https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.2.16/manifest.jsonI – 2v ‘Aenigma de alchimie’ (22 lines). <1> [2v] Aenigma de alchimie / When vii tymes xxvj. had runne their rase / then nature discoveryd his blacke face … / … [illeg.] hat was a pryse in þe close off Salesburie / [illeg. damaged] rest his soll in heven full myrie. / 1572
3r–11r Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [4]. Cp. TK 153; DWS 745A. <1> [3r] Assit in principio sancta Maria meo / Take vj partys of flos eris & j parte of sulphur vyf … || <2> Take ij partys of flowre of coper y Rubefyyd … || <3> [3v] Take þe fflowre of Coper .i. verdigresse … || <4> Take grene vitriol j. [libra] or as moche as þou wolt … || <5> [4r] To sublyme sal armoniac || <6> [4v] Teche no man þis conclusyon, bot yf he be þy specyal frend / Dyssolue argentum mundum in aqua alba … || <7> Also another maner of Calcinatyon ys þys || <8> [5r] A parcyns worke þat wol be wroght many dayys || <9> [5v] Elixir a pon Coper || <10> Take j [libra] of vitriol & half a [libra] of sal peter … || <11> [6r] Elixir for gold || <12> Take j part of alom plum oþer alom glas … || <13> [7r] To sublyme sal armoniac & to fixi hym || <14> To resolue sal Alkely do hyt in an oxe blader … || <15> [7v] ffor to makye a parfyte medicyn, for to cast a pon mercurij … || <16> ffor to fyxy sulphur vyf & sal amoniac || <17> [8r] Here ys how þou shalt sublyme sulphur vyf || <18> [8v] Take stronge pysse & dystylle hyt by a lembecke … || <19> Take Mercurij .7. tymys sublimyd … || <20> [9r] ffor to Calceny led || <21> A noþer trew Experiment of tyn || <22> [10r] ffor to makye water of led || <23> [10v] ffor to purgye coper in a crucible || <24> Now hyt ys to wete how metal schal be broght in to Masy gobettes / [11r] … a red metell þe wheche ys abell to receve þe red Medycyn
11r–v Prose text IMEP O.2.16 [5], DWS 745A. <1> [11r] Noticia diuersarum rerum / Sublymyd ys þat þat ys turnyd out of hys kynd … [11v] … & so hyt wol for soþe & c
12r–v Recipes DWS 745A. <1> [12r] Ad faciendum colorem Aureum || <2> [12v] Ad multiplicandam ceram / … vt duas quousque habeat bonum colorem & c
12v Thomas Charnock, Poem (8 lines) TCB 424. <1> [12v] When an huderyth & iiij schore had rune their race / then four after in shorte tyme and space … / … yet XXX. at laste came in which great boste / and made bothe blacke and white to fly the coste
13r–16v Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [6], DWS 745A. <1> [13r] Vnum blancherus || <2> [13v] A gold water || <3> A red entrynge water yn euery metel || <4> [14r] ffyn gold colora a pon coper or laton || <5> A Water to Wryte in metel þer wyth || <6> A water corysy best y prouyd || <7> [14v] Ye say of gold ys þys || <8> To gylte syluere || <9> [15r] To gylte jryn or style || <10> To make styl nesche to grauce þer ynne || <11> A gyltynge for al manner metell || <12> [15v] To wryte or to drawe yn jre or in styl in colore of syluer … || <13> To gylt a pon jre or styll || <14> To make rech Boras || <15> [16v] Plumbum vstum sic fit / … & fit plumbum vstum
16v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [8], DWS 745A. <1> [16v] Take vij [peny] wyȝt of verdegres iij vnces alum glas … / … or þou do ham in to þy pot & c.
