Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1485.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1485.
97 + 97 + folios. Paper. Folio. 16th and 17th Centuries.
[Over the first page is the autograph of 'Patricius Sanders, Londini, 1606.]
I. 1. p1-11 Breviloquium Baconis.
2. p11-12 Elixer album secundum Rogerum Bacon.
3. p17-60 Liber congelationis.
4. p60-69 Sermo in argento vivo.
5. p69-72 Dicta Hermetis.
6. p72-73 [Verses on the stone, and a verse from Rasis.]
7. p74-78 Incipit Centimetrum problematum occulti occultorum.
8. p78-81 [Six 'dispositions' or alchemical operations.]
9. p81-88 [A tract drawn from diverse books.]
10. p 89-93 Ad cognoscendum et eligendum argentum vivum pulcherrimum, artificiale et minerale, naturale, fixum et non fixum, utile ad hoc opus.
11. p93-108 Preparatio et mundificatio ar. vivi, secundum Practicam Auream. [And other works - 'Breviarium Joh. Pauperis', Arnoldi de Villa Nova 'Rosarium philosophorum', Philippi Ulstadii 'Celum philosophorum' and Geber.]
12. p117-129 Incipit liber qui dicitur Speculum de secretis secretorum secundum Rogerum Bacon.
13. p130-132 [Appendix to the book of Bacon, or a commentary on the same matter.]
14. p132-144 De tribus dimentionibus corporum .s. altitudo, latitudo, et profunditas. [Concerning the composition and transmutation of metals.]
15. p144-146 Incipit ratio secunda, cum Dei auxilio.
16. p147-172 Liber de separatione salium, secundum Rogerum Bacon.
17. p173-188 Liber Aquarum. Libelli hujus aquarum xii series hisce splendet titulis.
II. f1-97 [Alchemical and medical miscellany, transcribed from various books by Theodoricus Gravius, partly in latin and partly in Dutch. The contents includes 'Pupilla Riplaei', 'Epistola totam artem continens, G. Riplaei', 'Tractatus de terra terrarum Georgii Riplaei'.]
III. 1. f1v [List of 72 names of alchemical writers.]
2. f3-46 The 12 Gates of Sr George Ripplye Channon of Brillington, otherwise called his Compound of Alchymye.
3. f46v The Vision of Sr George Ripley channon of Briddlington.
4. f45-47 [Short verses on alchemical subjects.]
5. f47v-48 An Allegorye supposed to be made by Thomas Norton [actually a poem ascibed to Pearce the Black Monk.]
6. f48v-50 Verses of an unknowen author.
7. f51v-54v Ripley his booke unto King Edwarde ye iiijth.
8. f55 The Dreame of Sr George Ripley channon.
9. f55v-56v Certayne verses of an uncertayne aucthor.
10. f56v-58v Blumfield's {Bloomfield] Blossoms. [Incomplete copy.]
11. f59-68 Breviloquium Johannis Pauperis [in English.]
12. f69-88 The Marrowe of George Rippleye.
13. f88-90v [Alchemical precepts of Ripley. Same as MS. Ashmole 1486, V. 3.]
14. f91-93v Praefatiuncula Georgii Rippley in Pupillam Alchimiae.