London, Wellcome Institute MS. 526.

London, Wellcome Institute MS. 526.
388 [452] folios [many missing]. 220x153mm. 16th Century [c.1515-1527.]
Miscellanea Alchemica XXVI. [In German and Latin.]
1. f9-83 [Miscellaneous alchemical and chemical receipts.]
2. f84-95v [Uguictius ?] Lilium intelligentiae [?]
3. f96-102 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts.]
4. f103-111 [Compendium aureum alchimiae.]
5. f111-113 [Guilhelmus Tecenensis.] Lilium de spinis evulsum.
6. f113-113v Geber. De investigatione magisterii. ['Introductio' only.]
7. f122-250 [Miscellaneous receipts.]
8. f250v-254 Geber. Experimenta [extracts.]
9. f254v-263 [Miscellaneous receipts.]
10. f263v-266v Petrus Peregrinus. De magnete.
11. f267-296 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts.]
12. f297 Geber. Excerpta ex libro Regni.
13. f297-298 M. de Sancta Sophia. Glossa.
14. f298-316 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts.]
15. f316v [M. Ficinus. De arte chemica. Capitulum XX.]
16. f328-333 J. de Rupescissa. De consideratione quintae essentiae. Lib. II. [Beginning wanting.]
17. f333-335v [Qualities of materia medica, etc.]
18. f336-339 J. de Rupescissa. De consideratione quintae essentiae [extracts from Book I.]
19. f341-342 J. Dombleday. Capitulum de alchemia.
20. f344-345 Speculum alchimiae.
21. f346-347 Arnoldus de Villanova. Secretum.
22. f349-357 Franciscus Alchimista. 'Liber intitulatus preciosissimum dei Donum...'
23. f357v-359 [Alchemical extracts and notes.]
24. f360 Pseudo Plato. [Extract from the 'Summa'?]
25. f361-362 R. Lullius. Ars magica [extract.]
26. f363-373 [Miscellaneous receipts, with account in German of a transmutation in 1461.]
27. f374-375 Joannes ordinis Hierosolymitarum Cruciferi. Opus.
28. f388-390 [J. de Rupescissa. Extracts from 'Liber lucis'.]
29. f390v-394 Geber. Liber radicum [extracts.]
30. f395-403 F. Zaffo. secretissima ars alchemiae.
31. f404-409 R. Lullius. Elucidatio Testamenti, etc.
32. f410-411 R. Lullius. Investigatio secreti occulti.
33. f411v-413 [R. Lullius. Opus bonum ?]
34. f413-417 R. Lullius. Anima artis.
35. f417v-421 R. Lullius. Lapidarius.
36. f422-423 R. Lullius. Testamentum: Practica [Cap. 1-15 only.]
37. f429-433 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts.]
38. f434-435 Winandus de Ruffo Clipeo. Operatio ad Album.
39. f440v-444v R. Lullius. Potestas divitiarum [Cap. 1-9.] [Followed by the last section of 'Magna medicina'.]
40. f445-446 De lapidibus preciosis.
41. f447 Winandus de Ruffo Clipeo. Gloria mundi [incomplete.]
42. f449-452v Hortulanus. Practica [extracts, the second incomplete.]
[About three quarters of the volume appears to have been written by the 'Vulcanus decretorum doctor', a Benedictine monk of Wissbern, who seems to have been a practising alchemist.]