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An alchemic recipe which begins with the words Primo purga pone and ends with argenti fixi et funde in ca[...] et habebis.

Contents Two recipes for solutions which dissolve.First recipe: it begins on f. 86r and it is introduced by the rubricated words Aqua que fit ex alumine vulcani solvens omnia solutione subita. The recipe starts with the words [R]ecipe alume de vulcano et distilla and ends on f. 86v with the words sine igne aqua evaporante.Second recipe: on...

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An alchemic recipe on the congealing of mercury. It begins with the words Accipe de eo quantum vis et pone in cucurbitam tectam and ends with quum voluerit facere multitudinem bonam habet gratiam.

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Possibly written by one of the hands at work in some of the other recipes.

Contents The short text is an alchemic recipe presented as a letter and identified by the copist as Epistola pulchra ad lunam (the word luna in alchemy indicates silver). The text begins on f. 74r with the words Magnifice mi domine singularissime ista est recepta per ordinem sicut expertus fui de aqua; it ends on f. 75r with the words Ideo reiteranda solutio et congelatio ut...

Contents An index of the alchemic recipes contained in the Experimenta (ff. 2-68v), organised in two columns and with indication of folio numbers.It begins on f. 121r with the words Sic calcinatur luna. Fixio mercurii and ends on f. 123r with separacio auri ab argento ad clarificandos oculos. Writing Seemingly written by the same hand of the...

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An alchemic recipes which beings with the words Recipe saturnum eumque sepe purga and ends with argentum et aurum remes quod scias pro vero.

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Written in the same cursive hand of the previous recipe (in German).

Contents A collection of alchemic prescriptions which appears to be loosely based on the Pseudo-Aristotelian De perfecto magisterio: many of the prescriptions appear in both works in the same order, although the text contained in this manuscripts offers a narrower selection of abridged recipes. Some prescriptions seem gathered together according to a specific principle: those copied in ff. 63r-65r, for example, all concern separatio...

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Short recipe.

Contents This folio (f. 141v) contains a short recipe to obtain potable gold, titled Ad Stillandum aurum potabile. Potable gold was thought to be medicinal, so this recipe probably relates to the De Medicinis Secretissimis in the previous section. Recipes such as this have also been wrongly attributed to Ramon Llull. Writing This section is written in the same hand as the previous...

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The final folios of MS 175 contain notes and recipes to drive away plague. f. 183r is mainly a list of supplies/ingredients, for instance Rhubarbarum. Ff. 184v-185r and ff. 187r-191v also contain recipes and charms.

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F. 183r is by a fourth hand, ff. 184-5are by a different, fifth hand, and the final folios are by another hand.