18v Notes and recipe DWS 745A. <1> [18v] Non quod Cuiuslibet sal & Attramentorum resolucio absque labore … / … & fiet luna cum auxilio dei
19r–22r Recipes / Thomas Charnock, Poem (8 lines) TCB 425. DWS 745A. <1> [19r] Opus verissimum ad C probatum cum stangus || <2> [19v] Composicio lapidis secundum eundem auctorem || <3> [20r] Composicio Elixeris || <4> Charnock / Fro the time that he be black and dede; / washe him .7. times or he be perfit redd: … / … And when this woman it brought a bedd / take the child and knock him on the hedd / Charnock .1573. || <5> [20v] Nota quod distiollaciones debent fieri a Medio mensis … || <6> Nota hic jncipit Elixarium optimum sol & lune … || <7> [21r] Ad solem || <8> [21v] Aqua Alba Cuprum dealbans. Recipe Sal Armoniac, Sal Gemme … || <9> Aqua Maioris de albacionis sic fit. Recipe Aqua coperosa … || <10> [22r] Item aqua Maioris dealbacionis quam precedens sic fiet. Recipe sal commune … / … erunt coppora subtilia quam spissa & c
22r–24v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [9], DWS 745A. <1> [22r] Take .3. [libra] of þe 3. þinges id est de stangno de mercurio crudo & de mercurio sublimato … [24v] … And þus do as ofte as þou luste Et sic Explicit Opus & c.
25r, 25r–26r Michael Scot, Documentum cuiusdam spiritus including verse (58 lines) TK 182, 17, not in DWS 800. <1> [25r] Bufo gradiens per terram & aquila volans per aeram est magisterium / Documentum cuiusdam spiritus traditum … / Accipe bufonem & pone in ollam perforatam … / … pro omnium morbo cuiuscunque generis fuerit deo adiuuante || <2> Sic mirus & nouus fero cum medicamine virus / Mire composita manet in me cum nece vita … [26r] … Dissipat vtrumque morbum callidum gelidumque / Arceat atque domet, metrice canet ore suo met / [telos]
26r Thomas Charnock, Poem (6 lines) TCB 424. <1> [26r] here in godes name take thy rest /Quieth in thy warme nest … / … 7. tymes 600. and 16. [iv]ste / then this chylde awak thou must
26v–27r Poem (36 lines). <1> [26v] Ad lectorem / Si rerum secreta petis hunc lege lector / Librum, & si in [canc. ceptum] compositum … [27r] … vale precor feras obscura carmina quamquam / Atque tenebrosum lux tenebrosa benedicta fugat / [telos]
27v Prose text. <1> [27v] There is in [mercury] what sso euer the wysse man dothe seke … / … yff he take ij n. inwardely for medicen / quod thomas charnocke .1577.
28r Motto / Thomas Charnock, Poem (2 lines) TCB 425. <1> [28r] Ille sophos esto qui istehec in signia pandit … / … Quod certe pars est suma philosophiae || <2> We worke this worke off wonder /… / … quod thomas charnocke
28v–31r George Ripley, ‘Cantilena’ (152 lines) TK 499, not in DWS 811, CRC 6.1. <1> [28v] De lapide philosophico ceu de phenice / En philosophacium hac in cantilena / Dans archana concino voce cum amena … [32r] … vt gustenus practice per regeneramen / Eius fructus vberes & predulcis amen / [telos]
31r Thomas Charnock, Poem (5 lines) TCB 425. <1> [31r] A boute .653. I dare be bolde / this childe shall put one / a crowne off golde … / … this chyd e shall rule þe rost
31v–32v Short notes in prose / Thomas Charnock, verse notes TCB 425. <1> [31v] mvltiplication / too men to one ow man … || <2> Sibilles novmber || <3> bis centum et octies … || <4> [32r] Roger Bachon || <5> In prima lapidis nostri operatione … || <6> primum opus est dissouere lapidem … || <7> Oportet primo quod convertas ea in similem duorum corporum … || <8> the sayinge of frier Bacon … || <9> When he is full blacke then take some payne / to washe him .7. times in your water off fovrdayne. || <10> 7. times assendinge vpp & downe within a fovnt now darke now clere of lyght., Dasten || <11> [32v] Principium nostri operis est dissolucio lapidis || <12> Rippley mayket a fayre showe / how covlers wyll ryse a reowe || <13> pale, blacke, with false citrine … || <14> betwixte trewe blacke, and trwe white / wyll appere maynie covlers to syghte … || <15> Apparet etiam ante albedinem color pavonis quod Roger Bachon
33r List of ingredients / recipe The latter is IMEP O.2.16 [10], DWS 745A. <1> [33r] Proporciones ad Album … / Proporciones ad Rubeum Elixeris … || <2> [a.m. ffor too make fyne soll] / Take Cletys id est platis of style y bernyschid clene … / … þou schalt fynd hyt as good gold [ins. as] any to alle manere a say & c.
