Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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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.

Writing

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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On a total of eleven folios throughout the volume, a 17th-century hand has written various medicinal recipes. The first folio (f. 40v) is in Latin, while ff. 83-87, 106-108, 139-40 are in English. The hand is the same throughout, and each recipe on ff. 139v-140v, has been signed 'per me Franciscus Cox'.

Writing

The hand is quite rough and hurried in places.

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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.

Writing

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

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An anonymous alchemic recipe for a solution of talc, a clay mineral. It starts on f. 73r with the words Recipe talch et ignitum extingue in aceto and ends on f. 73v with the words et recipe oleum quod distillabitur nam incombustile est.

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A recipe for the calcination of a mineral. It begins with the words Toy tuciam der kot say and ends with es gerecht.

Writing

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