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'Notes upon ye working of ---': an account of a purification of vitriol, which took 6 months to accomplish.
Miscellaneous fragmentary alchemical notes
Short extracts from an assortment of alchemical writers (early to mid-1670s).
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'Pearce the black Monck upon ye Elixir': an alchemical verse allegory, 226 lines.
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'Liber Mercurioum [sic: leg. 'Mercuriorum'] Corporum' (1668-75).
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Miscellaneous alchemical notes
Notebook containing little but headings ('De Sale'; 'Solutio'; 'Conjunctio et Liquefactio'; 'Imbibitio & Calcinatio', etc.), with gaps for entries left blank apart from a few perfunctory notes in Latin.
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'Notanda chemica'
Twelve small bundles of alchemical notes and extracts from a very wide range of sources.
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'Theatrum Astronomiæ Terrestris': copy of a treatise on the Philosophers' Stone and transmutation, with 2 astronomico-alchemical diagrams.
Incomplete abstract of Yworth's 'Processus Mysterii Magni Philosophicus' condensed into five chapters (c. early 1690s).
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'The Seven Chapters' (late 1680s-1690s) plus notes and an unrelated draft letter.
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Two sets of notes.
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A list of 113 alchemical authors, categorised by nationality, and eight anonymous works.
Incomplete variant copy of William Yworth, 'Processus Mysterij Magni Or An Open Entrance to the Great Mysteries of the Ancient Philosophers', in a clerical hand.
Highly technical notes in Latin and English on the distillation of salt.
'Clavis': detailed directions for a lengthy alchemical operation beginning with the digestion of antimony, iron and sulphur.
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Verse extracts from Hadrian Mynsicht, 'Aureum sæculum redivivum' and 'Testamentum Hadrianeum de aureo Phorem [according to the Sotheby catalogue, though 'Ph[ilosoph]orum is surely intended] lapide', with a diagram, c. 300 lines in all.
Newton's copy of Geber's Chimia (Latin translation by Caspar Horn, 1668), with Latin notes in his hand on both flyleaves elucidating some of Geber's terminology.
Notes on sublimation, the Stone, the tincture, etc..
'The Regimen' (early 1680s).
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'Of Chemicall Authors & their writings' (c. 1670-75).
Notes on various (al)chemical processes (separations, processions, sublimations, distillations, etc.).
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Three lists of alchemical writers and works, partly on the reverse of Mint-related material
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'Of ye first Gate'
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