Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1480.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1480.
95 + 11 + 26 folios. Paper. Folio 15th and 16th Centuries.
I. [16th Century. Some of these items are in the hand of T. Robson.]
1. f2 [Anonymous alchemical work.]
2. f3 The worke of B. Take the bodye that you knowe and dissolve it.
3. f3v A Vision [G. Ripley.]
4. f3v-4 [Alchemical poem.]
5. f5-8 Heare I wyll unlok the dorys of grace wt the keyes of philosofi...
6. f8-9 [Recipe.]
7. f9 [Alchemical notions, in verse and prose.]
8. f9v-12 Visio [John Dastin.]
9. f12 [Recipe.]
10. f12v [Richard Carpenter] Off the sunne take the lyghght, The red gum yt ys so bryght.
11. f13 [An allegory of the white and the red stones.]
12-15. f13v-15r [Verses from the Ripley Scroll.]
16. f15r [Verses ascribed to 'Fryer Bacon'.]
17-20. f15r-16r [Various recipes.]
21. f16-18v The philosofers heaven [illustrated by circles, verses and descriptions.]
22-39. f19-45v [Various short works, recipes, short verses, etc.]
40. f46-48 Here foloweth ye Practysee of ye ryall flower.
41. f48 [Recipe.]
42. f48v-59 Philorcium of George Ripley.
43. 59v The making of our stone [part of Pearce the Black Monk's verses.]
44. f61r This is a perfect figure of the arte.
45. f61v-62 [The commendatuion of Mercury, part of Pearce the Black Monk.]
46. f62-68 [Dastin's Dream, translated into English.]
47. f68 [Recipe.]
48. f68v-81 [An alchemical poem, compiled from 'Raymonde Lulle in his Theoricke'.]
49. f81 [Recipe.]
50. f81v-82 [Fragment.]
51. f83-89 Nowe here flooowethe ye Mirrour of Alkemy, ye which speaketh of 4 wordes as here after foloweth.
52. f89-91 Prefatiuncula G. Ripelay in Pupillam Alchimiae.
f91-3 Practica.
53. f93v-95 Here followeth the Opening of the Secrets of Secrets, done by art of philosophie.
II. [15th Century. First 59 folios lost.]
1. f60 [Anonymous alchemical tract.]
2. f60v-61 [Treatise named as 'Turba Philosophorum'.]
3. f61v-64v In hac tabula sunt sex spere depicte [but with no 'table'.]
4. f65-69v Incipit epistola accurtacionis lapidis philosophorum, Raymundi [Lull], ad Regem Robertum...
5. f70-71 [Treatise concerning the operation for the elixir.]
III. [16th Century.]
A. 1. p1-2 [Sir Edward Kelly's verses to his friend.]
2. p3 [Extracts in English, from 'The Golden Chayne of Philosophie, per Raymonde Lullij'.]
3. p4 [Extract from Norton's Ordinall.]
B. 1. f1-2 [Fragment of a work by Lull.]
2. f2-5 Vade Mecum Raimundi Lullij artis compendiosae.
3. f5-6v Arcanum philosophorum ex saturno, ut facias aurum perfectum [with other experiment of Guilielmo Gratoroli.]
4-5. f7-8v [Translated extracts from the writings of Guido de Montano and Raymond Lull.]
6. f9-15v [George Ripley's Medulla Alchimiae, translated into English.]
7. f16-19 [Translation into English of 'Pupilla Alkimie Georgij Ripleye'.]
8. f19 Secretum secretorum, et lapis philosophorum.
9-16. f19v-26 [Alchemical recipes and experiments, also a table of the Moon.]