https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.8.25/manifest.jsonThe flyleaves at beginning and end are from a law MS. in French of cent. xiv, the writing on the inner side of each erased.
On the verso of the first is a xvith cent. receipt for a Balsam.
ff.1-40 are all in the hand of Aegidius de Wes
I. f.i Egidii du Wes alias de vadis ad philosophie filios caritatiua monicio
Moneo uos O Lectores
followed by three sets of verses and two tables of contents.
2. The name Thomas Knyvet at top.
f.1 Visio mistica Arnaldi de Villanoua
Vidi senem nimia claritate.
An initial of a man sitting up in bed, and part of a border from a xvth cent. French MS., are stuck on the leaf.
f.4 3. Tractatulus doctus. J. Daustini
Testificatur ad credendum.
f.9b 4. Aristoteles de mineralibus
Terra pura.
f.12 5. Georgius Riplay
Prol. Salutem. Rogasti me amantissime frater.
At the end is the name
Bryan fytzwyllyame
which occurs again on f.40b.
f.14b 6. Liber perfecti magisterii sec. Rasim
Quoniam studii solertis.
f.20b 7. Liber fiducie qui est nonus de septuaginta
Iam preterierunt libri.
f.21 8. Liber septuagesimus
In hoc meo libro.
f.24 9. Liber Regis
Hunc librum separauimus.
The first leaf is of vellum.
f.26 10. Liber trium uerborum
Principium huius operis.
f.28 11. Liber xxx uerborum
Iam scis tu.
12. Liber de naturis colorum
f.32 Notato quoniam ignis
f.33 13. Liber coniunccionum
Ex antiqua sciencia.
f.35b 14. Liber administracionum
Vt ait alkindus.
f.38b 15. Liber Saturni qui est 7 us de 70 ta
Iam diuino auxilio.
f.40b 16. Liber luminum Aristotelis
Proles succedit.
II. ff. 30. Cent. xiii, late.
Inc. liber Rebis.
Dixit mulieris (?) ad fledium. Serua quod dicam tibi.
Followed by 30 other short alchemical writings, all belonging to the "70 books," not in order.
On f.68 is the Liber xii aquarum, and ff.69, 70 contain various paragraphs in the same hand.
III. In de Wes' hand.
f.71 has the end of a poem.
f.72 2. Inc. liber Solis sec. Hermetem
quoniam in opere.
f.75b 2. Liber Saturni et aluminum Rasis
f.81 3. Liber aquarum qui est de 70 ta
f.85 4. Libri duo spirituum Rasis
f.93b 5. Liber de vasis et fornacibus
f.98b 6. Experimenta ad testimonium artis
f.105b 7. Liber de septem qui est decimus de 70 ta
IV. ff. 30. Cent. xiii, xiv.
f.109 1. Inc. lumen luminum liber Rasis philos. in arte elkimia in quo thesauri secretorum nature occultantur
Cum de sublimiori.
Ends f.130b utiliter predicat. Expl.
f.131 2. Escarus
Quid sit elkimia etc.
Elkimia est ars ministralis essentiam vii metallorum continens.
-et apparebit aurum purissimum.
f.133 3. Inc. interrogationes Regis Khalid et responsiones morieni de omnibus in quibus tota efficacia magisterii hermetis constare probatur
O moriene primum querere libet.
Ends imperfectly on f.138b. The end is supplied on two vellum leaves by de Wes.
Expl. Dial. inter morien. et Reg. Kalid. super composicione
cap. philos. translates de arabico in latinum Mo. Co. octuagesimo 2 o mense febr. die xia viiia hora eiusdem diet.
V. Cent. xv, xvi, by de Wes.
f.141b 1. Inc. liber Alfidii philosophi
Scito fili.
f.148 2. Chalid
Inquit Chalit.
f.149b 3. Sequitur tractatulus quidem extractus de quodam libro galico intit. Roman rose Composito per mag. Job. de Meun etc.
Ars uolens naturam
Suam imitare dominam etc.
At end. Si quis me culpauerit propter cruditatem vocabulorum atque incongruitatem faciat ipse melius hortor
Egid. de Vadis.
f.150b 4. Tract. Rosini ad Euthesiam
Iam Rosine in doctrinis.
f.161b 5. Carmina Rasis
Ecce sub inmunda viridi latet anguis in unda.
f.163 6. Excellentissima lapidis philosophici descripcio
Ignis et azoc.
f.163b 7. Two chapters extracted from G. Ripley
f.165b 8. Liber cerationis
9. Liber quintationum.
Ending f.167b. f.168 blank.
On the flyleaf:
Anno 1521 f. m. p. I. m. pridie Nicolai G. d. d.
Aegidius du Wes a. de Vadis.
Receipts for
Cementum 4 or horarum.
Cementum 6. horarum.
