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THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, from the British Library, London

Part 5: Alchemy, Chemistry and Magic

CONTENTS OF REELS
(with summary list of key items)

REEL 76

Sloane Ms 2157: (14th c)
Avicenna, Libri Canonis, translated by Gerard of Cremona

Sloane Ms 2174: (16th –17th c)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Clavicula (ff40-44)
Ripley, George, Compound of alchemy in prose (ff73-85)
Norton, Thomas, The ordinal of alchemy, (ff89-116)
 
Sloane Ms 2198: (17th c)
Ripley, George, Compound of alchemy in verse


REEL 77

Sloane Ms 2206: (17th c)
Anon, Introduction to chemistry

Sloane Ms 2218: (17th c)
Anon, A looking glasse for illiterate alchymists

Sloane Ms 2264: (17th c)
Anon, Course of chemistry

Sloane Ms 2320: (16th c)
Aristiotle, Letters to Alexander (ff10-13)
Bacon, Roger, Summaria expositio epistola practica (ff27-29)
Arnald of Villanova, Tractatus de vinis (ff32-54)
Bacon, Roger, De retardatione senectutis (ff56-64)
Anon, De arte magicali (ff65-69)
Bacon, Roger, Tract  (ff73-93)

Sloane Ms 2322: (15th c)
Anon, Chemical receipts (ff4-134) (15th c)
Bacon, Roger, De quintae essentiae (ff135-168)

Sloane Ms 2325: (15th c)
Geber, Turba philosophorum (ff1-6)
Rasis, Practica (ff12-14)
Arnald of Villanova, Rosarius philosophorum (ff22-39)
Bacon, Roger, Speculum alchimiae (ff44-46)
 

REEL 78

Sloane Ms 2327: (14th c)
Arnald of Villanova, De secretis naturae (ff2-4)
Hermes Trismegistus, De lapide philosophico (f4)
Aristotle, letter to Alexander (f5v)
Morienus, Secunda confectio ex ejus dictis (f6)
Rasis, Practica (f10v)
Merlin, De expositione lapidis philosophici (f11b) verses (f22)
Hermes Trismegistus, De transmutatione corporum (f14)
Hermes Trismegistus, Opus minerale (ff15-20)
Morienus, De expositione lapidis benedicti (ff17-20)
Bacon, Roger, Tractatus trium verborum (ff 25-26, 35)
Hermes Trismegistus, Tabula Smaragdina (ff28-30)
Bacon, Roger, opus alchemicum (ff30-33)
Bacon, Roger, Speculum alchimiae (ff36-38)
Morienus, De expositione specierum (f38)
Zadith filius Hamuel, Tabula chymica (f39-57)

Sloane Ms 2459: (15th c)
Miriam the prophetess, Practice of alchemy (ff1-3)
Anon, Chemical receipts (ff3-9)
Aristotle, on herbs (ff10-16)
 
Sloane Ms 2464: (15th c)
Aristotle, Secreta secretorum, translated by John Lydgate

Sloane Ms 2476: (15th c)
Dastyn, John, Hermetical tracts (ff1-68)
Arnald of Villanova, Rosarius philosophorum (ff11-39)

Sloane Ms 2479: (12th - 15th c)
Arnald of Villanova, Theorica et practica (ff 77-80)


REEL 79

Sloane Ms 2503: (17th c)
Alchemical processes (ff1-61)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Table of stones, metals and elixirs (f107)
Anaxagoras, Natural conversations (ff108-123)
 
Sloane Ms 2517: (17th c)
Synesius, Le vray livre de la pierre philosopale (ff63-71)

Sloane Ms 2523B: (16th c)
Ripley, George, Rotuli hieroglyphici Pantarvae Philosophorum

Sloane Ms 2524A: (16th c)
Ripley, George, Rotuli hieroglyphici Pantarvae Philosophorum

Sloane Ms 2532: (17th c)
Norton, Thomas, The ordinal of alchemy, (ff1-50)
Geber, Testament (ff74-76)
Bloomefield, William, The Campe of philosophie (ff77-85)
 
Sloane Ms 2560: (15th c)
Arnald of Villanova, Alchemical extracts (fine illustrations)

Sloane Ms 2624: (17th c)
Flamel, Nicholas, Le Sommaire Philosophique (ff2-9)
Kelley, Edward, Quaedam ex ejus epistolis (ff17-20)

Sloane Ms 2629: (17th c)
Bacon, Roger, On Theology (ff2-16)
Bacon, Roger, De utilitate Astronomiae (ff17-56)
Tritheim, Johann Orationes (ff62-65)


REEL 80

Sloane Ms 2764: (16th - 17th c)
Merlin, Metrical prophecies (f118)
Tritheim, Johann, Clavis steganographiae (f198)

Sloane Ms 2795: (14th c)
Gerard of Cremona, Ptolemaei Pelusiensis liber Almagesti in Latinum versus

Sloane Ms 2947: (14th c)
Rasis, Liber II (ff2-66) and Liber Divisionum (ff67-97) translated by Gerard of Cremona

