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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bodley Rolls 1 (2974). Parchment roll of nine membranes in a cloth box. 5700x590mm. mid 15th Century. [Large coloured drawings: part of the first membrane of the scroll is wanting.
A version of the Ripley Scroll, a description of the process of making the Philosopher's Stone or Elixir of Life, in English verse, with large coloured drawings and figures, often with Latin titles: at the end is a figure of George Ripley, the reputed author of the whole. Most of the English, which is in red, and perhaps late 15th or early 16th century, has been copied again later in the same century in black ink. Similar scrolls are in MSS. Ashmole Rolls 40, 52, 53, and 54.]
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