London, Wellcome Institute MS. 515.

London, Wellcome Institute MS. 515.
78 + 1 folios. 225x165mm. Early 17th Century.
Miscellanea Alchemica VII.
1. ff1-6v Pseudo St. Thoas Aquinas. Secreta Alchimiae.
2. ff10-20v De lapide philosophico conficiendo [in Italian.]
3. ff21-28v [Frater Elias?] Lorto delle richese della sapientia de Dio.
Begins: 'La nostra medicina a solamente comporta della natura ...' [Illustrated with 12 small watercolours of the 'Donum Dei' series. [In Italian].
4. ff28v-40 Melchior, Episcopus Brixenensis. De lapide philosophorum.
5. ff41-51 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts.]
6. ff53-56 Lapis [in verse.]
7. ff57v-64v [Symbolic figures of the planets. 8 circles with downward pointing triangles, with correspondences to the planets.]
8. ff65-65v St Albertus Magnus. Liber alchimiae.
9. ff67-74 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts in Italian.]
10. ff75-77 Tullio Benassai. [Alchemical receipts, followed by tables of chemical substances and their conventional signs.]