Sloane MS 1098

Sloane 1098

Paper, in small quarto, ff. 50; XVI century; written by the same hand as the last described; bound with no. 1099.

Collections on Alchemy; among which the following may be noticed:-

1. Various excerpts in English and Latin. f. 2.

2. Abbreviated copy of George Ripley’s "Mystery of Alchymists." f . 5.

Begin: "When Sol in Aries, and Phoebus shynes bryghte."

Printed in Ashmole’s Theatrum Chymicum, p. 380.

3. Twelve verses on alchymy. f. 7. b.

Begin: Wyth hic and haec thus maye ye doe."

Printed ibid. p. 432.

4. Fourteen verses on the same subject. f. 7. b.

Begin: "I am Mercurye; the mightyest flos florum."

Compare art. 46, and Ms. Sloane 1092. f. 13. b.

5. Several other poetical fragments on alchymy. ff. 7.b-8

Begin: "My husband and I shall encrease frute beeane."

"Owre principalle ys one thynge."

See Ashmole’s Theatrum Chymicum, p.352.

"Owre stone made of one simple thynge."

See ibid. p. 352.

"Owre aurum potabile nature encreasyth."

See ibid. p. 353.

"Common [symbol] and gold we none occupye."

See ibid. p. 354.

"I Mercurye am she whiche wyse men seeke."

See ibid. p. 356.

"Owre Mercurye is but of one thynge."

See ibid. p. 356.

6. "The versys of Merlyn." f. 8. b.

Begin: "Soothely theare ys an ayerye stone."

7. Thirty verses on the same subject. f. 9.

Begin: "I shall yowe tell with hearte mode."

Printed in Ashmole’s Theatrum Chymicum. p. 350.

8. Forty other similar verses. f. 9.

Begin: "Here ys an hearbe men call lunarye."

Printed ibid. p. 348.

9. Alchymical verses, intitled by Ashmole, "The worke of Richard Carpenter." f. 10.

Begin: "Of Titan magnesia take the cleere ly-ghte."

Printed ibid. p. 275.

10. Fourteen verses on the same subject. f. 11.

Begin: "God made bothe Angell and heaven."

Printed ibid. p. 211.

11. Versus octo de lapide orbiculari." f. 11. b.

Incip. "Gemma salutaris, quae nascitur orbicularis."

12. Versus sedecim. f. 11. b.

Incip. "Est lapis occultus et in imo fonte sepultus."

13. Poem, intitled by Ashmole "Experience and Philosophy." f. 12.

Begin: "Have ye not hearde, ye pryncesse greate, ye lordes and ladyes alle."

Printed in Ashmole’s Theatrum Chymicum. p. 336.

14. Thirteen verses. f. 14. b.

Begin: "There ys a bodye of a bodye, and a sowle and a spiritte."

Printed ibid. p. 434.

15. Thirty-six verses. f. 14.b

Begin: "In the moneth of June and Julye."

16. Three Latin verses, with an English translation in rhyme. f. 11.

Begin: "Si noveris in te quid portas; quid valeatve."

17. Thirty-six verses. f. 15. b.

Begin: "Theare is a welle wythin this towne."

18. Sixteen verses. f. 16.

Begin: "when thou canste bothe earthe and tree."

19. Ten verses. f. 16.

Begin: "Take harde heavye hotte and drye."

20. Extracts from Nortons Ordinall. f. 16. b.

Printed in Ashmole’s Theatrum Chymicum, p. 41. l. 5

21. Verses taken from Chaucer’s tale of the "Chanon’s Yeoman." f. 17. b.

Printed ibid. p. 254. l. 24

22. Fourteen verses, extracted from "Pearce, the Black Monk." f. 18.

Compare ibid. p. 273.

23. Eleven verses extracted from the same poem. f. 18. b.

Compare ibid. p. 274.

24. Twelve verses, extracted from the poem called "Pater Sapientiae." f. 18. b.

Printed in Ashmole. p. 201.

25. Verses, f. 19.

Begin: "Take of the Egre bloodde that ys so redde."

Printed ibid. p. 362.

26. Pearce, The Black Monk upon the Elixir; with the two fragments at the end. f.19.b.

Begin: "Take earthe of earthe and earthes brother."

Printed ibid. pp. 269, 428.

27. Another copy of the commencement of the same poem. f. 22.

Begin: "Take earthe of earthe, earthes brother."

28. Eight stanzas, extracted from Ripley’s Epistle to Edw. IV. f. 22. b.

Printed in Ashmole, p. 111.

