TRANSMUTATIVE ART

JOHN XXII (JACQUES DUÈZE)

Born in 1244 in Cahors, died in 1334 in Avignon.

Coming from a wealthy bourgeois family from Cahors, he became pope in 1316, under the name John XXII.


Now begins the book of alchemy that Pope John had opened in Avignon, from which work he would have 200 roollez each weighing a quintal.

Take very strong vinegar, four pounds of white lime two pounds, and mix them together, and leave them for four days, and on the fifth day put these things in a glass still, and distilled, and keep the water well: then take salt, and urine with inde alexamdrin. 1 lib. of armoniac salt. 6.lib half pound of prepared common salt and half of vinegar: the above distilled 3. lib.

First heat the vinegar, and then put the salts in it: and when the salts are: melted, put everything together in an alembic, and distilled, and what remains at the bottom mixed, and soaked with the water itself which is distilled, and put it back in an alembic, and distill it once: and so do so that all the water is ysu, and when it is consumed, you will find at the bottom of the distillery a frozen mass, which will be like ice, or like crystal,

This is the strong water for this work:
Take of Roman vitriol, two pounds, of nitrate salt one pound, of vermilion two pounds æs ustum one pound, all these things be ground together, and be put together in a still to distil: the first water which will come out of it will be white, and nothing will be worth it: but if it keeps it: but the second, and the third are good, and perfect, and keep them for this work in a glass vial.

To make the Sun good and fine

Take æs ustum, of sulfur of vitriol, of each two pounds, and mold well each by itself, and then mix them together, and then put them in a1embbic, and close all the joints well, so that no steam escapes. , then put the ashes in a furnace, and distil them over a dry fire, keep all the water in a glass phial: and then take two dragmes of fine gold, and four dragmes of quick silver, and amalgam them together , as the Goldsmiths do, and then when this is amalgamated, the moles well with the water on top said for three days thereafter, then if put them on a low fire, and cook for twelve hours when will be enough, if the moles again with water above said: then recook it as before, and thus do it up to eighteen times, always softening and soaking, and then dry until it is vermillion in color,then take some of this matter from the poiseur, and put a weight on eighteen of molten lead, which is well purged and prepared, and it will be the end of all proof

The lead is prepared and purged in this way, and on purged lead we must throw the medicine on it dictates: Take the saunon, and make well-kept sheets, then take coarse common salt, and grind it well and then take a vessel of earth, and make a bed of this salt, and put the strips on top, and thus make a bed of one and the other as long as the pot is completely full: cover the pot and stop it well at the joints: but you must leave a small vent on it, through which the smoke will come out, and you will put this pot on a good fire without blowing, and leave it for six hours, then remove from the fire, and you will find the laminated and white laminas, then take the laminated one and the put in hot and strong lye, and the salt will go down with the lye, and the lamina will remain at the bottom very clear and pure:then take the rolled ones and soften them on a marble stone well washed two or three times, always throwing clear water on it if it washes away the rubbish, and when you see that the water will come out clear, adoint is the cleaned thing , and then take this powder, and grind it again on the said stone, and grind it very well with alum water, and common salt water, then dry it over the fire, and then grind it on the stone, and drink as before with water of alum and salt: then dry them, and if do so much, that it becomes white lime, and then grind with tartarine water, and then dry them: and then take a small pot of earth and put this lime in, and nail some good clay and well matched, on top only make a small slit, which you will make, so that the material can come out when it is melted,and take another pot on which to put the drill, in which the material will be, and make a good fire all around, as long as the material is melted, take it and melt it another time, and throw it into anything, or there will be have a little sheep tallow, and you will find your material completely white, and well cleaned of all filth, and on this metal thus purged must we throw the medicine in the manner which is said above.

This is the first chapter to do freezing of Mercury. Take a pound of live sulfur, and grind it as loosely as you can, and then cook it for a whole day in eight pounds of lye, make two parts of granulated ashes, and the other part of quick lime, and so as the lye will decrease when boiling, put boiling common water in it, and when it has boiled all day, pour it through a thick bag into a very clean vessel of felt or earth, and when this is done, put on top four pints of good vinegar and four pints of cold water, and if it becomes white: then let it stand, while it is lukewarm: then pour off the water very courteously, and the sulfur will remain at the bottom of the vessel white as snow , and it keeps as long as I tell you.

