[Alchemical miscellany]

University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

96 leaves : paper ; 346 x 223 mm bound to 351 x 226 mm; Binding: Contemporary limp vellum with monogram HB on upper cover and title Alchemy on spine; binding loose; vellum cover split and cracked at spine; cover completely detached from front hinge and spine, coming loose from back hinge. Several quires loose; f. 48-49 completely detached..; Collation: Paper, 96; 1¹⁰, 2¹⁴, 3¹⁰, 4¹⁶, 5¹⁰, 6¹⁴, 7¹⁰, 8¹⁰(+2); [i], 1-10, [11-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper and lower right recto. Catchwords in lower right, each recto, of texts 4 and 6. Link to collation model at end of record.; English, with many works translated from Latin and retaining Latin titles.; Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in England, after 1582 (f. 43r) and before 1630 (Newhauser, p. 122-123).; Script: Written in a cursive script, erroneously identified as the hand of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (see note on f. [i]), more likely the hand of the first owner, H. Bayle (see R. Newhauser's article, p. 123).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-10r: [The marrow of alchemy] / George Ripley. -- 2. f.10v-12v: [George Ripley unto King Edward IV] / George Ripley. -- 3. f.13r-30v: Twelve gates / George Ripley. -- 4. f.31r-32v: [Note of our fires without the knowledge wherof our mastery is not performed] / George Ripley. -- 5. f.33r-34v: [Recipes / George Ripley] -- 6. f.35r-36v: A Partiall abridgemente of all the writinge of George Ripley. -- 7. f.36v-40v: An accurtation / of Raymonde [Llull] -- 8. f.40v-41r: Another speciall worke of the basiliske. -- 9. f.41v-42r: [Accurtation with "A very stronge vyneger" and "A worke in the mynerall stone" / Ramón Llull] -- 10. f.42v: [Sayings / Guido de Montanor] -- 11. f.42v-43r: The dreame / of Sir George Ripley (1582) -- 12. f.43r-44v: A Secrete [with The visyon, Recapitulatio] / [George Ripley] -- 13. f.44v-47r: The testamente / of Geber the philosopher. -- 14. f.47r-51r: The Mirrour of Alkemy. -- 15. f.51v-52r: [Poems / Pearce, the Black Monk] -- 16. f.52r-53v: The Calander of Principells. -- 17. f.54r-57r: Liber multipherie. -- 18. f.57r-58r: Concordance betwene Raymonde [Lull] and Guydo [de Montanor] / George Ripley. -- 19. f.58v-59r: The lawes of philosophers. -- 20. f.59v-61r: Dialogue [Tractatus duo chemici?] / Sir Hollande. -- 21. f.61v: A generall rule for all men that intendeth to be philosophers. -- 22. f.62r-62v: The moste shorteste & the most lighteste way & the least [?] that can be done in this arte or science [with Another manner & way to make the culxes of Sol and comon m[?]nry fixed both togethers] -- 23. f.63r-70r: The psalter of Philosophers. -- 24. f.70r-74r: Accurtation / Raymonde [Llull]. -- 25. f.74r-75v: The practice of the Philosophers / [Ramón Llull?] -- 26. f.76r-77v: [Upon the elixir / Pearce, the Black Monk] -- 27. f.77v: The philosophers stone. -- 28. f.78r-78v: A treatis of the vertus of rosemary / Arnaldus de Villanova. -- 29. f.79r-80v: Notabell lessons chosen or picked owte of the work of Guydo [de Montanor] / [George Ripley] -- 30. f.80v: [Poem "Owte of the darknes I will leade you"] -- 31. f.81r-83v: Epistula ad papa[m] / [Arnaldus de Villanova]. -- 32. f.84r: Stella complexionis is the father of truthe / Constantinus Africanus. -- 34. f.84v-91v: [Answers to questions posed by the Archbishop of Rheims / William de Cenes (Comes? Genes?)] -- 35. f.94r-95r: Alegory contaynynge perfectly the moste profounde secrettes of the philosophers stone [Merlini Allegoria].; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Watermarks: See The New Briquet, v. 1, p. 72, no. 8081 (Nicholas le Bé of Tryes, ca. 1582).