33v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [11], DWS 745A. <1> [33v] To makye sal Armonyacke. jn primis. Make a stronge dobylforsyd lye … / … take a bladder [ins. &] put hym þer inne & serua & c.
34r–37v Poem (2 lines) blended into prose text DIMEV 2417 [1]; IMEP O.2.16 [12], DWS 745A. <1> [34r] Yf þou wolt ryȝt wel for to spede vse wel þy pater noster þy Aue maria & Crede Now worþy ffader. herkene now to me. y wol þat þou wete wel þe ferst tyme þat þe mater & þe sperme of all metell ys mercury … [37v] … Ofte and ofte tyl he have y dronke y nowe & c.
37v–38r Prose text DWS 745A. <1> [37v] Sperma mercurij Terra est mater & germinans procreate in matrice mulieris … [38r] … & consolidas labera itaque de eo in arte & gaude & lauda deum super omnia opera eius
38v–40v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [13], DWS 745A. <1> [38v] Crocum ferri sic fit Recipe thynne platys of yre … [40v] … & hit shal prevayle affectually Sed primum querite regnum dei & justiciam eius & c
40v–43r Prose text IMEP O.2.16 [14], DWS 745A. <1> [40v] Now sone y wol schewe to þe þe dowtes of þe Elixir … [43r] … & þey were y put in dyspayre & so left þys sciens. & c
44r–45v ps.-Arnold of Villanova, Fixatio elixeris TK 660, DWS 745A. <1> [44r] Illumina corpus tuum antequam inperenas ei animam … [45v] … Sic explicit dictum & sufficit intelligenti hec [intelligente] & c.
46r–47r ps.-Pliny, Secretum secretorum TK 620, DWS 745A, not in DWS 157. <1> [46r] Hic incipit tractatus optimus in quo exponit & aperte declarat Plerus philosophus que sit lapis philosophicus … [47r] … Postea auge ignem modicum cum vrina calida quousque predam omnes intenciores fuerint albedinis
47r Thomas Charnock, Poem (5 lines) TCB 426. DWS 745A. <1> [47r] Looke yow conceve my wordes a right / and marke well this which I have sedd / ffor blacke is ferment vnto ye white / and white shalbe ferment vnto ye redde / which I neuer saw, till I had white heres vppon my hedd / T.C: 1574. the .50. yere off my age
47v Poem (15 lines) DWS 745A. <1> [47v] [a.m. Enigma ad alchimiae] / When vij tymes xxvj had runne their rase / then nature discovered his blacke face … / … then harttelly to god dyd I praye / that euer I saw that ioyefull daye
48r–64r Prose texts, excerpts and notes DWS 745A. <1> [48r] Nota putrifacione / Nam putrefacio non est nisi morticifacio humidi cum sicco humidum … || <2> [49r] Conclusiones philosophorum De Elixer || <3> [50r] In loco boratis || <4> Nota opus cinabrij valde bonum || <5> [50v] Nota principaliter super omnia || <6> [52v] Lapis a me descriptus nobiscum est permanens … || <7> [53r] Intencione nostre operacionis non est aliud nisi … || <8> [53v] De lapide albo || <9> [54r] De lapide rubeo sequitur || <10> [55r] Nota multi sapientes intellexerunt quod solucio est mollificacio … || <11> [56v] Sic luna fugarum per fixam lunificatur … || <12> ante digestio fermentum … || <13> [58r] Noli ponere aquam in mundam … || <14> [59r] Socrotes ait querite frigus lune … || <15> Anima aduerte quo bene ad ea que dicit philosophus … || <16> [59v] Alkemia est