Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1407.
[9 MSS. bound together.]
I. 1. p1-10 [Various receipts.]
2. p10-16 'The Vission of John Dastine'.
3. f1-5 'An hundred and 29 expositions of Geber and Lully, set downe by an unknowne authour, for the better understanding of ther bookes.'
4. f5v-162v 'The first Dialogue, unfoulding the darke misticall speches of Geber in his bookes; [between] Demogorgon and Geber.'
5. f163 'Of the white Elixir.'
II. 1. pp1-8, f1 'The booke of our proceedinge in the workes [of alchemy in] 1611', by Thomas Robson.
2. f4-5 [13 receipts.]
3. f6-8 'A decleration of certaine Preceptes or commandements to be observed in the arte of alchimye, by all practitioners herin...'
4. f10 'The sayings of Guido.'
5. f10-16 'The Kye of Raymond Lully called his Apertory...'
6-114. f16v-70 [Alchemical receipts.]
III. 1.f76-8 'A medicine taken forth of Sr Edward Veer's booke.'
2. f79-80v Raymundus [Lully epistle] to King Edwarde of Woodstocke.
3. f81-83 [Receipts.]
IV. 1. p1-16 'Isake Holandes his great worke' [or the 'Vegetable Book'.]
2. p17-24 'Samner his worke of the white and red elixir.'
3. p24-27 'The vigitable of George Riplye to the Archbishop of Yorke.'
V. p1-23 'Here begeneth a part [namely chapters 27-39] of the booke of Mercuries, which I have read, of the Testament of Raymond Lully...'
VI. 1. p1-18 [Select passages concerning the working of the white and red stones, from the books of Dunstan, Ripley and S. Norton.]
2. p18-24 'The Elixir of lyfe, after Mr. Norton, forth of George Riplyes bosom-booke...'
VII. 1. p1-16 'To ye glorie of allmightie God hyer followeth the philosophers mercury...'
2. p17 [Receipt.]
VIII. 1. p1-11 'The Merrore of Philosophy of Mr John Dastin, beinge the Rosary of Arnoldus...'
2. p12-17 'The worke of Johannes Bubellus, Englisheman, who lived in the yeare of our Lord 1384' [concerning the elixir].
IX. 1. p1-13 [A tract of the working of the philosopher's stone.]
2. p13-20 'Prefatiuncula G. Ripley in Pupillam Alchimiae.' ['Practica'.]
3. p21-24 'This that followeth is taken forth of the uncutt boke of Ripley' [Receipts.]