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British Library MS. Sloane 1092. Paper. Small Quarto. 83 folios. 16th century. 1. Alchymical collections, extracted from various authors; namely, from Raymund Lully, Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Morienus, Geber, the Rosarium Philosophorum, Fernelius, etc. partly in Latin, partly in English. f2, f9-15v, f44v-53, f54v-61, f63v-71v.
2. Alchymical verses, with marginal notes in Latin. f3.
Begins : 'Take of the egre bludd that is so redd.'
Printed in Ashmole, p. 362.
3. Pearce, the Black Monk, upon the Elixir, with marginal notes in Latin. f3v.
Printed Ashmole, p.269.
4. Other verses, with marginal notes in Latin. f5v.
Begins : 'Of this matter to you most deere.'
Printed Ashmole, p. 428.
5. Other verses. f6v.
Begins : 'Take winde, water, white and greene.'
Printed Ashmole, p431.
6. Eighty-four verses taken out of 'Nortons' Ordinall of Alchemy. f7,8.
Printed Ashmole, p41.
7. Verses on the same subject. f13v.
Begins : 'I am [Mercury] the mighty flos fleur.'
8. The Compound of Alchymy, by George Ripley [here called Riplae] with marginal notes in Latin; several of the stanzas are here and there omitted. f16-44.
Printed in Ashmole p123.
9. Two stanzas taken out of Ripley's 'Erronious Experiments' f54.
Printed Ashmole p192.
10. Another copy of the poem of Pearce, the black monk. [Imperfect.] f62.
11. Eight stanzas on the same subject, extracted from George Ripley's Epistle, prefixed to 'The Compound of Alchemy', to Edward IV. f62v.
Printed in Ashmole p111.
12. 'De media substantia mercurii', 'de sulphure', 'de corpore spiritu et anima', 'de sublimatione', 'de auro ferro plumbo philosophorum', 'de magnesia sive prima materia philosophorum'. From Raymund, Arnold, Geber, Fallopius, and others. f71v-82.
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