Anonymous, Ymage de vie, plus miscellaneous alchemical receipts

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Anonymous, Ymage de vie, plus miscellaneous alchemical receipts

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1. ff. 1r-60r Anonymous Ymage de vie

f. 1r Cy commence le liure appelle ymage de vie trait des secrez des philosophes sur la fleur dalkemie. Cest assauoir sur le elixir de la grantmedecine des philosophes ... f. 60r Et aussi tu trouueras toute la commixtion vraye par la table en la figure que dessus est escripte. deo gratias.

This alchemical text is medical in nature, and its purpose is to assist in producing the elixir for long life. See Geneviève Dumas, 'L'Ymage de vie: un vade-mecum pour réaliser la "perfection des imparfaiz"', in Joël Chandelier, Catherine Verna and Nicolas Weill-Parot (eds), Science et technique au Moyen Âge (XIIe-XVe siècles) (Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2017), pp. 143-73.

ff. 60v-62r blank.

2. ff. 62v-65v Figures of alchemical apparatus.

3. ff. 66r-72v 'Du premier levain', and other receipts and processes, by a different hand.

f. 68r Cy commence la preparation ... f. 72v ... finis laus Deo.

f. 73r-v blank.

ff. 74r-77v Similar receipts, etc., in Latin by another hand. A transcript [19th cent.] of the beginning of the first work (12 ll.) is inserted.

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