The second chapter of this same: Take marcasite: it is a mine of Saturn at your will and put it in a sublimatory, and the sublime, so that all the sulfur, which is in it is well sublimated, and it will show white like snow, and that well stored up, and keep as long as I tell you.

The third chapter: Take moonshine, and put them in an earthen vessel as I said above lead with common salt: and put this to calcine in a reverberation furnace a day and a night, and after open the vessel, and you will find the laminas formed spoiled: if take the devastation with new salt, and put in the oven as before: and if do so that all the laminas are spoiled, and keep the salt well with the devastation: then take this salt & devastation, and put in common water, and boil it for an hour, and the salt will dissolve, and the moon will look at the bottom of the dish calcined like quicklime, and if subtly throw the water, and the moon calcined keep, and gather and dry in the sun, or in the oven of bread, and keep as long as I tell you.

The fourth chapter: Take a pound of quicksilver, a pound of vitriol and three ounces of common salt, and mix everything together, and incorporate well with the quicksilver: then sublimate it, and do so up to three times, and it will become white as snow, and if you keep it well, as long as I tell you.

The fifth chapter: Take a pound of vitriol, and a pound of nitre salt, and grind them well, and mix them together, and put in an alembic, and pour the joints well, and distil it over a good fire, as long as the the still will turn red, take off the fire, and keep some water in a very white glass bulb, and make sure you have a good quantity of this water according to whether you want to make the work, and keep this water as long as I tell you.

This is the composition of all the white accomplished, you do it like this:

Take only the white quick sulfur from the first chapter, and three ounces of sulfur from the marcasite from the second chapter, and one ounce of moon lime from the third chapter, all these things you will grind together on a marble stone, as much loosening as you can, and soak with half a pound of water from the second chapter, then put two pounds of that same water, and put in a double still on the stove, and make distill from belly to belly, that is to say, what comes out flows back into it, as long as all the water is consumed, in that same one and when this is done, take all the material, and weigh it, and if there are six ounces, grind well and loosen, when they are well ground, put them in a glass ampoule,and with a pound of strong sour wine from the fifth chapter and nail the bulb well, so that no steam comes out, and put it in horse manure for 21 days and then remove the bulb, and put it on a stove of hot ashes, and give it a little fire, as long as all the water is broken down in that same one: and there will remain a stone for us, which you will grind on a marble as finely as you can: and you will have perfect medicine put a little on twenty five of bright Mercury, and it will become fine moon upon all examinations and proofs.that you will grind on a marble as fine as you can: and you will have perfect medicine put a little on twenty five of live Mercury, and it will become a fine moon with all examinations and proofs.that you will grind on a marble as fine as you can:

and you will have perfect medicine put a little on twenty five of live Mercury, and it will become a fine moon with all examinations and proofs.

In Galbania, part of Egypt, a man came to the house of a goldsmith carrying two silver cups who begged to have them melted for him, and when they were melted he took some green powder that he had brought, and threw it on the silver melted, and therefore the powder made a great smoke in the fire, and thus he found his silver in pure gold, and therefore the Goldsmith begged this man that he would teach him how to make the aforesaid powder, and the manner.

To make said powder.

Take of the said powder of gold one part, and of crocum ferri, and of æs ustum one part, and of salt armoniac as much as three, dissolve the salt armoniac, and soak with it these three things, and after put them in a crucible, and on slow fire until everything is incorporated together, and if it could be done by the heat of the sun or only on hot ashes when everything is thus done coglutine and freeze made of the powder of which you will keep for your use.

Gold is thus pulverized: Take a vessel that is wide at the bottom, and narrow at the mouth, and inside it contains lead, and on the mouth put a lamina, or a denier of fine gold, so that it can receive the smoke of lead, and take the lamina above said by turning it and turning over the said smoke that a little later you will put your gold ready to be pulverized, and make powder.

æs ustum is thus pulverized, and pulverizes it, washes it with simple water, or salt water, so many times that it becomes dry: and then makes it into powder.

To make cinnabar.

Take two parts of pure copper, and one part of sulfur, and mix it with water, and put them in a vessel with a long neck, and lute clay the thickness of your finger and dry it: then put on it a tripod, and smother the vessel, and make a slow fire for half an hour, and then strengthen the fire, and heat it up for a day by a third, as long as you see red smoke coming out, then let your vessel cool, and break it and you will find good cinnabar.

Multiplication of gold.