Sloane Ms 3086: (17th c)
Paracelsus, Four alchemical treatises (ff1-39)
Anaxagoras, Natural conversations (ff48-53)
Arnald of Villanova, Flos florum (ff69-75)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Liber lucis mercuriorum (ff77-79)
Pythagoras, the golden table (ff100-107)
 

REEL 81

Sloane Ms 3095: (14th c)
Avicenna, Liber canonis tercius (ff1-374) translated by Gerard of Cremona
Avicenna, Canonis medicinae (ff375-432) translated by Gerard of Cremona
Avicenna, Quadem et antidotario (ff432v) translated by Gerard of Cremona
Avicenna, Synonima (ff433-441) translated by Gerard of Cremona
Avicenna, Expositiones secundum (ff442-444) translated by Gerard of Cremona


REEL 82

Sloane Ms 3096: (13th - 14th c)
Constantini Africani, Viaticum (ff1-69) translated by Gerard of Cremona
Giraud of Paris and Gerard of Cremona, Gloss on the Viaticum (ff70-220)


REEL 83

Sloane Ms 3118: (17th c)
Paracelsus, Fourteen treatises/excerpts (ff338-429, 521-649)


REEL 84

Sloane Ms 3120: (16th c)
Geber, Perfectionis secundum Audomarum (ff145-173)
Albertus Magnus, De alchemia (ff174-192)
 
Sloane Ms 3171: (15th c)
Bacon, Roger, De compositione quinte essentia (ff16-94)
John de Rupecissa, De quinta essentia (ff16-94)

Sloane Ms 3180: (17th c)
Albertus Magnus, Semita recta (ff1-11)
Albertus Magnus, Compositum de composotis (ff12-13)

Sloane Ms 3281: (13th - 14th c)
Anon, on arithmetic (ff2-11)
Albertus Magnus, Experimenta physica (ff15-19)
Aristotle, On physiognomy (ff19, 21-23)

Sloane Ms 3318: (17th c)
Lombard, Robert, Elementa Magica


REEL 85

Sloane Ms 3437: (17th c)
Anon, Institutiones chiromanticae
 
Sloane Ms 3528: (17th c)
A catalogue of the rarities in the antomic chamber of Leyden

Sloane Ms 3531: (15th c)
Rasis, Experimenta (ff20-29)
Hippocrates, De signis mortis (ff33-34)

Sloane Ms 3556: (14th -15th c)
Merlin, Metrical prophecies (f9)
Anon, Praecepta mystica (ff11-15)
 

REEL 86

Sloane Ms 3580A: (17th c)
Pythagoras, The golden table, Sphera Pythagorie (ff3-6, 234)
Hermes Trismegistus, Tabula Smaragdina (ff23v-31)
Ripley, George, Compound of alchemy (ff140-166)
Ripley, George, Alchemical tables (ff237-239)

Sloane Ms 3604: (16th c)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Ars magica (ff2-8)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Lucidarium testamenti (ff9-14)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, De lapide philosophico (ff15-23)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Lapidarius (ff23-39)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Ars brevis (ff39-63)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Distinctiones tertia et quarta (ff65-95)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Vade mecum (ff97-106)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Practica (ff106-141)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Testamentum (ff144-219)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Testamentum cum cantilena (ff220-287)
 

REEL 87

Sloane Ms 3628: (17th c)
Conferences with angels

Sloane Ms 3630: (17th c)
Albertus Magnus, Compositum de compositis (ff70-74)
Bernardus, Trevisanus, De lapide philosophorum (ff75-86)
Ripley, George, A portion of the first gate of the Compound of Alchemy (f87)
Sandivogius, Michael, De Lapide Philosophorum (ff102-112)

Sloane Ms 3632: (17th c)
Bernardus, Trevisanus, On the transmutation of metal (ff10-27)
Geber, Three medicines (ff41-108)
Kellum, Robert, Chemical and alchemical processes (ff133-138)
Ripley, George, Epistle on alchemy (ff139-142)
Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetick raptures, a poem (ff148-187)
 
Sloane Ms 3638: (16th c)
Guido de Monator, De arte chymica, chapters 4-6 (ff31-40)
Aquinas, Thomas, De turba minori philosophorum (ff92-128)
Ficino, Marsiglio, De arte chymica (ff129-188)


REEL 88

Sloane Ms 3640: (17th c)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, The Codicill, or Goe with me (ff1-80)
Aristotle, Practice of the philosopher's stone (ff127-138)
Flamel, Nicholas: Treasure of Philosophy (ff139-152)

Sloane Ms 3644: (17th c)
Sandivogius, Michael, Apographum Epistolarum (ff13v-60)
Benignus de Bruni, Conclusiones de lqapidis philosophorum.(ff68-77)

Sloane Ms 3645: (17th c)
Salomon, King of Israel, The Key of Knowledge (ff1-21)
Kelley, Edward, Discourse on the philosopher's stone (ff22-38)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, De quinta essentia (ff43-49)
Maier, Michael, Atalanta fugens, an alchemical treatise (ff50-101)

