Collection of three alchemical works by Jean Saulnier, Johannes de Rupescissa and Arnoldus de Villanova, with the addition of some alchemical receipts. The first work is in French, the remainder in Latin.
Contents:
1. ff. 2r-16r: Jean Saulnier, De la transmutation des metaux, abridged.
f. 2r [5 lines of Incipit struck through and illegible.] (Begins) O filz je comme pere a la personne qui soit sur des viuants que jayme mieulx baille ceste petite doctrine la quelle vivants uew jayme mieulx baiille ceste petite doctrine la quelle jay scripte de ma main ...
f. 16r: Explicit: Ce script faict lan de grace mil iiiiO. xxx En le septieme jour du moys de may. Enfin signe [word obliterated] J Saulnier. Amen deo gratias. Amen deo gratias. Cui prodest homini si totum mundum lucretur. Et anima eius detrimentum In ruturum pasciatur. Cum quid agas prudentes. Respice finem.
2. f. 16v-17v: Alchemical receipts in Latin, including one 'Pro memoria'.
3. ff. 18r-71v: John of Rupecissa, De consideratione quintae essentiae, first 10.5 chapters wanting.
f. 18r: [Capitulum XI, second half] Aliud est ex secretis narrari extractionem quinte essentie ab omnibus rebus comestibilibus ...
f. 71v: Explicit: ... et quantitas auri potabilis debet esse 1. Et de aliqua aqua 1.
4. ff. 72r-100v: Arnold of Villanova and/or his circle (his nephew Peter of Villanova?), Liber de aquis, in a version revised by anonymous between 28 October 1332 and April 1333: see A. Calvet, 'Qu'est-ce que le corpus alchimique attribué à Maître Arnaud de Villeneuve', in Actes de la 'II Trobada Internacional d'estudis sobre Arnau de Vilanova' , ed. by J. Perarnau (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005), pp. 435-56 (pp. 444, 448, 452).
f. 72r: Incipit liber de aquis secundum duodecim signa. In sole et luna existentia. Et secundum duodecim partes corporis humani principales. A doctissimo viro magistro arnaldo de villanova feliciter factus. Humanum corpus cum sit compositum ...
f. 100v: Explicit: ... Finis Repertorii huius voluminis.
Produced at Aix.