The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

I. 

1. f.i List of Authors cited

2. f.iiib George Ripley's [or Thomas Norton's?] Ordinale Secretorum in Latin verse

Liber iste clericis monstrat scientiam

liber sed laicis auget iustitiam.

3. f.1 Prohemium libri I. qui intitulatur ordinale secretorum

To the honour of God one in persons three

this boke ys made that laymen shulde yt see.

It is in seven chapters in English verse and ends on f.75b.

In the yere of christ a Mt cccc seventie and seven

this worke beganne honour to god in heven.

Explicit.

Scribbles about the date and about the author (Ripley) follow.

II. 

f.1 Liber Chymicus

Omnis gratia et sapientia a domino deo... ab initio fuit.

Ends f.6a

Nos pater et nate cum flamine sanctificate.

f.6a Capitulum primum essentia lapidis cum praeparatione calcinativa

Ego iam Yrefacius nomine Benedictus ne ut precursores invidi trufator iudicer.

In 13 chapters and an epilogue, which ends with verses.

hoc opus exegi sit summo gloria regi

Gloria sit illi finem ponendo labori

Circa natale quod est tempus hiemale,

Anno milleno tricentissimo nonogeno.

Sit celo locatus author cirencestria natus

pro ipso cari pluries curate preccari.

Mensse Maii per Fretwell 1594 ex libro autentico authoris manu scripto 1390. membrana.

Roberts, J., and A. G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue (London, 1990), DM10

Timmermann, A., 'Alchemy in Cambridge: An Annotated Catalogue of Alchemical Texts and Illustrations in Cambridge Repositories', Nuncius, 30 (2015), p. 440