Venus franc in strips, and cement them with cement, and put them in a crucible covered with a tile, and put it on the fire in the corner of the chimney and make a small light fire by six o'clock, covering your vessel with coal, and then let your fire die and remove your crucible and blow off the cement powder, which only leaves your laminas in it, and then take your laminas one after the other, and ratify them, and scrape them, so that you get the 'filth, and keep it apart, and wash them in two or three waters to remove the filth, and then dry them before the fire, and after they are dry, put them with a gentle wind, and Saturn at your discretion, and put everything in a crucible pierced at the bottom of the bottom, and on top of it another which is not pierced, which are cemented one inside the other,and put your crucible in the coal fire for the space of three hours, and your crucible must be covered with a small tile, and your Venus will pass through the bottom of the pierced crucible, and will fall into the other so keep that of Venus, and put a part of that Venus, and as much fine moon, and as much fine sol of ducats, and put it all to melt in a crucible and put in said crucible a little bourras otherwise called rock, and melt it three times , and throw it in man's urine, and will make good increase and good soil, it will be a little hard: but you must throw a little sublimated in it and will be good.and as much fine ground of ducats, and put everything to melt in a crucible and put in the said crucible a little bouras otherwise called rock, and will melt it three times, and throw it into man's urine, and will make a good increase and good ground, it will be a little hard: but you have to throw a little sublimated in and it will be good.and as much fine ground of ducats, and put everything to melt in a crucible and put in the said crucible a little bouras otherwise called rock, and will melt it three times, and throw it into man's urine, and will make a good increase and good ground, it will be a little hard: but you have to throw a little sublimated in and it will be good.

White of Saturn.

Take three ounces of white lead, an ounce of prepared salt, half an ounce of cleaned salt, an ounce of uncalcined white wine gravel and put everything into powder, and mix everything together: then put everything in a crucible covered with 'a tile pierced in the middle, and put your crucible on the fire, and put lit coal all around the said crucible, and only repeat the coal once, and let your fire die, then you will find your material at the bottom of the said crucible crucible which will melt again in a crucible, and you will put as much of one as of the other, and you will have fine moon.
White Venus.

Take four ounces of white lead, an ounce of uncalcined wine gravel, five ounces of Venus filings, half an ounce of omnia bene, and put everything together, and put it in a crucible, and make a fire of coal all around it. space of three hours, and then let your fire die, and you will find your material at the bottom of the said crucible, and then melt your said material again with as much weight of fine moon as of the other, and for certain you will find fine moon.

To multiply the soil.

Take a fine ducat with twice its weight of fine rosette copper, and file it well loosened, and with this put the weight of a ducat of fine moon: and then melt everything together in a crucible, and when all is well melted, throw into the crucible half an ounce of Roman vitriol, with a little armoniac salt, and then take a little live sulfur, and put them into powder and throw it twice, or three times into your crucible and you will have fine sun .

Moon multiplication.

Take tin for a pound, with a pound of quicksilver, and mix everything together in a crucible, then take three ounces of iron filings and an ounce of coarse salt, and two ounces of well powdered quick sulfur and put into the crucible and leave everything together for twenty-eight hours on the fire, and let the fire always be of one size, and you will make a good moon.

Fac oleum of quacunque revolueris, of sanguine humano, credo plus valere, habito oleo pone in siolam vitream super fino equino per tres hebdomadas, et descendet in vase aqua puluis, et oleum supernatabit: tunc extrahe oleun, et pone in alembico, et distilla, et pone in fimo sicut prius: et hoc facies toties, donec oleum non possit sublimari, et positum in igne non comburatur, hoc oleum omnia corpora dura mollificat, et omnia mala durificat, et spiritus fixus facit intrare: quare est Elixir optimum, pulvis de stercore humano desccatus ad solem et postmodum lavatus in aqua, et quod non retrosum est remanens in fundo vasis est Elixir bonum tingens Saturnum in solem.

Make an oil of whatever you use, of human blood, I believe it is more powerful, put the oil in a glass jar over a fine horse for three weeks, and it will go down in a vessel with water and the powder will float on the oil: then extract the oil, and put it in a still, and distill it. and put it in the dung as before: and do this often, until the oil cannot be sublimated, and when placed in the fire is not burnt, this oil softens all hard bodies, and hardens all evils, and causes a fixed spirit to enter: therefore is the best Elixir, dust of with human excrement exposed to the sun and afterwards washed in water, and what is not left behind remaining at the bottom of the vessel is the good elixir dipping Saturn into the sun.

