Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1486.

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1486.
68 + 75 folios + 69 pages + 22 folios. Paper. Folio. 16th and 17th Centuries.
[Volume of six manuscripts bound together, "This is Robarte Garlandes booke, practizioner in the arte spagyricke, anno Do. 1596."]
I. 1. f1 Ad extrahendum sulphureum rubinum occultum - Sublimation argenti vivi in rubeum - Componere lutum - Mercury quickned.
2. f1-18v [A treatise of the preparation and uses of the Quintessence...]
3. f19r [Table of unfortunate and fortunate days.]
4. f19v-21v [Short treatise on quicksilver and the philosopher's stone.]
5-10. f22-27v [Medical receipts, and various alchemical recipes.]
11. f i-ii Elixir vite Orlon et Rosarius.
12. f ii-17 [A commentary on the foregoing alchemical poem, entitled "Ortolon et Rosarius".]
13. f17v-18v Nota: Orlon et Rosarius. Off the sune take the lyght."
14. f19-23v [A tract of aureum potabile and quintessence, partly extracted (in Latin) from Avicenna.]
15. f24-30v [A translation into English of the 'Breviloquium' of Johannes Pauper.]
16. f31-39 [A tract of the preparation of Quintessence.]
17. f40v [Recipe.]
II. 1. f1-3 [An alchemical fragment by Simon Forman.]
2. f4 Of the vegitable stone, the second chapter.
3. f6 Of our commixcion and working of caco, howe yt fell out...
4. f6 [The shepherd's invitation.]
5. f7-11v Of cacos philosophorum [Simon Forman.]
6-7. f12-20v [Two alchemical tracts, or fragments, subscribed "Finis 1598, Novemb. 10th. per S. Forman scirptor".
III. 1 f1 [Table of the rulers of the planets.]
2. f2-7 [Common calendar.]
3. f8 [Table of letters, with golden numbers and names of the signs.]
4. f9-14 Interrogaciones Regis Kalid, et responsiones Morieni philosophi, de thesauro thesaurorum in opere nature. Rex.
5. f15-21 Hic incipit [Ars?] arcium Alkanie. [In English. This tract contains many figures of furnaces and other vessels.]
6. f21v-24 Liber Turbe [?] philosophorum. capitulo primo. The sotel yt is fyrst mater of alle metalles mercurii and sulphour.
7. f24v-25v Septem Calves hujus sciencie. [in English.]
8. f26-27v [A work on the philosophers stone and the multiplication of the metals, in Latin.]
9. f28 [Five 'wordes' on the verse 'Gemma salutaris...']
10. f28v-29 Notabilia Philosophorum. Pictagoras saythe take ye combuste fugytyve.
11. f30 Septem condiciones hujus materie.
12. f31-38v Opera Aristotilis.
13. f39-40v [An alchemical tract in four chapters 'Ignotius. Wnderstonde. That when or mater felythe our sune anone he is losyd into water'.
14. f41 To know the nature off phylosophye. It is opyn and playne yt ye operacion of our medycyne is ye operacion of nature.
15. f42v-48r Liber Multipharie. Her begynnyth a compendyose abstract of Alkany, drauyn oute of Latyn, uppone whate wyse ye schalle werke wt oute erroure unto a trewe conclucyone of a perfyte elyxere for ye white and for ye rede.
16. f49v-71v Her begynnyth ye Compownd off Alkamy, made by chanon of Bryglyngtowne [George Ripley.]
17. f72v Blamekym [Superscribed "A conjecturall interpretacion of Rypley", but imperfect as f73 is missing.]
18. f74-75 [The alchemical Vision of John Dastin.]
IV. 1. f2 [Alchemical directions written in code.]
2. f3-11 [A translation into English of the fialogue between King Khalid and Morien the Philosopher.]
3. f12-14v Lyllies Blkfmk. Here beginneth ye exposytion upon the practice of a certeine booke called Lyllies Alkemy, by ye woorshipfull prence Sy Symond de Falksted Archbyschop of Treverens.
4. f15v-16 [Recipe.]
5. f17-18v A most true and perfict woorke of Fryer Roger Bacon.
6. f19-21 De arte alchemistica compendium.
7-9. f22 [Recipes.]
10. f23-32 [A translation of the alchemical work of John Sawter or Sawtre, monk of Thorney.]
11. f33-34v Opus particulare ex veris procedens principiis...
12. f34v [Two precepts concerning the alchemical work, of which the second is written in code.]
V. [This part of the MS. is written by the hand of John Dee.]
1. 2pp. [Journal of a process in John Dee's laboratory at Mortlake, from Friday the 4th of November 1607 to 21st January 1608.]
2. p1-18 George Ryppley's Bosome-booke or Vade-mecum.
3. p19-25 George Rypleis Practise by experience of the stone. [Same as MS. Ashmole 1485 III. 13.]
4. p25-27 Rypleye's vegetable water or vegetable menstruum, out of his Philorsium.
5-15. p28-44 [Various alchemical recipes and experiments.]
16. p45-51 Joannis Isaci tractatus de [antimony], ex Flandrico sermone in Latinum translatus per Jacobum de Semore, anno 1578 in honorem Mr Diee.
17. p52-54 [Alchemical recipe. Note at end by Dee says that the powder was found within the cover of a book, and projection was made with it, by the young Fleming, at Prague.]
18-27. p54-69 [Various alchemical receipts and experiments.]
VI. f3-10v Clavicula Raymundi Lullij Majoricani, que dicitur Apertorium [English translation.]
f20v [Recipe.]