ars de occulta philosophia de illa parte que methora … || <17> [62v] Capitulum verum & probatum Elixer || <18> [63r] Nota quod inceratio est vnio inceratio … || <19> [63v] Nota quod alibi dicit quod due partes fixi tetra partem volatilis … || <20> Per istos vt totiens multiplicente super rem terrandam … || <21> Hermes & alij dicunt quod Alkemia est substantia corpora … || <22> [64r] Nota quod in confeccione Elier … / … vltima diuisio & finem & c || <23> spiritus eius est … a figit
64v–65r Recipe / poem (3 lines) IMEP O.2.16 [A44], DWS 745A. <1> [64v] [a.m. A Proper mater good for a pewter platter. T. C.] / In nomine sancte trinitatis Accipe vnam herbam … / … The proieccioun C decies S Sencies Se millesies se milleies Se millesies Se decies millesies | Se Cencies Millesies Se & c || <2> [65r] Est mercurio quicquid sapientes … || <3> Charnocke defieth Charcole || <4> be ware off decete … / … but vij yeres by studie || <5> Ascendere et discendere till he wyll assende no more / then wyll he stande blacke blacker then euer before
65v Prose text / note [a.m.] DWS 745A. <1> [65v] Nota quod venus habet 2o infirmitates … / … Et erit ductule & c. || <2> All mettalles be they neuer sso small … / … and this is perfet philosophie / Thomas Charnocke
66r Recipe / note The former is IMEP O.2.16 [17]. DWS 745A. <1> [66r] Recipe sal armoniac 1 or 2 or 3 y sublimyd wyht comyn salt … / … & hyt schal be fyne [lune] at al asayys wyth owt dowt þe woche hathe be prouyd & c. || <2> Constat mercurium noster supradicto de hijs diccocionibus … / … quas approbo ego uere [auctoritate] deus
66v–67v ‘Richard Carpenter’s work’ ‘Spain’ (98 lines) DIMEV 2417 [20] (N/IMEV 2656). TCB 275–277. DWS 817. <1> [66v] Notabili versus qd Ric. Carpenter / Of spayne take þe clere lyȝt / The rede gomme þat ys so bryȝt … [67v] … A vyse þe wel or þe by gynne / Or lytyl wol be yowre wynne / Explicit
68r–69r Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [18], DWS 746. <1> [68r] To make sel preperat / Take Bayȝe salt what quantyte þat Euer þou wolt … || <2> ffor to make sall alkaly || <3> To make þer of a noghe … || <4> Item for the Boyler Take the leys of weyne … || <5> [68v] To preperat thy venus || <6> A quenche fort to den a wayȝ the Rednes of venus || <7> [69r] Pro jeccyonem a pon venus / … And hit schal bey Good At all maner prewys Sawe at the test Seyste & c
69v–71v Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [19], DWS 746. <1> [69v] Take j lb of vitriol & half j lb of sal peter … [71v] … & al schal turne ynto fyn gold probatum est & c.
72r ‘Short work’ (6 lines) DIMEV 5920 [6] (N/IMEV 3721). Cp. TCB 393–396. DWS 746. <1> [72r] Yf ye wolle to þys medycyn a plye / make fyrst hevy hard hotte & drye … / … Yf ye have comynge of suche a þyng / Explicit prologus & c
72r–73r Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [20]. DWS 746. <1> [72r] Sal armoniack ys þus ymayd Take þe vryne of old childryn … || <2> [72v] To make sal alkaly || <3> [73r] fflowr of Allym ys þus y preparat / … a whyte flowr of þe whech ys y mayd a water to euery whyte a lixer & c.
