Collection of short alchemical works in Latin and English (Miscellanea Alchemica XXVIII)

Collection of short alchemical works in English

Contents

1. ff. 1r-3r Miscellaneous notes and receipts in Latin and English

2. ff. 4r-12r Ramon Lull, Apertorium, abbreviated

f. 4r Memorandum here after followyth the apertorye of Raymonde Lulii of maiorica the great philosopher. And nowe here ys, for too showyde and declaryde ... f. 12r ... that ys for too saye argente vyue parmanente. Teos.

3. ff. 13r-16v Rhazes, Practica, extracts

f. 13r Heare begynnythe the practyse of the philosophers usyde as well by rasys ... f. 16v ... and also yt ys cawlyde the philosophers redde leyde. Explicit practica philosophorum deo gratias. Teos.

4. ff. 17v-19v Robert Holcot, Breviloquium

f. 17v Holcott the name of chryste be blessyde and of that wyll be profyte in dedys and crafte of nature ... f. 19v ... and thys ys suffycyente too owre purpose and too wyse mene. Teos.

f. 19v Alchemical receipts

f. 19v Take plumbum, suphur and arsnyke ... Mercurii ys mortifyede ...

5. ff. 20r-21v Rhazes, Rotula

f. 20r Rotula Rhasis philosophi raro invenitur satis. The beginninge of owr stone ys water inpalpable ... f. 21v ... yt is clepyde darkness or a thynge that darkythe, etc. Teos.

6. ff. 22r-24r Miscellaneous receipts

f. 22r For too semente golde. Now shall take ... f. 24r ... them together ...

Mid 16th century

1 volume 24 ll. 4to. 21 x 15 1/2 cm. Unbound. Margins slightly frayed. On the first and second leaves are coloure symbolical pen drawings, illustrating alchemical subjects.

Purchased 1934.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).