Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1490.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1490.
358 folios. Paper. Large Folio. 16th and 17th Centuries.
A. f2-5v [Various recipes, some in Italian.]
B. f3-4v [Work of Raimon Lull, beginning "Tue in virtute Dei A. accipe aurum, et projice ipsum in aqua vegetabili, de qua loquuti sumus in nostro Codicillo".]
C. Accurtationes et Pra[c]tica Raymondi. [In English, 16th Cent.]
D. f8-10v De lapyde phylosofico. When Sol ys in Aries and Phebus shyning bryghte.
E. f12-14 [An epistle concerning the Hermetic philosophy, in Italian.]
F.
1. f15-17 [Alchemical tract entitled 'Apcalypsis Spiritus Secreti'.]
2. f17v [Alchemical tract in Italian.]
3. f18-26 [Alchemical tract of eight chapters, in Latin.]

[A collection of transcripts, translations, and extracts of ancient alchemical treatises in the hand of Dr. Simon Forman, with many of his own notes and observations.]
1. f28-36v A dialogue of Egidius Devadius, betwene Nature and the Disciple of philosofie, of the serchinge out of the ph'ors stone.
2. f38r Notes, de lapide philosophico, out of Egidius Devadius.
3. f39r Optima sublimatio mercurij.
4. f40-41 Dicta philosophorum de lapide philosophorum.
5. f42-5 Anno Domini 1456. Mr. Robert Frimitor, otherwise called in Englishe Barkarborne in Sudfoke at Bungoy, begane this lyttle bocke, the wc is a treasure above treasures.
6. f46 Tractatus de mercurio ipso [English poem].
7. f46-7 Versus Aros.
8. f47 [Verses on the word which "Geber of Spain saith. Take the clear lighte, The red gum that shinethe brighte."]
9. f47 [Verses ascribed to "Arnold of the Newtoune [Villa Nova] on the great elixar".]
10. f49-52 [Alchemical processes.]
11. f53-54v Liber Ehenius [or] Opus de argento vivo solo.
12. f55v De ponderibus [Excerpts from a work written in 1487.]
13. f56 De rotatione rerum elementat. scriptum per Simonem Forman, 1593 [in English.]
14. f57-61v Incipit liber de Anaxagore, convertionis naturalis ["Copied out of Doctor Turners bocke, 1593... by Simon Forman.".]
15-16. f62 [Various alchemical processes.]
17. f66-74 Incipit tractatus intitulus Medulla Alkimiae, honorando patri et domino.. compilatus. [George Ripley.]
18. f74v Notes out of Anaxagoras de conversione naturali [in English and Latin.]
19. f75v [An unfinished glossary of the names of metals.]
20. f76v [Alchemical characters.]
21. f77r Tabula alpha[be]tic, sive charactera sign quam term. et verborum, et numerum.
22. f78-80 [Four chapters of work with alchemica processes.]
23. f81-84 [Dialogue between "Scoller and Master".]
24. f84 [A short instruction.]
25. f84v-86v Termes pertaininge unto the scyence of alkamy, here set in order, by the whiche youe shall the more perfectlyer knowe when yor worke is finished.
26. f87 Secreta secretorum.
27. f88 The wholl effecte in brife of this bock.
28-30. f89-92 [Recipes and alchemical processes.]
31. f93-100 [A translation of the Semita Recta of Albertus Magnus ?]
32. f101r [Extract from Albertus Magnus "De Sulphure".]
33-34. 94-97v [Alchemical recipes.]
35. f102-106 Incipit Prophetia Sibille.
36. f106 Precatio quae sequebatur [prophetiam Sibyllae].
37. f106v Prophecies found engraven in a marble stone of 8 cubits in breadth and 12 in length in St Dennis churchyard in Parris, in France, in Ebrue letters,... 1591.
38-42. f107-111 [Alchemical recipes.]
43. f112-113v Ad sciendum lapidem, ex quo philosophi faciunt lapidem philosophicum.
44. f 114-37v [Ripley's Compound of Alchemy.]
45. f137 Norton of magnesia.
46. f137 Howe thou shalte nip and shut up thi glas, so close that no ayer shall goe in nor out.
47. f138-139 De quatuor elementis et eorundem qualitatibus, et in se invicem permix[t]ionibus; ex Cornelii Agripae cap. 3...