Si Saturnus fundatur super vitreum fusum durus erit, et sustinebit ignem per omnia Multiplicato Mercuri, accipe calamun, et imple ex mercurio, et sit pastelum de sulfide, et cape, et pone eum circumquenque calamun, postea pone in poto longo cum vitriollo, ita quod sit in medio, et cooperiatur totus, deinde ponatur in furno, et bene calefacias: sed caue ne sublimetur et infrigidetur, et inuenies Mercurium rubificatum.

If Saturn is founded on molten glass, it will be hard, and will withstand fire through all things. let it be in the middle, and let it be completely covered, then put it in the oven, and heat it well: but take care that it does not rise and cool, and you will find the mercury reddened.

Dealbario aeris: combure herbam la peonie, cum floribus, et radice, et amaruslam: similiter separatim, quae dicit gallice acalie: et commisce cineres equaliter et impasta cum aqua pura tartari, dein de fac de illa pasta stratum in cuccurbitam et album exsoliis cupri, et sic sacias gradatim donec impleatur deinde superpone alembicum, et distilla: et post redde ei aquam quae distillauerit ter aut quater: fundetur illud cuprum cum cui libet, quos inuenies in cucurbitam, et erit album ut luna si vero non sit album, fundas bis, est post fusionem misce cum eo quartam aut quintam lunae partem verae, et erit optimum.

In a brass pan: burn the herb la peony, with flowers, and root, and bittersweet: likewise separately, which is said in French to be acaly: and mix the ashes equally and knead with pure water of tartar, then make a layer of that paste on the cucurbita and white exsoles of copper. and fill it in this way by degrees until it is full; then put the still on top of it, and pour it out; it is after the fusion, mix with it the fourth or fifth part of the true moon, and it will be the best.

Aqua optima: accipe calcem vivam, et sal alkali, et pone cum oleo et moe bene, et pone in alembico, et distilla, et de ista aqua imbibe arcenicum album, vel sulfur album, vel argentum vivum tantum, ut ponas super laminam aetis, and sundatur, pones super aes susum de ipso, et erit luna.

The best water: take quicklime, and salt of alkali, and put it well with oil and moe, and put it in a still, and distill it, and from that water imbibe white arsenic, or white sulphur, or quicksilver, so that you put it on a bronze plate. and sundatur, you will place it on top of the brass, and it will be the moon.

Oleum incombustibile: Sume sal armoniacum, et calcem vivam, et pone super oleum: et dimitte per 3 dies, et distillaillud, et in distillatio ne pone quartam parcem vitri, et calcis, et distilla, et imbibe cum eo quoduis donec curat quia dicunt philosophi , quod si puluerem pluries cum eo solueris, statim resurget et habebit ingressum: et alij dixerum, quod si oleum cum calce distillatum suerit, non comburetur si decies cum ea distillaueris, fiet venenum et destroyet omnia.

Unburnt oil: Take salt of ammonia, and quicklime, and put it on the oil: and leave it for 3 days, and distill it; , that if you dissolve the powder several times with it, it will immediately rise and have an entrance: and I would say to another, that if oil distilled with lime is applied to it, it will not burn, if you distill it ten times, it will become poison and destroy everything.

Calcinatio stanni, vel sublimatio siue sublimatur, sparge super ipsum acetum uim distillatam, donec limature dissolvatur: quia fit pulius subtilissimus, qui tangi non potest: interest ipsum de quocum que spiritu volueris, post dissoluatur cum eo tali modo fiet argento.

The calcination of tin, or sublimation, or sublimation, sprinkle over it vinegar distilled from it, until the filing is dissolved: for it becomes a very fine polish, which cannot be touched: the difference is the very thing about which spirit you choose, after it is dissolved with it in such a way, it will become silver.

Note, quod alquemiae, aut per decotionem solis in vitreum vertitur dulcififimum terrae limaturam argenti cum aquq salis distillaram, et assa donec siccetur be, et erit puluis.

Note that in alchemy, or by the decoction of the sun, the sweetest earth is turned into glass by distilling silver filings with water and salt, and roasting it until it is dry, and it becomes powdery.

Ad faciendum argentum vivium.
To make quick silver.

Accipe plumbum, et funde in pattela: post separa partes eius cum sale puluerisato dealbato continue eum spatula agitando, cum vero calcinatum fuerit quam super erit separabis, ab eo sal cum aqua calida, post pone ipsum cum calce marmorisim ampulla vitrea bene clausa, et ipsam pone in fimo equino calido per mensem remouendo fimum de septem dies: et vertitur argentum vium, et in substanciam veram eius puram, et naturam.

