Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1451. 70 folios + 71-147 pages + 66 + 17 + 19 folios + 95 pages. 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries. [Six MSS. bound together.] I. (4). Distillatorium optimum pro aqua vite distillanda. 1. f1-57 Incipit liber de Famulatu Philosophie de quinta essentia. 2. f58-66 Incipit tractatus aquarum de Kyriana. 3. f66v-70v Sequitur tabula primi libri de famulatu philosophie... Sequitur tabula secundi libri de cura omnium egritudinum... Sequitur tabula tractatus aquarum de Kyriana. 4. p71-88 Sequuntur quedam secreta preciosissima a Secretis Secretorum extracta... Sunt autem tanquam summus thesaurus conservanda, quoniam sunt ex summis secretis secretorum Raymondi Lully. 5-11. p88-147 [Various recipes and notes, in Latin, French and English.] II. [15th Cent. with marginal notes by John Dee.] 1-85. 66ff [Various recipes, alchemical experiments, and notes from works by Morienus, Ortolanus, Hermes, Johannes de Meun, Brixham, and others. In Latin and English.] III. f3-12 [A 16th Century collection of extracts from divers authors, concerning the precepts of Alchemy, both in Latin and English, with some passages from Norton's Ordinall.] IV. [14th Cent.] 1. p1-32 [An alchemical tract beginning "... than kende worchith in a Ml. ger. And nevertheles we makyn no metals but kende doth this".] 2. p32-36 [Twenty eight maxims of alchemy, beginning "Oure Philors ston hath non propre name, but he is clepid diverse namys".] 3. p37-39 [Nine 'consilia' of alchemy, of which the preface begins "In principio nostri tractamus e[s]t sciendum quod ars alkae nobilissima et multum periculosa. V. [14th and 15th centuries. With some marginal notes by John Dee.] 1-30. p39-80 [Collection of recipes, alchemical experiments, notes, and short extracts from alchemical works, including some of Rasis, the Turba Philosophorum, Roger Bacon, Johannes Parisiensis. In Latin and English.] VI. p85-95 [A tract in English describing the process of obtaining the white medicine, for transmuting copper into silver.]