Catalogue Notice:
ALCHEMICA.
Cent. xv.
On the first leaves a tract has been begun and not finished.
The opening words are:
Florentissime zelator sapiencie.
Two pages and a few lines are written. f.1 1. Bacon, in epistola ad Clementem papam Cap. 1
Secundum quod sunt 4 or elementa sic sunt quatuor corpora quorum quodlibet componitur ex elementis sed ex uno per dominium.
Ends f.3b: Et quanto magis iste ordo iteretur tanto magis augmentatur sna claritas et uirtus.
Expl. tres medicine lapidis.
2. Receipt.
f.3b Recipe sulphur (vif) quantum uolueris
f.4 3. Morienus in ro(sario) libro 19
Verum cum secundum initium materie.
Further extracts from the Rosarium f.5b 9, 10b, 16 etc. continuing to f.33 where there is a rubric.
Prima pars huius libri morieni in Ro. est in libro 19 in fine libri in hoc signo +.
f.33 Lines
Rerum iuncturam coitus notat et genituram etc.
f.33b 4. Modus faciendi vermyon probatus
With diagram of furnace.
f.36 5. Ue opinionibus operantium lio primo Ego B querens veritatem.
f.40 6. Inc. Receptum Johannis Vienensis Recipe cuiuscunque uolueris corporis. f.41b 7. Receptum Rogeri bacon de lapide Ignis et adok tibi sufficiunt.
f.42 8. Receptum cuiusdam fratris
Item accipe lapidem benedictum.
f.42b 9. Other receipts 'cuiusdam subtilis philosophi'
f.45 10. Receipts from 'Bacon lio 2 o' f.57 11. Inc. Semita recta Alkymie Alberti Omnis sapiencia a deo est.
f.83 12. Receipts: headline 'domylton libro 4 o'
f.86 13. Receipts: headline Figer pandofali lio 6 o
f.92 14. Extract from Morienus in rosario
Other extracts from this occur throughout the remainder of the volume. f.93 15. Johannes de mor' mortuo
f.93b 16. Verses: Candida cum rubeo
f.95b 17. Bacon de lapide
Reuolui lapidem.
f.100b 18. Hermes libro 7 o
Legimus in hystoriis ueterum dierum. f.118b 19. Dancius philosophus