Take the lead and pour it into a pan: after separating its parts with powdered salt, keep stirring it with a spatula. put it in the dung of a hot horse for a month, removing the dung for seven days: and the silver of the road is turned, and into its true, pure substance, and nature.

Resolutio plumbi: Consume plumbum super cotem, et tere cum quarta parte sui salis armoniaci, et imbibe terendo cum ea aqua, siue cum aqua simplica et sepeli fimo remouendo fimum de quinto in quintum diem, et liquefit: sic etiam resoluetur aurum, stannum argentum vivum ligatum, siue sit citrium, siue sit album siue rubeum, et non quod aurum eum aqua dragantis, et pendeat, de super cote nimia de albatio siue auripigmentum, argentum vivum sal aequaliter partes tres, que postquam cum aceto mixa fuerint et pastata ad solem per nouem dies siccari permitte, et nunquam cum tribus spumae marinae, necnon aluum aridem partem adiunctis per 3 horas suscipiat lenem ignem assa habet enim in optimum congelabuntur guluerem, cuius pars una supra partem septem auri calci, vel stani fusi projecta argentum procreat.

Dissolution of lead: Consume lead on a scale, and rub it with a quarter of its ammonium salt, and imbibe it by rubbing it with water, or with plain water and burial dung, removing the dung from the fifth to the fifth day, and it will melt: in this way gold will also be dissolved, living tin and silver bound, whether it be citron, whether it be white or red, and not that it be gold, by dredging it with water, and hanging from the crust too much of whiteness or gold-pigment, three equal parts of quicksilver salt, which after they have been mixed with vinegar and pasted in the sun for allow it to dry for nine days, and never with three parts of sea-foam, as well as a part of dry alder, take it for 3 hours, roast it in a gentle fire, for it will be frozen into the best collar, of which one part above seven parts of gold, of lime, or cast tin, produces silver.

De aqua plumbi, vel argenti vivi sumatur, limatura plumbi, et mergatur et medietas Mercuri, et amborum pondus salis communis terrae omnia subtiliter in paropside cum aqua dulci donec aqua saporem salis deperdat, et remaneat plumbum et mercuri. Mercurius illarum ponatur in fiolam vitream et coquatur cum aqua sulfuris: pone in cucurbita lento igne distilletur Mercurius fine mota, substine tamen donec finiat distillare, post sume quod distillatum est, et haec est aqua Mercuri: quod auem in fundo remaner, est aqua plumbi.

Of the water of lead, or of quicksilver, a filing of lead is taken, and half of the mercury is immersed, and both the weight of the common salt of the earth, all fine in paropside with fresh water until the water loses the taste of the salt, and the lead and mercury remain. The mercury of these is placed in a glass vial and boiled with sulphurous water: put it in a gourd over a slow fire and the mercury is distilled with the end stirred, but stand still until it has finished dripping, after that take what has been distilled, and this is the water of Mercury: that which remains at the bottom is the water of lead.

Aqua sulfuris, hoc modo: si ponatur sulfur tritum in calce viva extincta in aceto sublimato: ita quam acetum superemineat in vase tribus digitis, et sit vas bene sigillatum, et sepeliatur in fimo tribus diebus, extractum vero sublimetur in alembico, quod distillat est aqua sulfuris: iterum appone acetum illud, et fac similiter, et tandiu facias illud, quousque redeat acetum in distillatione album mirabile: acetum vero rubeum, quod dedit alembico in unaquaque distillatione aggrega etenim ipsum aqua sulphuris.

Sulfur water, in this way: if crushed sulfur is placed in quicklime quenched in brandy vinegar: so that the vinegar rises three inches above the vessel, and the vessel be well sealed, and buried in dung for three days; of sulphur: add that vinegar again, and do the same, and do it for a long time, until the vinegar returns in the distillation a wonderful white color: the vinegar, in fact, red, which it gave to the alembic in each distillation, is indeed the very water of sulphur.

Deauratio, quod Mercurius sit currens citrinus ut aurum: Sume cucurbitam vitream lutatam, et pone in ea quantum uis argenti vivi, et coletur aqua porrorum, et superponatur eidem Mercurio de aqua ut superexcedat enim tribus digitis, stringe iuncturas, et ascende lentum ignem, et quando aqua minuetur, tota: haec facies usque ad meridiem: prius tatem aes viride teratur et aceto et aqua consumptis pone de eo ut cooperiatur quod intus est, et bulliatur parumper: sine infrigidari, et extrahe, colando illud et immersetur colore aureo Mercurius concurrens.