73r–v Notes DWS 746. <1> [73r] ffor yff you dyd knou [canc. illeg.] what tyme & space … / … this science vnsartayne. / .Charnocke .1572. || <2> [73v] Lapis a me descriptuus vobiscum est permanens … || <3> Cum autem terra commissetur cum aqua … || <4> Sarten vertuees off þe stone / … into puer syluer with in an hower
74r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [21], DWS 746. <1> [74r] Recipe a pownd of sulphur, grynde hyt or bete hyt in to smal pouder … / … And þat ys y clepyd terra alba & arida
74v–75r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [22], DWS 746. <1> [74v] Now to reuyxe þat erthe and yf hym lyf do in thys wyse … [75r] … Thys water wole fixe mercury. arsenyke and alle oþer spyrytys
75r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [23], DWS 746. <1> [75r] Recipe Take ballys of tarter and brenne ham in þe fyre tyll they be whyte … / … & do grete maysteryes in þe þe [sic] werkys of alkymye
75v–77v Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [24], DWS 746. <1> [75v] Take þe foyle of syluer ybete as paynteres vsyth … || <2> [77r] Take .6. cletys of fyne yre clene … || <3> [77v] Ad descendendum / Take arsnacke pure what quantite þat þou wolt … / … & tak þat þat sit in þe necke of þe glas & by sydes y leke a marke se & serua
78r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [25], DWS 746. <1> [78r] To fend lunary þe herbe / Recipe a glasse & loke yn the glasse by nyght … / … where as a hors can not kepe his lok on his fote
78v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [26], DWS 746. <1> [78v] To draw sylver owt of led / Take capons henys cokes or chekyns bons … / … then the lede wyll voyde in to the test of aschys made yn the basyn probatur
78v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [27], DWS 746. <1> [78v] To make seruce / Take plates of lead as much as ye wyll … / … but stur it well as is affor sayd least it turne to lead as it was before
79r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [A45], DWS 746. <1> [79r] Nota for makyng of cerys probatum est coche / de modo faciendi cerusam / Cerusa siue plumbum ho modo fiat Recipe laminas plumbeas quot volueris … / … & continue moueatur ne iterum in plumbum reuertatur
79r–80v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [A46], DWS 746. <1> [79r] Recipe a box of jron in the legthe of a fote & in the wydnes of ij ynches … / [80r] Sequitur rectificacio / Sequitur modus fermentandi / Sequitur modus communionis / [80v] … i haue wretyn the receyte & þe ryghtyst way playnly & no thyng hed valeatus in domino
81v Recipe. <1> [81v] Solue feliaes in aquas duos … / … tandem tempus in omne lee[illeg.]
82r–126r, 128r–131r George Ripley, ‘Compound of alchemy’ (265+21 stanzas) / note DIMEV 975 [13] (N/IMEV 595), not in DWS 810, CRC 9.4. [128r – v: DIMEV 975 [14] (N/IMEV 595)]. TCB 107–189. <1> [82r] Here begynnyth the compend of Alkemy /made by a chanon of Brydlyngton … / Chyld of thys dyssyplyne inclyne to me thyne ere / And harkyn my doctryne with also thy dylygence … [126r] … & that he wyll for one of hys on domys daye mekene / & graunte me in hys blys to reygne for ever with hym Amen / [128r] After all thys I wyll ye vnderstonde / for thy sauegarde what I haue don … [131r] … preasynge withoute ceasynge hys Gloriose Maiestye / which he in Hys Kyngdom Graunte vs for to See / Amen / [131v] Explicit Alkymyce tractatus philoȝophie … / … dans impende sibi que prece visa tibi || <2> Quando Sublimata … / … sic habebis lac virginis vt patet alibi
127v Verse and prose text surrounding Ripley’s Wheel (8 lines) DIMEV 590 [2] (not in N/IMEV). <1> [127v] thys ffygure conteynyth all our secrettes both gret & small / As holy script maketh mencion In þe wombe of a virgin immacvlat … / … & to god both nyght & day ffor grace & for thy auctor praye
133v–140v Johannes Viennensis, Speculum elementorum [incomplete] TK 587, not in DWS 304. <1> [133v] Speculum Elementorum / Gloria laus & honor perhennis omnipotenti deo cuius gracia cooperante Speculum Elementorum desiderabile componitur sub hac forma … / [138v] Veritates / Exclusis igitur falsitatibus predictis … / [140v] Obstinitates / Falsitates excluduntur ac veritatis inducuntur … / … aqua per se & quod habetur terra per se
142v Note. <1> [142v] Creavit angelos suos spiritus / Quanto magis terrestres partes pro sublimacione … / … et omnis alterationis. medulla.
143r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [28]. <1> [143r] ffor to make cals of golde Take thynne plates of gold or lymayle … / … & kepe it clene for it is called cals of gold / ffor to purge lune
II – 4v–18v Prose text [incomplete] IMEP O.2.16 [29]. Includes DWS 747. <1> [4v] […] so þey bothe be of yonge peple and many oþer names infinit and diuerse wyse … / [16r] The dyssoluynge of þe reed erthe into water ys thys Take and puryfye hym and clense hym from hys superflewyte … [18v] … whyche god yefeth to whom yt plesyth hym cuius nomen sit benedictum in secula Amen.
