Contents This anonymous text could be related to an alchemical work on mercuryi attributed to Roger Bacon (1219/20 - 1292), English philosopher and Franciscan friar.The texts begins on f. 90v and it is introduced by the rubric Aqua congelans mercurium sine sublimatione et aliqua mortificatione. It starts with the words Accipe aquilam volantem; it ends on f. 100v with the words pulverizati ut...

Scope and Contents Small label affixed reads 'Extracts by Charles Lyell Prose & Verse - Crown Office Temple Row'. Commonplace book of notes and quotations compiled by Lyell when a practicing barrister in London in his early twenties. The book is inscribed with his address: 9 Crown Office Row, Temple, where he moved in 1826 after vacating the cramped quarters he had known as a law student in nearby Norfolk Street (no longer in existence, checked 2021). This Notebook is paginated. Insertion at the front of...

Contents The manuscript contains a couple of sections taken from an alchemical compendium attributed to Roger Bacon (1219/20-1292), English philosopher and Franciscan friar. Dorothea Waley Singer identifies these sections as pertaining to the Breve breviarium, also attributed to Roger Bacon, but the scribe refers explicitly to experiments and these excerpts might be taken from another work.The first section begins on f. 88v and it is introduced by the...