The gilding, that Mercury is a running lemon like gold: Take a gourd of glass that has been muddied, and put in it as much as you want of quicksilver, and the water of leeks is cultivated, and it is placed on top of the same Mercury of the water, so that it exceeds three inches. when the water is reduced, the whole: do this until noon: first, after having consumed the copper and the vinegar and the water, put it over it so that what is inside is covered and it boils for a while: without cooling it, and take it out, straining it, and immerse it in the golden color of the concurring Mercury.

Ligatio argenti vivi: Sume de Mercurio dragmas viginti, de sulfide dragmam unan quod ponatur in fiolam opilatam luto, quam ponas super ignem die notedque unat et egredietur durus lapis.

Binding of quicksilver: Take twenty drachms of mercury, one drachm of sulphide, which are placed in a vial filled with clay, which you place over the fire for a day, and when they unite, a hard stone will come out.

Sal armoniacum dissoluitur cum testis ouorum, vel cum alia calce non passa aqua: aliter non potest dissolui, et sic disolutum confictur cum oleo de vitellis ouorum, et tinges ex eo quod volueris.

Harmonic salt is dissolved with a test of eggs, or with water not seasoned with another lime: it cannot be dissolved otherwise, and thus dissolved it is prepared with oil from the yolks of eggs, and you make a dye from it as you wish.

Ad aurum: Combure aes sicut scis cum sulphure, et puluerisa, et pone cum luna in una quantitate, tunc dissoluatur ad ignem, et redigetur in lunam, et imbile illiam limaturam ex oleo ouorum, vel aqua ferri, vel aeri, vel atramenti pluries desiccando et imbibendo super marnor donec calx illa vel, limatura bene rubificetur, et de hoc pone in una quantitae vel plus cum sole ad ignem, et fiet sol optimus.

For gold: Burn the copper as you know with sulphur, and powder it, and put it together with the moon in one quantity, then let it be dissolved in the fire, and be reduced to the moon, and by drying it several times with the oil of eggs, or with water of iron, or of air, or of ink and by imbibing over it, I leave it until that lime or the filing is well reddened, and put of this in one quantity or more with the sun to the fire, and it will become the best sun.

De aqua salis armoniaci / Sal armoniacum fundatur cum calce ouorum, vel calce viva aequali pondere: pone de ale armoniaco, tamen remanent in calce duae partes salis armoniaci, quiq bibit ipsum: sed cum cognoueris aquam illam esse suam conficias cum vitellis ouorum, et confectum pone in cucurbia, and distilla igne lento, and habebis oleum citriun and aquam albam.

Of the water of ammoniac salt / The ammoniac salt is founded with the lime of eggs, or of quick lime of an equal weight: put of the ale of ammoniac, yet two parts of the ammoniac salt remain in the lime, which he drinks himself: but when you know that the water is his own, make it with the yolks of the eggs, and it is finished put it in a pumpkin, and let it be distilled over a slow fire, and you will have lemon oil and white water.

Ground  gold.
Luna  silver.
Mars  iron.
Mercurius  quicksilver.
Jupiter  tin.
Venus  copper.
Saturnus  lead.

To do Sol.

Take live sulfur, seven pounds of iron filings, seven pounds, incorporate everything well together, all in powder, and put it all in an iron pot, or an iron spoon on the fire little by little, heat it up, always stirring until it is all dries, and the fire sets in: so make a strong fire that burns well then take sour wine distilled three or four times, and take the powdered material and put it in a glass distiller with its cover, and put underneath said matter and your sour wine distilled as long as it is all watered, and there are two fingers on said matter, and distill three or four times, watering, and mutating the vessel in each distillation: then take vitriol Roman one pound, verdigris one pound, and armoniac salt one pound, and matter two pounds,then take all the things above said and spray them well together on the marble with male child's urine, and put to dry in the sun, and this imbibition is desiccating, and it must be done three times: then take the cripaile moon , or carpaille as much as you want, and make it by raw laminates, and put it in cement over a slow fire with cement, that is to say old mallon, and common salt prepared ana, and soak the said cement in strong sour wine of hard paste, and cemented, and lutes read of wisdom, and leaves it on the fire four hours, and do it three times: then take of this cemented moon seven ounces, of sol seven, and melt everything together: laminate, and make the measuring strips of the crucible, and cement it with the above-mentioned cement in a slow fire three times over the space of an hour, as long as it is well luted,read sapience: and make it cool by him, and put everything in body: and you will have ground at 22 carats: and then if you want to refine it to be all good iudice pass it through strong water as you know and will have fine gold.

