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British Library MS. Sloane 632. Paper. Partly in Quarto, and partly in folio. 41 folios. 17th century. 1. Translations by Dr Foote of :-
a. f2 'Gerrard Dorney's exclamation to God.' f.2.
b. f3v B.J. Penot's preface to his treatise on the preparation and use of chymical medicaments. [The original in Latin, was printed in octavo, Ursellis, 1602.]
c. f6 'A treatise of John Tritheme, concerninge the spagyricke artifice, exposed and interpreted by Gerrard Dorney', containing the greater part of Dorn's Speculativa philosophia. [The 'Speculative Philosophia', or second part of his 'Clavis totius Philosophiae Chymisticae', was printed in 12mo, Lugd. 1567.]
2. f26 'Aurora, The day-breake, or a new spring to the art of medicine, by I.B. van Helmont; written in Low Dutch by the author, and thence translated into English'. [Imperfect.]
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