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British Library MS. Sloane 690. Paper. Quarto. 30 folios. 17th Century. 1. f43 'A philosophicall poeme or treatise of the truth of the minerall phisicke, etc. turned out of French into English'; [with a preface to the reader and dedication to the Duke of Loraaine prefixed. The whole is in prose and much abridged. The original French, under the title of 'Poeme Philosophique de la verité de la physique minerale, par [...Salat] le Sieur de Nuisement, Receveur général du Comté de Ligny en Barrois', was printed at the Hague in 1639, in 12mo. A copy from a former edition, printed at Paris in 1620, is in MS. Sloane 3681, written in 1679 by Christian Granhardor Erfurdt, 'propter exemplarium penuriam.']
2. f69 'The Visions of Hermes.'
Begins: 'Although our art doth consist in on only thinge'.
[This manuscript is in the same handwriting as MS. Sloane 687.]
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