To make good silver.

Take a pound of calcined tartar and boil it in three pounds of common water until it dries up almost half: then distill through the felt, and in this water put two ounces of Bourras, and keep it dry: then take a pound of salt, and a pound of quicklime of which you make each one separately without leaving anything as you did tartar, putting in each two ounces of flour: then take two ounces of realgal arsenic, two ounces of orpiment , four ounces and pulverize everything well together: then leave it in half and put a part in the water of quicklime, and let everything dissolve and repel in the said waters the space of four hours: then have four ounces of filings from Mars new filed and half an ounce of fine moonshine, which you dissolve each separately in their double of common strong water:and when everything is dissolved put the two waters together mixing very well with each other, then separate your water, and keep your feces: then take your three waters above said with everything that is among, and put them in a vessel of strong earth like Beuvois, and put in your said feces of Mars, and of the moon incorporating and mixing together, and make it rest in said pot well covered on a natural day, then evaporate them over a low heat, moving often, as long as 'there is no more mood, and put it in powder of which throw five or six ounces of fine copper melted and prepared with breast of glass, and you will have good white for washing dishes, and if you put half of money it will be good money and sweet to do everything.after separate your water, and keep your feces: then take your three waters above said with all that is among, and put them in a vessel of strong earth like beuvois, and put in your said feces of Mars, and of the moon incorporating and mixing together, and let it rest in the said pot well covered on a natural day, then evaporate them over a low heat, stirring often, until there is no more temper, and put it into powder from which you will throw five or six ounce of fine copper melted and prepared with breast of glass, and you will have good white for making dishes, and if you put half the silver it will be good silver and soft for doing everything.after separate your water, and keep your feces: then take your three waters above said with all that is among, and put them in a vessel of strong earth like beuvois, and put in your said feces of Mars, and of the moon incorporating and mixing together, and let it rest in the said pot well covered on a natural day, then evaporate them over a low heat, stirring often, until there is no more temper, and put it into powder from which you will throw five or six ounce of fine copper melted and prepared with breast of glass, and you will have good white for making dishes, and if you put half the silver it will be good silver and soft for doing everything.and moon incorporating and mixing together, and let it rest in said pot well covered on a natural day, then evaporate them over a low heat, stirring often, as long as there is no longer any mood, and put it into powder of which you throw in five or six ounces of fine copper melted and prepared with glass, and you will have good white for washing dishes, and if you put half the silver it will be good silver and soft for doing everything.and moon incorporating and mixing together, and let it rest in said pot well covered on a natural day, then evaporate them over a low heat, stirring often, as long as there is no longer any mood, and put it into powder of which you throw in five or six ounces of fine copper melted and prepared with glass, and you will have good white for washing dishes, and if you put half the silver it will be good silver and soft for doing everything.

Increase in 

Take Roman vitriol, and ana verdigris. a pound, and sublimate with as much soil: then reduce the faeces into body with soft soap, and bourras: this done, take an ounce of the said body, and an ounce of luna of scrap, and two ounces of fine soil and melt together , and will be as you saw in the 18 carat chapter, probatum.

Note when you have thrown it into an ingot it will be fragile, remelt it in a new crucible: then when it is very melted you will throw in as large a glass breast and heat well and throw in four or five times: then throw in ingots and net salt quite soft if remelt it, and do as above said, and redo thus as long as it is soft: approved is.

To make fine copper become moon.

Take four pounds of white wine gravel and calcine it in a furnace as long as it remains in salt, and put two times of water in it: dissolve over a low heat, and then remove the said water, and put it in another pot there if it will dissolve everything slowly until everything is dry and keep it aside. Item be taken of soda three pounds, of lime two pounds of saltpeter one pound, and make a lye in an earthen pot and pass it ten, or twelve times: then take the said lye which will be made of three parts of water, and it becomes up to a pot. It is good to have the stonecrop of sublimated realgal of arsenic, armoniac ana salt, an ounce and a small of bouras, and calcine everything in said lye by putting in the salt, and the gravel, which has been calcined,

Frozen Mercury fixation without body odor.

