Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1415. 17th Century. 1. 'This coppy was found in the Abbay of Valeroyal in Cheshire, and is called the Chemist's Cumbate, or the contention betweene two Alchimists.' 2. 'The coppy of a learned letter written to an honourable freind' on alchemy, declaring that the art is real. 3. 'An Epistle apologeticall to a freind, concerning the author's practise', by John Donne. 4. 'Ripley his Compound of Alchimy expounded' by Sir Edward Kelley. 5. 'Tractatus de lapide Philosophico, Latinis versibus conscriptus, adjectis as marginem annotationibus que rem totam illustrant. Auctore Edoardo Cradocco'. 6. 'The Glory of Light: or a short treatise shewing Urim and Thummim to be made by art, and are the same with the universall spirit corporate and fixid'. 7. 'Translation of a book of the transmutation of metals, written in the time of Edward III by Cremer Abott of Westminster, a disciple of Raymund Lully'. 8. 'The Worke of Sir Robert Greene, Shewrly without any falshood the worke of alkamy is true, and not to be mocked and scorned att, as many a blind ass doth'. 9. 'Blundefielde his worke, to King Henry 8'. 10. 'A golden treatise of the great elixir, or stone of the philosophers'. 11. 'A Chimicall treatise of the ancient and highly illuminated philosopher, devine, and physitian, Arnoldus de Nova Villa,... printed in the yeare 1611', and here translated into English. [Most of this MS. is in the hand of Ashmole.]