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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1507. 254 folios. 1. ff6-81 'Speculum Philosophiae Johannis Dastini.'
2. ff82-109 Theriaca Divina Benedicti [Cirencestriensis].
3. ff109v-120 'Medulla Warchadumiae' [Ripley's Marrow of Alchemy, translated into English].
4. ff121-128v 'In the name of Christ it is begun on his day 1571. Glorious Lord with the vertue of thy high power and thy infinite goodness, I begin this Book of ye Secretes of Nature and of the Quintessence, which giveth doctrine of the drawing out thereof, and application to the bodies of men.' [Transcribed from a 'MS: penes Doctorem Floode [Fludd], N.2. fol.'.]
5. ff129-134v 'The Booke of Diffinitions of Raymonde [Lully]. Chaos is a generall confusion.'
6. ff135-149v 'A booke of the Arte Fusorie, very profitable and excellent to confounde the foolish sophisters and all such as will not beleive noe such science to be true, but with their doted heddes dispraise it.'
7. ff150-156v 'An Epistle of Barnard of Trevire to a reverend Dr. his learned freind in the Dutchie of Burgundie.'
8. ff158-181 'Benjamin Lock his Picklock to Riply his Castle' [With a preface by Dr. Arthur Dee.] 'This booke I received from Mr. Heriot, at Sion House, who for many yeares instructed the Earle of Northumberland in the mathematicks, when he lived in the Towre. Anno 1602: June 6.'
9. ff183-231 'Truth's Golden Harrow': a defense of alchemy, by Dr. Robert Flood [Fludd], against a book intitled 'The Tillage of Light'.
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