Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1487.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1487.
254 folios. Paper. Folio. 16th Century.
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1. f40v-52v Philippus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombastes, the philosopher, and doctor of bothe phissickes, intreating of hidden and secret philosophie.
2. f53-57v The seaven golden treatizes or chapters of Hermes Trismegistus.
3. f58r Hermes' Smaragden Table.
4. f58v-60v Hortulanus Commentarye upon the Smaragden Table of Hermes...
5. f61-2 Maryes Practize. Heer beginnethe the practice of Marye the prophetise upon the arte of alchymiae.
6. f62v-67v [Bloomfield's Blossoms, an alchemical poem written in 1557.]
7. f68-71 [A poem of the making of gold by the Hermetic art.]
8. f72 [Verses on the production of the Stone.]
9. f72 [A short poem of the work of the philosophers' stone.]
10. f72v-73v [An alchemical poem, on the preparing of the tincture.]
11. f73v-74 The Secrets of Philosophy [an alchemical poem beginning "Nowe shall I heer begynne, To teache thee a conclusion.]
12. f74v An other conclusion. First calcyne, and after putrifie.
13. f74v-75 An other conclusion. Take wynde, and waterm white and greene.
14. f75r Conclusio. I shall you tell withe hartie moode.
15. f76-81v A treatize of Thomas Aquinas, concerning the philosophers' stone.
16. f82-84v Laus Deo. A tractat of Thomas Aquinas, geven to his brother Raynald in the arte of alchymiae.
17. f90-98v An introduction to the devyne arte of alchimye, written by the wise and lerned Petrus Bonus Lombardus, Doctor of phissicke in the cittie of Feraria.
18. f100-106v A dialogue between Nature and a Disciple of Philosophie.
19. f107-110v A dialogue betwene the Master and the Disciple.
20. f112-114 Plinius upon the philosophers stone.
21. f115-119v A perfect booke of the stone.
22. f120-129 The epistle, or letter of Earle Nicholas.
23. f129v-171 Heer begynnethe the booke of the Rosarye of Phillosophers, and first the [23] names of suche as have byne artifficers in this arte, as Vincentius affirmethe in his booke intituled Speculum Naturale. The booke of the Rosarye of Philosophers, most dilligentlye compiled and brought into one volume.
[On f171v is a drawing of six men conversing, two of whom are kings. The 20 figures from the 'Rosarium Philosophorum' were pasted in the margins, but these have been removed.]
24. f172-180 The Marrowe of Alkemye, written to the Atchbisshopp of Yorke by George Ripley...
25. f180v-181v The Concordaunce between Raymond and Guido, made by George Ripley.
26. f182-196 The most excellent and tue booke of the ph'ers stone, compiled by Allamentae Lord Bernard Earle of the marsches of Treviers in Germanye, and was dedicated to the noble Doctor Thomas of Bononye, governour of France, and philosopher most learned, the 12 of Maij 1453.
27. f196r The mone is called of all things the first matter.
28. f196v-197 [A hypocritical apology for alchemical obscurity.]
29. f197v [Stockwell's Poem on the hiding of the elixir by Nature.