt metallis actu quam potentia'. f22.
6. Table showing 'the proportion of metalls in their weight'. f22.
7. 'The Philosophers Great Worke named the Elixir'; a table of the various processes. f22v.
8. The laws and statutes of a Society founded by three Hermetick Philosophers. f 29v.
9. Samuelis Nortonii libri tres Tabularum Arboris Philosophicalis, sive Ramorum [Imperfect.] f31-44.
9. Samuelis Nortonii librorum Tabularum Arboris Philosophicalis exemplar aliud. f45-84.
10. Samuelis Nortoni tractatulus explicans 'obscura nominum et artium... multiplices ut labore facile et studio aperto poteris et ligere et intelligere philosophorum verba et eorum libros omnes.' f84v-87.
11. Samuelis Nortoni tractatulus indicans methodum philosophorum operis Saturni'. f88.
12. 'Preparation for to extract the sweete oile of Antimony.' f90.
13. A prayer to the Almighty 'At Bristowe anno 1578.' f90v.
14. 'The preface to the Medulla [Marrow of Alchemy] per G. Ripley' - addressed to George Nevil Archbishop of York, in English verse. f92.
Printed in Ashmole p589.
15. 'The Booke called the Marie [Marrow] of Alkemie, compiled by George Rypley, anno 1476'. f93-104.
Printed in Latin among Ripley's Works, Cassel, 1649, p122.
At end : 'Here endyth the treates called the Marye of Alkamye, compiled by George Rypley, the yere of our Lord 1476: and turned into Englyse by My Davye Whithede clarke, anno 1552.'
16. 'The Cortacyones and practis of Raymonde [Lully]' by George Ripley. f105-114.
Printed in Latin, under the title of 'Georgii Riplaei Angli Accurtationes et Practicae Raymundinae' among Ripley' Works, Cassel, 1649, p366.
17. Alchemical Processes. 16th Century. f115.
18. Alchemical Verses. 16th Century. f117.
Begins: 'I am Marcurye the myghtiest florum
I am Royall and rychest of all singulorum.'
19. The work of the elixir, in verse. 17th century. f188-120.
Printed under the title of 'Pearce the Black Monke upon the Elixir' in Ashmole p269, and in Latin prose under the title of 'Terra Terrae Philosophicae' in Ripley's Works, Cassel 1649, p314.
20. 'The openyng of the seacret of seacretts donn by the art of Philosophye.' f121v-123.
21. 'The coppye of an old booke which is thought to be the hand writtyng of Mr George Rippyle, Chanon; translated out of latten bye Samuell Norton, Esquyer, the vth of Feberary anno Domini 1573.'
Note in the margin: 'This bock semeth to be his bossom bock, or his bocke tht he daylly ussed.'
It contains the following:-
a. 'The concordance betwene Guido and Raymond Lulli.' f124.
b. Alchemical processes. f125v-130.
c. 'Notable rulles tayken out of Guido the Philosopher per G. R.' f130v.
d. An alchemical process by Raymund Lully, with an exposition by George Ripley. f132v.
e. 'The greate secrete, etc.' f134v.
f. Miscellaneous alchemical processes. f136v-140.
g. 'Of the stone, bothe of his dysposicyone and skyll with hym to make the elixer.' f141-145.
h. A table of the process for making the elixir, subscribed 'George Rypley, anno 1470'. f146.
i. A tincture to fix mercury, with other processes. f146v.
k. 'The visione of George Rypley, Chanon' in verse. f149.
Printed in Ashmole 374.
l. The 'Sayings' of Aristotle and Hermes, with 'A exposityone on the sayenges of Aristotle and Hermes aforesayd, by George Rypleye; as a concordance of thayre words.' f149v-157.
[A latin copy of the same work attibuted to Ricardus de Salopia is in MS. Sloane 3744.]
22. George Ripley's Epistle to King Edward the fourth, in verse: wanting the first nine stanzas. In the same handwriting as the foregoing. f157-159.
Printed in Ashmole , p109.
23. 'The Concorde of Philosophers'. In the same handwriting as the foregoing. f160.
24. 'The animalle stone.' In the same handwriting as the foregoing. f161v.
25. 'Memorandum that here followth serten cortecyons and other good nottes, which I had owt of the olde boeke of Mr George Rypley, which I had not in my coppye at Mr Belyngslys hand afor nowe'. In the same handwriting as the foregoing. f164v.
26. 'The scyance to drawe owt the vth obeynge of Mercury of vitrioles or of coperas; written by Johannes Rupecissa' with alchemical processes by Rypley and others. f167-187.
27. Medical receipts. f187v.