Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1478.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1478.
135 + 28 + 104 folios. Paper. Folio. 16th Century.
I. 1.39. f1-60v [Recipes, alchemical processes and experiments, notes and short extracts from alchemical works. In Latin and English.]
II. 1. f65-72 [An alchemical tract, beginning with 'Hermes wordes in the fourth chapiter'.]
2. f90b [Translation of Norton's Latin prologue to his Ordinall.]
3. f90v-94 Certayne principall Questions drawen oute of Raymundes Questyonary.
4. f94-96 Here beginith the Privitie or Secrete of Avicen upon the declaratione of the philosophers' stone, translated out of Latine into Yngyshe by Robert Freelove Clerke to the Marchaunt Adventures, in December Anno 1550.
5. f96-98v Of the phylosop[h]ers' mercury.
6. f98-99 Of the essence or beinge of thinges.
7. f99-100 The werke of syllver after Rasys.
8. f100-102 The Theoryck of Janus Lacinius declaryng ye sence of Raymunde in his Epistel of Accurtation.
9. f102-105v, 73-79v In the name of oure Jhesus Christe here beginneth the Lapydary of Raymunde Lullye.
10. f79v-89v, 106r [A translation or abridgement of a tract of Lull beginning, "In the beginninge you shall understand that olde ph'ors agreed to gethers to do by arte".]
11. f106v-108 Incipit epistola mistica et vera Magistri Arnoldi de Villa Nova, et dicitur Flos Florum super tuam artem.
12. f108-118 Here beginnith the mervelous Conninge of Astrology... by Ph[t]olomeus...
13. f120-121 To know ye intente of the querente... [Geomancy]...
III. f125-129 Fama Fraternitatis, or a discovery of the laudable Order of the Rosie Crosse... [and] Confessio Fraternitatis... [with] A preface to the wisedome desireous reader. [Written at the time of James or Charles I, on the last leaf is the name of Richard Joylife. Articles 28 and 29 of MS. Ashmole 1459 seem to have been transcribed hence by Ashmole.]
f131-135 [Recipe, alchemical notes by Forman, and summary of an alchemical work.]
IV. 1. f1-6v A Compend of Alchemie, of ye most learned English Philosopher Jhone Garland: or, his Comentaries about the mistrie, upon ye Smaragdine Table of Hermes Trismegistus. The prayer of Jhone Garland, or Hortulanus.
2. f6v-10v The expostione of Mr Arnold de Villa Nova, a very famous philosopher, upon ye Commentaries of Hortulane.
3. f10v-14 An expositione of divers words of one significatione in ye arte of Chemistrie, by Jhone Garland, a most learned English Philosopher.
4. f14v-16v A litle booke of Jhone Garland... concerning ye praeparatione of the elixir.
5. f17-27v The booke of Jhone Garland... concerning mineralls.
6. f27v-28v The lyfe of Jhone Garland, a most excellent philosopher [translated from Bale, 'De Scriptoribus Britannicis'.]
IV. f1-2 [Schema in which the coelum philosophorum is shown through circular figures. Ripley's Wheel diagram?]
f3 [Alchemical notes and fragments apparently by T. Charnock.]
f4 [Recipe.]
V. 1. f10-25 The French Alchimie. Wherein is contained the right and true composition of the elixers, both white and red, with the making of the great stone of the philosophers as it was trewlie taught in Paris by a father unto the son, and perfectlie conclude[d] many yeares past by John Fanuere, and now turned into English by a Lover of the said Science, to the honor of God and to the help of the poor.
2-3. f25-26 [Two recipes.]
4. f27-35v An extract out of Dr Homodeus MS. De Elixire Solis medicina universali. i.e. Of ye tincture of gold, separated from its body and turned to a celestiall and spirituall nature called a quintessence, wch is ye aurum potabile.
VI. f42-96v [Samuel Norton] Ramorum Arboris Philosophicalis [in three books]
[The author's own copy.]
f96v-102 [Samuel Norton] Tractatulus primus de considerationibus multiplicum verborum antiquorum philosophorum.
f102-104v [Samuel Norton] Trac[ta]tulus secundus, indicans methodum philosophorum operis Saturni.