19r–20v Prose text Includes DWS 159. <1> [19r] [a.m. Secretum Gilberti cardinalis] / Ecce in effabile secretorum alkamie quod composuit Gilbertvs Cardinal .vj. de continens in capitula … [20v] … & congelabitur in lapidum durum, Capitulum [quintum] [canc. dissoluens] dissolu[cion]e lapidem
21r–22r Recipe. <1> [21r] experimentum secundum quosdam profundissimum / Bonissime & profundissime dabo vobis experimentium verum ac verissimum Recipe ergo in nomine dominum … [22r] … & est tum vna sola res quod ergo ipse ignoro & non nosco / Explicit
23v–24r Mercurius philosophorum TK 1153, DWS 561. <1> [23v] [P]Vtrefacias mercurium in fimo equino calido et post putrefaccionem distilla … [24r] … reducas in humidum quam ad sublimandum opis solucionis est inuentum
24r–25r ps.-Avicenna, De origine lapis philosophorum TK 508, DWS 134, 128. <1> [24r] Auicenna de origine lapidis / [E]St enim aurum vivum lapis philosophorum qui nascitur subtus terram … [25r] … habeant potenciam supra 1000 gradus mercuriis seu jouis veneris & saturni / Explicit archanum avicenne
25v–28r ps.-Bernard of Gordon, De lapide philosophico TK 592, DWS 278. <1> [25v] Bernardus de Gordonia / [G]uydonis .12o. omnis namque ordinata generacio est ex accione masculi & femine par conueniencia sibi … / [26r] Bernardus de gordoneo / Non putes illud quod tingit & fugit veram esse tinctura philosophorum … [28r] … & hoc habet fieri virtute ignis naturalis / Explicit barnardus de gordonya
28v–32v Roger Bacon, Speculum alkymie TK 1405, DWS 194. <1> [28v] Bacon in speculo alkymie Inter cetera que dixi … / Scire ergo te opertes quod triplicitur reducuntur corporam ad suam mineram … [32v] … hec est eius multiplicacio cui contrariatur philosophi deo gracias / Explicit liber Baconis
32v Recipe DWS 458. <1> [32v] Modus faciendi aquam mercuriam Solucio mercurii bene siblimati per se / Recipe mercurius [ins. al bene] quinques sublimatum & pone … / … Procede ergo cum eam sicut scis & c. / Explicit
33r–34r Prose text DWS 549. <1> [33r] De lapide preciosum qui a mille philosophorum experimentate quedam nominant cum capillum … [34r] … quod a sapientibus fuit [annis] philosophibus occultatum laus deo & gentes nobis
34v–35r Recipes DWS 597. <1> [34v] De lunam Recipe de arsenico sublimato partem j de argento pulueriȝato partem j … || <2> [35r] Ad solem citrinacio bona Accipe auripigmentum … / … in solem bonam
35v–36r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [30], DWS 731. <1> [35v] In þe name of god amen Take j lb of akybryth & ij lb of mercury … [36r] … as it is j seyde he schall brynge þys werke to perfeccion in trewth and god sey amen
36r Recipe. <1> [36r] Oleum tartaro sic fit Recipe pilas tartari … / … in sacculo & loco humido & c.