29. Forty-two verses on Alchymy. f. 23. b.

Begin: "Of the sonne take the lyghte."

30. The verses belonging to an emblematical scroll, supposed to be invented by George Ripley, f. 24.

Begin: "On the grownde there is an hylle."

Printed by Ashmole, p.375, but in different order.

31. Twelve verses , f. 25. b.

Begin: "Of the soonne take cleere lyghte."

Compare art. 29.

32. Thirteen verses. f. 26.

Begin: "In man are 4 elementes compowndyd by nature."

33. Two stanzas, taken from Ripley’s "Erroneous experiments." f. 26. b.

Printed in Ashmole, p. 192.

34. Versus tredecim "ex vetustissimo manuscripto." f. 26. b.

Incip. "Versus in immundam vitalis fluminis undam."

35. Versus circiter triginta inscripti "Somnium." f. 27.

Incip. "Auratas alas mihi sol videbatur habere."

36. Ripley’s vision, in Latin verse. f. 27. b.

Incip. "Bufonem rubeum vidi potare liquorem."

37. Twenty-four verses. f. 28.

Begin: "The furyouse starre redde."

38. Several fragments of Latin verse on alchymy. f. 28. b.

39. Thirty-seven four-line stanzas. f. 29. b.-32.

Begin: "In the partes of Rome the weddynge of Mercury."

40. Poem ascribed to George Ripley. f. 33.

Begin: "Take heavy, softe, colde and drye."

Printed by Ashmole, p. 393.

41. Ten verses f. 34.

Begin: "There ys one mettalle in the worlde rownde."

42. Versus Latini "ex vetusto manuscripto." f. 34. b.

"Mercurii crudi 6 partes, septima luna."

43. Versus alii "ad convertendum lunam in solem." f. 34. b.

Incip. "In speciem solis lunam convertere si vis."

44. An exposition on the words, "Take wynde, water white and greene." f. 36.

45. ""A definition of the philosopher’s stone"; in verse. f. 38.

Begin: "Take the trinitye, wyth his myghte."

46. Twenty-two verses f. 38.

Begin: "I am [symbol] myghtye flos florum." Cf. art. 4.

47. "The wourckinge of the stone."; in forty-four lines. f. 38. b.

Begin: "Nowe every man in hys degree."

48. Directions in prose, f. 39.

Begin: "Nowe wylle I cleerely declare unto yowe alle the makynge of our Elixir."

49. "Carmina Dominici." f. 40.

Incip. "Sinite corruptibilia, sales et alumina."

50. Eighteen verses, forming the "Conclusion" to Bloomfield’s "Blossoms." f. 41. b.

Begin: "Oure maystrye is iij, ij, and one."

Printed in Ashmole, p. 323.

51. Two stanzas extracted from Bloomfield’s "Blossoms." f. 41. b.

Printed in Ashmole, p. 315.

52. Extracts from Norton’s "Ordinall." f. 42.

Printed ibid. p. 76

53. "Carmen perpulchrum totum opus enucleans." ff. 43. b.-46.

Incip: "En philosophantium hac in cantilena."

In fine "Aegidius de vadis."

54. "Versus seguentes continent totam artem alchymiae." f. 46. b.

Incip. "Est fons in limis cuius latet Anguis in imis."

55. Eighteen verses, f. 46. b.

Begin: "The spiritte of Mars ryghte am I called."

56. Twenty verses, f. 47.

Begin: "Take Earthe of earthe wyth hys Brethren."

57. Eighteen verses. f. 47. b.

Begin: I am the greene serpente of Arabie."

58. About one humdred verses. f. 47. b.

Begin: "When Phoebus with his Rayes Bryghte."

Throughout this manuscript marginal notes and excerpts are added, and itemised, in Latin.

Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt.

includes:

• ff. 5, 22 b, 24, 26 b, 27 b, 33 George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Treatises on alchemy, in prose and verse: 16th-17th centt.
• f. 8 b Merlin: Alchemical verses.: 15th-17th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• f. 10 Richard Carpenter: Alchemical verses: 16th cent.
• ff. 16 b, 42 Thomas Norton, of Bristol: Extracts from Chapt. iii: 16th cent.
• f. 17 b Geoffrey Chaucer: Extract from the " Chanon's Yeoman": 16th cent.
• ff. 18, 18 b, 19 b, 22 Pearce, the Black Monk: Verses on the Elixir: 15th-17th cent.
• f. 41 b William Blomefield, MB: Alchemical verses from his " Blossoms": 16th cent.
• ff. 43 b-45 b Ægidius de Vadis: Carmen alchemicum: 16th cent.