London, Wellcome Institute MS. 385.

London, Wellcome Institute MS. 385.
16 + 313 folios. 240x170mm. 16th Century [c.1565.]
f2 [Heading]: 'Thesaurus thesaurorum. Rosarius philosophorum.'
1. ff3-14 Arnoldus de Villanova. Rosarius I.
2. ff14-21 Arnoldus de Villanova. Perfectum magisterium.
3. ff21-27v Arnoldus de Villanova. Novum lumen.
4. ff27v-30 Arnoldus de Villanova. Epistola ad regem Neapolitanum.
5. ff30-52 Arnoldus de Villanova. Rosarius II.
6. ff52-61v [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Italian and Latin.]
7. ff61-67v Dicta Philosophorum.
8. ff67v-73 [Anon.] De auro potabile.
9. ff74-84 Hortulanus. Super textum Hermetis.
10. ff 84v-85v Elixir sive menstruum rubeum.
11. ff85v-90 Arnoldus de Villanova. Quaestiones.
12. ff90v-92v [Alchemical poems in Latin and Italian.]
13. ff93-106v Christophorus Parisiensis. Practica.
14. f107 [Alchemical receipts in Latin and Italian.
15. ff108-113v St. Albertus Magnus. Semita recta I.
16. ff114-115v Arnoldus de Villanova. Visio mystica.
17. f116 [Latin verses on alchemy, and a receipt in Italian.]
18. f117-124v R. Lullius. Epistola accurtationis.
19. ff125-127 [Alchemical receipts in Italian and Latin.]
20. ff128-133 De sublimationibus.
21. ff133-140 Fragmenta alchemica.
22. ff140-162 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, in Latin and Italian.]
23. ff163-167v J. de Rupescissa. Liber Lucis.
24. ff168-171 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, in Latin.]
25. ff172-174 R. Lullius. [Fragmenta.]
26. ff175-183 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Latin and Italian.]
27. ff183v-187v St. Albertus Magnus. Semita recta II.
28. ff188-199 Frater Johannes Baptista. 'Vera et aprobatta ars mineralis...'
29. ff200-221 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Italian and Latin.]
30. ff222-240 Rosinus. De lapide philosophorum.
31. ff240-257 [Miscellaneous receipts, in Latin and Italian.]
32. ff257-263(7) J. de Rupescissa. De consideratione quintae essentiae.
33. ff263(7)-265 [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Latin and Italian.]
34. ff265v-269v [Frater, Joannes Baptista?] 'Particulare qui puotest [sic] disi lapis.'
35. ff270v-274v [[Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Latin.]
36. ff274v-278v Antonius de Abbatia. Epistola.
37. ff278v-288 [Frater Joannes Baptista.] Tractatus.
38. ff288-290v Lapis Hispanus [in Spanish.]
39. ff290v-292v [Miscellaneous alchemical receipts, etc. in Spanish and Italian.]
40. ff292v-307 Joannes Baptista Montanus. De urinis.
41. ff308-308v Alphidius. Libellus isagogus [incomplete.]
[Illustrated with rough pen drawings of alchemical apparatus, and a full page 'alchemical tree' diagram.]
[The contents bear a strong resemblance to the alchemical collection 'Verae alchemiae artisque metallicae...', published by G. Gratarolo at Basle in 1561.]
[From the Julius Kohn library.]