British Library MS. Sloane 3738.

British Library MS. Sloane 3738.
Paper. Quarto. 89 folios. 17th Century.
1. 'Out of the booke called the revelacion of the secret spirit'. f.3b.
Begins: 'The stone is called by the philosophers by the name of quintessence'.
3. Johannis Dastyn libri quatuor intitulati Donum Dei. ff.23-35.
Begins: 'Omne datum optimum et omne donum perfectum deorsum est, descendens a Patre luminum'.
4. Ejusdem Epistola as dominum Neapolionem Cardinalem. f.35b.
Begins: 'Testificatur as credendum'.
5. Ejusdem carmen de lapide philosophorum. f.36b.
Begins: 'Certus er expertus lapis est in mente repertus'.
6. Ejusdem libri duo de cognitione lapidis. ff.37-46.
Begins: 'Cum gaudeant uti brevitate moderni'.
7. Quaedam de Mercurio. f.46.
8. Versus sex de gradibus ignis. f.46.
10. Tractatus Dunstani Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis de lapide philosophorum. ff.60-66. Exstat impress inter Opera Georgii Riplaei in 8co Cassel, 1649.,p.240.
11. Thesauririlla naturae in qua de extractione mummiae spiritualis et mysterio magico arboris scientiae boni et mali tractatur, de quibus Theophrastus in libello de tempore et in libello de origine scientiae agit; cum prooemio. ff.66b-71.
Prooem begins: 'Perfecta sapientiae in hoc seculo constit in cognitione sui ipsius'.
Chap. I begins: 'Quatuor genera mummiarum'.
12.Short analysis of Glauber's work of the philosophical furnaces, divided into five parts. f.72.
13. Some extracts from Glauber's work de auro potabili, etc. ff.72-74.
Printed in octavo, Amsterdam. 1651.
15. The Epistle dedicatory of L.C. physician to a chemical treatise, 1647. [In Latin]. f.74b.
Begins: 'Laboranti mihi pro ratione professionis meae'.
15. The treatise of Jehan de Mehun entitled, Le Miroir d'Alquimie. f.75.
Printed in Octavo, paris, 1612.
16. Ejusdem Johannis Mehun demonstratio naturae. ff.77-79.
Exstat impress in Museum Hermeticum, Frankof. 1677. p. 147.
17. Apotelesmata philosophorum Mercurii triumphantisde summa medicina, Ariopono Cephalo auctore,; cum ejusdem notitia brevi praemissa. ff.81b-85.
Mercurius Triumphans exstat impress in quarto, Magdeburgi, 1601.
18. Excerpta quaedam ex Bernardi G. Penoti Apologia. ff.85b-89.
Exstat impress. in octavo, Francof. 1600.
Reversing the volume-
19. Some observations upon a worke of Pierre Bernaud, called the Grand Esclaricissment. f.80b.