British Library MS. Sloane 3747.

British Library MS. Sloane 3747.
Vellum. Duodecimo. 131 folios. 15th Century.
1. A list of questions upon alchemical subjects, which the writer directs to be proposed to Paul of Hamburgh. f.1b.
2. An Alchemical treatise by George Ripley, on Raymund Lully. ff.3-14.
Begins. 'Ad Dei laudem, Amen. At the begynnyng understande that olde philosophers engyned to do by arte above the ground'.
3. 'Ad mineralia alteranda in terram cristallinam' [In English verse]. f.15.
Begins:
'To the making of this preciouse
Medecyn ye must
Take wynde and water, white and grene
And drawe therof a lak vergene'.
Ashmole. p.431.
4. Alchemical processes. ff.16-24.
5. Raymondes Accurtacions and other experiments. ff.25-55.
6. A treatise of the Philosophers' Stone. ff.56-60.
Begins: 'Truly this precious tresure may be found by grace and by kennyin and in right a light thyng of price'.
7. Tractatulus alchemicus. ff.61-65.
Begins: 'Audeant secreti [secreta] quo loquor et dilecti verba orie mei'.
8. An alchemical treatise, in the form of a dialogue between a master and his disciple. ff.66-71.
Begins: 'Discipulus. Now I pray you that I may questen with you to have knowlegge of errors that I have hadde'.
9. Verus alchemici. f.72.
Begins: 'Est firma tinctura latens in igne permansura'.
10. Tractatulus Honoricii Papae. ff.73-80.
Begins: 'Honoricius papa dicit. Audi fili mi discipliman Aristotelis patris tui, et scias Aristotelem patrem fuisse philosophorum'.
11. Tractatus alchemicus, cui titulus 'Sphaera inferioris astronomiae'. f.81.
Begins: 'Spera inferiois astronomie premonstrata et theoricalis est et practicalis docensqualiter altitudo, profunditas et duo latera lapidis occulti'.
12. Cantilena alchemica. ff.84b-87.
Begins: 'En philosophancium haec in cantilena
Dans archana concino voce cum amena'.
13. Treatise of the transmutation of metals. ff.88-93.
Begins: 'Here with the leve of Almighty God I will opyn tp you the dores of grace with the Keyes of philosophie'.
14. 'To drawe quintessence of Antimony'. f.94.
15. Processus Alchemici. ff.96-101.
16. Treatise of the Philosophers' Stone; in verse. ff.102-105.
Begins: 'As the philosopher in metheors doith write
That the likeness of bodies metallyne be not transmutable'.
17. Alchemical Verses. f.105.
Begins: 'Bothe man and woman God hath wrought'.
In Ashmole, p.427.
18. Treatise of the Elixir, in verse. f.106b.
Begins: 'Take erth of erth, erthes broder'.
Printed under the Title of Pearce the Black Monke upon the Elixir, in Ashmole p.269.
19. Alchemical verses. f.108.
Begins: 'Of this matter to you most clere'.
Ashmole, p.428.
20. Dialogue 'inter philosophum patrem et ejus filium'. [In English verse]. ff.110-115.
Begins: 'When Sol is in Aries and Phebus shynyth bright'.
Printed with variation under the title of The Mystery of Alchymists, composed by Sir George Ripley', in Ashmole, p380.
21. Process of the Philosophers' Stone, in verse. f116.
Begins: 'Of Spayn take thou thy clere light
The redde goumme that ys yn ytt so bright'.
Printed with variations under the title of 'the work of Rich. Carpenter', Ashmole, p.275.
22. Alchymical processes, in Latin and English. ff.117b-131.