48. f140-141 [A dialogue of the philosophers' stone between a 'Master' and 'Sonne'.]
49. f142-3 [Fragment of Pearce the Black Monk, and some other verses in English.]
50. f143v-148v In the vertue of allmighti God, Jesu Xrist, here beginneth the great and royall worke of the Quintessence of Mercury, thorowe the indusinge of Mr Arnold of Newtowne [Villa Nova].
51-60. f148v-153 [Various alchemical recipes and figures of alchemical apparatus.]
61. f154-157v Here followeth the Practice of Raymond Lully.
62. f161r [One of Lully's circular schemes with explanations by Forman.]
63. f162-3 Notes out of the bocke called Semita Recta, compiled by Raymon Lully.
64. f164 The saiinge of the Philo'rs, taken out of Norton's bock, in the which bocke they weare all pictured, and their posses.
65. f164 Vincent in his Naturall Glas [Extracts].
66. f165-166 The boocke and worke of Sr Robarte Greene, totchynge the ph'ors stone.
67-68. f167-170 The famouse worke of Mr Blundivele, of som called Sr Will'm Blundyvell, or Blomfild.
69. f171 Verses of Sr Edward Kelly 1589.
70. f173 Prologus Johannis de Meduno in cognicione lapidis occulti, quod librum sumo studio nequaquam florenti.
71. f176-178 [Excerpt from the first and second chapters of an alchemical book.]
72. f178 [Another excerpt.]
73. f179-180 Angelorum Opus, autore Hermete philosopho peritissimo.['Crowning of Nature' series, with circular spaces for the coloured figures. Note by Forman at the end, 'Every on of thes was collered in divers collers, even as the matter doth turne in to divers collers in workinge; but writtinge mor then is set downe her, was ther not'.]
74. f181-196 Primus liber loquitur de consideratione 5e escentiae omnium transmutabilium.
75. f196 [Appendix to the previous work.]
76. f196v [Alchemical experiments.]
77. f196v To cut a global glasse or any other glass of, and never breke it, but cut yt smooth.
78. f197-198v Incipit Medicina ad Rubeum, ex mercurio et sole similiter conjunctis.
79. f199-216 The 7 bookes of Aurelius Theophrastus Paracelsus, beinge a great student in philosofie and phisique, as totching the Nature of Thinges, and finally 2 bookes concerning man.
80. f217-220 The too bockes of Aurelius Paracelsus, as concerninge the nature of Man...
81. f221-236v The moste excellente and trewe boocke of the reverente doctor Almante and lord, Barnard Erell of Marche and Trevison, of the philossophers stone.
f237-240 [Various notes and short pieces by Forman.]
82. f242-276 The Testament of J.J. [John Jones, M.D. of Cambridge], D[octor] of Physick... devided into three principall bookes, that is to saye, Theorick, Phractick and Codecell.
83. f277-289 [The Ordinal of Alchemy by Thomas Norton.]
84. f291-293 [A large treatise on alchemy by Humfrey Lock, dedicated to "The right honorable and his singular goode lorde, Sr Will'm Cycill, Lord of Burg[h]lay [Burghley], knight of the order of the garter, and highe tresurer of England".]
85. f332-335v [Alchemical recipes collected by Forman.]
86. f336-342v [Alchemical poem entitled 'Pater sapientiae'.]
87. f343-345 Her followeth the Opininge of Secrets, done by the arte of ph'ye.
88. f350 A note of the bille and names of the thinges, that M' Parke was to bwy for Mulleneux, 1595...
89. f352 Forman. Preface, speaking in the bockes behaulfe.
f352 [Two alchemical experiments by Richard Napier.]

G. f348-349 The forme of an astronomical figure, wc was found uppon a stone diggd up amongst the old ruens at Missenden.
H. 1. f353 The coppy of a Dutch cypher, found inclosed in leade, and wrapped wthin many foulds of velvet; discyphered by Sr S: B: translated out of Dutch by Cornelius Dreble [Drebbel].
2. f354 Alchimisticum aenigma. We do give a comon thing of dere price unto a dragon.
I. f355 Explicatio aliquot verborum artis. 1. Liquor Altahest Paracelsi...
K. f357 [A descriptive catalogue of alchemical processes.]
L. f358 Dr. Whitmore's Receipt [a short process for making the stone.]