38v–60v Magister Saphirus, Liber maiorum operum TK 1123, DWS 149. <1> [38v] Incipit liber intitulatus liber maiorum operum editus a magistro saphiro de diuersis modis operandi in arte alkimia … / [P]Rimus modus operandi de basilico … / … misceri & [vtere] sicut tu vis
61r–62v Recipe. <1> [61r] Ressepe mercurius naturali & misse illum cum sale communis … [62v] … Omne fluat triste Gradus Assit deprecori iste
63r–67r Prose text DWS 405. <1> [63r] Hic incipiunt vocabula & interpretaciones nominum grecorum & arabico in arte alkimica … / [S]aturnus plumbum arabice alaȝarab … [67r] … contrita cum lacte caprino in uiscat interficit / Explicit
67r–69r ps.-Hermes, Liber trium verborum TK 623, 810, DWS 43. <1> [67r] Hic incipit opus & practica bernardi [canc. a] magni alkimiste in album / [H]ic liber trium verborum hermetis lapis iste dequo sic opus philosophorum … [69r] … & ad naturam meliorem lautetur quo deus qui talia creauit / Explicit bernardus
69v–71v Recipe DWS 43, 533. <1> [69v] Hic incipit veri & verissimi exposicio hac sub dei nomine benedictione & cetara [sic] / [I]Ncipit exposicio veri verissimum … Recipe lj j. ruffi lapidis lapidis magni philosophorum … / [71r] Considera bona notabilia & vtilia [71v] … & tingit lunam in solem
71v–72r Recipes The first is IMEP O.2.16 [31]. <1> [71v] To make neyssche metalle hard take white venegre … || <2> ad calcinandum solem || <3> [72r] De aquis que dicuntur aque vite & primo de aquis ȝadec deiȝ bagdag || <4> Ad calcinandum lunam / … & in aere congeatur & c
72v–74r Principium rerum TK 1126, DWS 624. <1> [72v] Principium est illud generalis primaria & mater materia omni corporum terrenorum … [74r] … & in venies materiam conuersam in illud quod optasti & c / ffinito libro reddatur gracia christo
74r–v Alumen de hispania TK 88, 264, DWS 9 / ‘Maria mira sonat’ (6 lines) TK 849, not in DWS 790 / note. <1> [74r] Alumen de hispania gummum album & gummum rubeum quod est kybryt philosophorum … [74v] … in istud est secretum occultum versus || <2> Mirria mira sonat qui talia pocula donat … / … Gaudet in assata, sata per 3 socia rata || <3> De lapide rubeo auripigmenti crocij … / … est opus magistri parisiensis
75r–75v Causae diversarum operationum circa salem TK 1101, DWS 573. <1> [75r] Notuli causas diuersarum operacionum circa salem … [75v] … sal fixus non habet partes [ethromonegas] ergo non habet feces Explicit
77r–107v ps.-Rasis, Liber secretorum TK 820, DWS 116. <1> [77r] Incipit liber secretorum de voce bubacari mahumetis filij ȝot[eri] arati / [L]iber iste diuiditur in 3 partes quarum prima manifestat species … [107v] … & ligat quare planum est & versus Ex Suȝat || <2> Sisrac id est sal kaley … / … albubacari
108r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [32], DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [108r] To make sal armoniac / Recipe strong vrine ij lb & j lb of soote … / … and so schall þou make thy sal armoniac perfite none better
108v Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [33], DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [108v] Take and make a stronge lye of myȝti askys & calx vife … / … & þou schalt haue of j lb of vermylion viij [ounces] and more of fyn syluer Deo gracias
108v Note IMEP O.2.16 [34], DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [108v] Arsenyk is fixed in þre sublimacion þus jncorpore arsenek poudred on a marbul … / … but better it were to medel þis with þe 3 part of fyne siluer calcined
109r Recipes IMEP O.2.16 [35], DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [109r] Take j pound of arsenyk and half a pond of sulphur in sotyl pouder … || <2> Take sal peter and do hym in agrete quoel and set hym on an esy fyre … || <3> for to make mercury rede / Take [decima libra] of mercure … || <4> to make mercury red / Take calx ouorum and medel hem with þe yelkys … || <5> Take sal armoniac sal vi ana sublyme hem … / … and þe mercury schall be red fix and fusible
109r Recipe IMEP O.2.16 [A47], DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [109r] [Tak]e j vnce lune plates and mercury ana & put in a crusible … / … and þou schalt encrece ix [denarii] probatum est
109v Recipes DWS 1111, 1112. <1> [109v] Aqua mirabilis que soluites omne corpus / Recipe sal armoniacum fixum … || <2> Aqua ingressiua / Recipe sal armoniacus [librum] .j. calcis viui … / … qui dat ingresum omni medicyne
110v List / recipe DWS 1112. <1> [110v] alaȝarab arabice … / … mercurius viui argentum ȝaybac || <2> Recipe of plates of [mars] [ounces] vj … / … and it shalbe fusible as [lune].