Sloane Ms 3648: (17th c)
Salomon, King of Israel, Clavicle of Salomon (ff1-46)
Paracelsus, Works on magic (ff64-75)

REEL 89

Sloane Ms 3661: (16th c)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Septem proportiones (ff45-51)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Super lapide majori (ff51-58)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Apertorium and other writings (ff103-128)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Ars magica and other writings (ff187-196)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Artis anima (f200)
Vadis, Aegidus de, Alchemical tract (ff208-214)
Joveninus, Frater, of Rome, and Baltasar, Judeus, Alchemical processes (ff214-257)
 
Sloane Ms 3667: (17th c)
Norton, Samuel, Tabulum Arboris Philosophicalis and other works (ff45-88)
Ripley, George, The marrow of alchemy (ff92-104)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, The cortacions and practice of (ff105-114)
Pearce the Black Monk, Upon the elixir (ff118-120)
Ripley, George, Concordance between Guido and Ramon Lull by Ripley (ff124-149)
Ripley, George, Sayings of Aristotle and Hermes Trismegistus by Ripley (ff149v-164v)
John de Rupecissa, On Mercury, by Ripley (ff167-187)

Sloane Ms 3684: (17th c)
Albertus Magnus Semita recta (ff1-36)
Albertus Magnus: Compositum de composotis (ff37-41)


REEL 90

Sloane Ms 3688: (17th c)
Kellum, Robert, Chemical and alchemical processes (ff1-37)
Ripley, George, Verses (f66v)
Arnald of Villanova, De magno opere (ff74v-78)
Bacon, Roger, Speculum secretorum alchimiae (ff87-91)
Rasis, On the Philosopher’s Stone (ff112-115)
 
Sloane Ms 3697: (17th c)
Morienus, De metallorum transmutatione (ff1-43)
Kellum, Robert, Chemical and alchemical collections (ff53-60)
 
Sloane Ms 3722: (18th c)
Nostradamus, Michael, Prophecies for 1713-1720 (ff157-159)

Sloane Ms 3747: (15th c)
Ripley, George, on Ramon Lull (ff3-14)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Accurtations (ff25-55)
Pearce the Black Monk, Upon the elixir (f106v)
Ripley, George, Mystery of alchemy in verse (ff110-115)


REEL 91

Sloane Ms 3778: (17th c)
Sandivogius, Michael, De Lapide Philosophorum (ff2-18)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, The 1st and 2nd alphabets (f19)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Potestas divitarum (ff20-37)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Accurtations (ff37v-40)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Experiments (ff41-51)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Practice of alchemy (ff52-67)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Transmutation of metals (ff68-76)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Theorica capp 62-91 (ff78-87)
Lull, Ramon, of Majorca, Clavicula (ff88-99)
Miriam the prophetess, Alchemical Praxis (ff100-108)

Sloane Ms 3822: (16th c)
Forman, Simon, Accounts of magical rings 1598 (ff3-34)
Myddleton, Thomas, Magical prayer (f35)

Sloane Ms 3846: (17th c)
Evans, J, Magical experiments and incantations (ff26-32)
Thebit Ben Kora, De tribus imaginibus magicis (ff86-93)
Bacon, William, Experimenta magica (ff93-98)
Windor, John a, Magical invocation (f111)
Salomon, King of Israel, Sepher Raziel: a magical treatise (ff129-157)
Adelardus, Bathoniensis, Magica quaedem (ff179-186)


Sloane Ms 3847: (15th - 17th c)
Salomon, King of Israel, Clavicle of Salomon (ff2-66)
Gower, John, Of stones and herbs pertaining to Confessio Amantis (f83)
Hermes Trismegistus, Liber Magicus (ff84-100)
Sahl Ibn Bashir, Liber imaginum (ff101-112)
Salomon, King of Israel, Sepher Raziel: a magical treatise (ff161-188)


REEL 92

Sloane Ms 3850: (17th c)
Agrippa (Henricus Cornelius), De occulta philosophia (ff2-13)
Bacon, Roger, Thesaurus Spirituum (ff117-129)
Hermes Trismegistus, De imaginibus magicis (ff182-187)

Sloane Ms 3853: (16th - 17th c)
Bacon, Roger, Thesaurus Spirituum (ff3-45)
Turco, Robertus, Thesaurus spirituum (ff3-45)

Sloane Ms 3854: (14th c)
Anon, Tracts and experiments in magic
Honorius filius Euclidis, Opera Salomonis seu Liber Juratus (ff112-139)
Salomon, King of Israel, Opus de arte magica (ff112-139)


REEL 93

Sloane Ms 3884: (17th c)
Bacon, Roger, Necromantia (ff44-46)

Sloane Ms 3943: (18th c)
Anon, Tracts on witchcraft, 1712 (ff17-148)

Add Ms 10302: (15th c)
Thomas Norton, The ordinal of alchemy (ff1-67)

Lansdowne 703: (16th c)
Thomas Charnock, A booke of philosophie (holograph)



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