Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1492.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1492.
109 pages + 18 + 14 folios + 211 pages. 16th and 17th Centuries.
I. p1-8 Opus expertum Parisijs: et ab [authore] ipso, Comiti Contigiano exhibitum: anno Domini 1540 [Concerning the projection and multiplication of the hermetic medicine, with notes by John Dee.]
II. 1. p17 Mr Casseei, a prisoner in the cownter in Woodstreet, who dothe make perfett silver at all trials.
2. p21-35 [An alchemical work in twelve chapters, beginning, "To make a copell in hast, for small workes.."]
III. p45-64 Accurtationes et Practica Reymundi [in English.]
IV. p77-96 [Alchemical verses, collections, observations, and recipes, in English and Dutch.]
V. 1-3. f3-5 [Recipes in English.]
4. f6v The true matter of our quintessence otherwise called our heaven.
5. f6v To gild without [gold].
6. f6-11 [An alchemical treatise in seven chapters by Johannes Semeeres.]
7. f11v-15 [Recipes.]
8. f16-17 [Alchemical processes or experiments.]
9. f18 [Explanations in cypher of 21 characters used in this and other alchemical books.]
VI. f1-7 Incipit liber Alphidii philosophi. Ut enucleatius intelligas me loquentem volo ut scias de qua [materia].
f9-14v [Notes of Richard Napier.]
p1-3 [Recipe.]
p5 [Catalogue of licenses for practicing the art of alchemy, made by Ashmole.]
p9-16 [Exact notices of 32 Latin alchemical tracts contained in 'Dr. Flood's MS.']
f19v [List of 55 'Authors cited in the [same] manuscript, Codex veritatis, vel Turba philosophorum.]
p17-18 A catalogue of severall manuscript peeces, bound up together, and marked number 4 in 4to; in which Charnock hath scattered many noates.
VI. 1. p29-39 De lapide philosophico, quas conditiones habet, et per quae signa cognosci possit [Addressed 'To Mtris Barkley'.]
2. p39-40 [Verses addressed to the same lady.]
VIII. p45-84 [Recipes, some collected and written by Richard Napier, with extracts from works of John Dastin. Includes a note in Latin by Theodorus Gravius.]
p85-93 Regulae seu canones aliquot philosophici, de lapide philosophico.
p93-5 Johannis Pontani, summi philosophi, epistola, in qua de lapide quem philosophorum vocant agitur.
p96 Philosophorum ignes sunt quatuor. Primus aqua.
p96 De aquis mercurialibus tractatulus. Vera aqua.
p103 [Preface to a certain work 'Hermeticarum musarum cultoribus'.]
p105-6 [Letter from Theodorus Gravius, to Dr G. Hakewell?]
p109 [Letter from Richard Napier, to Dr G. Hakewell?]
p107,111,113 [Chemical experiments, partly in German and partly in English.] p118-120 [Letter of Edm. Dean, to Gravius.]
p121-122 [Alchemical experiments in English.]
p123 To make al maner of coyned gold to come to his coolor without offence of the lawes.
p125 [A fragment of an epistle on alchemy, 'To the worshipful mayster Elles, Prior of Lyse'.]
p126 [Part of an English translation of the 'Visio' of John Dastin.]
p127-130 Pearce the Black Monk, upon the Elixir [Verse of 173 lines.]
IX. 1. p130 A vessell of circulation, with blind head of the owne. [In the handwriting of Christopher Taylour.]
2. p131-138 Tractatus compositus super lapidem philosophorum, per quendam philosophiae discipulum, et fuit missus excellentissimo domino Regi Aragon. Martino, anno 1349, et vocatur Liber Phoenicis.
3. p139-140 [Short work beginning "Notandum est quod lapis philosophorum vocatur mineralis vegetabilis et animalis".]
4. p140-144 Liber fratris minoris Vincentij. Imprimis te scire oportet quod 3 sunt lapides et 3 sales.
5. p144-145 This is the matter yt I tolde you of, Mountaguh. Take or stone white and cleere.
6. p145-146 An Exposition of 'Earth earthes brother' [Pearce the Black Monk.].
7. p146-7 [Mystical pen drawings.]
8. p148-150 [A practical commentary on the verse 'Lapis occultis, et in fonte sepultus']
9. p150 [Schema for the joining of sustances, which involves alchemy. In Latin.]
10. p151-154 [A piece translatated from the Practica of 'Raymundus' Lull.]
11. p155-157 [Short alchemical tract beginning "In principio creavit Deus coelum et terram ex una massa".]
12. p157-175 A booke entitluled the Marrow of Alchemy, compiled by George Ripley, chanon of Bridlington, and translated by John Mayre, parson of Chipsted, 1552. The Preface.
13. p176-189 Philorcium Georgij Riplej. An abstract of George Ripley, called Philorcium Alchemiae, of the possibility of this science.
14. p190-196 Pupilla Alkimiae Georgij Ripla[e]j. Hic incipit praefatiuncula Georgij Bridlingtonensis in Pupillam Alchemiae [in English.]
15. p197-205 The worke of Sr Robert Grene.
16. p211 [Work on alchemy by Frater Anthony. In Latin.]
[Various loose papers at the end of the MS. including, recipes by Napier, alchemical verses, excerpts from a work entitled "Palingenius Expositus, de lapide philosophorum, ut ego conjicio", a recipe "How to draw out the essence of man's blood", and the beginning and colophon to a work entitled "Verbum Abbreviatum majoris Raymundi", dedicated to Roger Bacon.]