Take nitre salt or saltpeter: common salt, ana glass breast. two ounces dissolve in hot water and boil over the fire, until the water is evaporated, and it is in an earthen pot: and keep the said salt. Item take from it salt six ounces waters on fire in without mastic, dragon's blood colofony myrrh pitch raisins in fourbe bouras, gum arabic, gum dragant, gum armoniac, alum salt of ana feather. seven ounces will make of strong water steteus and saltpetre, and of calcined rock alum ana. 4 ounces of alum oil, or cheneure oil one ounce, and of this make a paste, and this paste cement your material one on the other as long as all the material is there, and make a ball of it, which you put it in a crucible, and put it underneath, and on top with powdered glass of stone, and lite your crucible well so that it does not fail,

Purification of arsenic.

Take arsenic, and make lexive of distilled urine, and common ashes taught in the chapter of orpiment: and then cooked into lexive, the said arsenic very strong.

To make fine ruby.
Take burnt lead. 3. Ounces
Fine crystal 1. Ounce
Saltpeter 2. Dragmas
Dragon's blood 2. Dragmas
Red coral 1. Dragma

To melt crystal.

Take one ounce of graphite and two ounces of crystal: and then grind all together, and put in a crucible, and it will melt.
Soil composition.

Take æs ustum, crocum ferri ana. an ounce and they are prepared: then take tutie cinnabar ana. 1 ounce, purified armoniac salt six ounces is all put into powder: then make them sublimate all together for the space of six hours at each sublimation: at the first make a small fire for two hours so that you can hold your finger in the ashes at the bottom or is your sublimatory: then strengthen your fire by two more hours, so that you cannot endure your finger in it: then by two others make the fire so strong, that you can do without melting: then let your vessel cool while still cold, and take everything that is sublimated above, with the feces which are at the bottom, and regrind everything together, and so you must sublimate, and regrind at each, as said is by six hours sublimate by seven times,
Take ten ounces of fine oil and melt it in a crucible: and when it is well melted, throw seven ounces on top of your material, and hastily cover your crucible with a red, well-lit coal and make it so large and wide that 'it covers the cover of the said crucible, then put about other well-lit coals, and blow beautifully through the space of three times Pater noster, and Ave Maria, then throw it into ingots and will be examined 23 carat gold.

To make æs ustum.

Take fine copper, and put it in small loose strips, and live sulfur put into powder: then super stratum, and that the crucible is not full, but that the surplus is filled with glass powder: and is well covered and well luteed: and then put on the fire for the space of two hours, and then let it cool: then remove the cover, and put it to melt, and when it is melted and everything has cooled break your crucible and you will find at the bottom your æs ustum: then put it to red in a new crucible, and dilute it with walnut oil or two ounces of vinegar: then redden, and dilute it seven times, and your æs ustum will be perfect.

To make crocum ferri.

Take half a pound of steel filings, and then put in filings, and put it in a crucible to blush: then dilute into a quart of vinegar, and leave it for a quarter of an hour: then have the said vinegar in another vessel as long as none remain: then take your said filings, and put them in said red crucible as before said vinegar: thus done five times, and on the fifth time leave your said filings in said vinegar for the space of 15 days, and each day either mix three times a day, and at the end of the fifteen days, take the cream that you find above, and after purifying the said vinegar out over a very low heat, evaporate and freeze your said cream; and vinegar together in one vessel; as long as it is in powder form, and keep the said filings well.
To prepare said crocus ferri.

Take an ounce of the said crocus ferri, and two ounces of live sulfur, and put it in a crucible lute as above said, and have a hole in the lid: then put it in the fire in rota for the space of 12 hours, then put it by four hours in the reverberation oven at high heat: and the lid is out, and you will find your crocus ferri, in ruddy color and impalpable.

Preparing tutie.

Take the said tutie and put it in a crucible to redden five times, and dilute it five times in vinegar.

Note that when said æs ustum and said tutie stand out like what goes on top, the vinegar is worth nothing.

Preparation of æs ustum.

If you do everything like that of tutie, or otherwise you can prepare it like this: Take men's urine, and a handful of salt, and skim the said urine, until it no longer foams: then melt your æs ustum, and throw it in four or five times, or as many times as it has a good enough color and in this way the said æs ustum softens strongly and is suitable with the mixed moon.
Preparation of armoniac salt.

Take the said salt, and put it into powder: then put it in a quart of boiling water to dissolve and distill through the felt: then evaporate and freeze over a very low heat until it is frozen.

Preparation of vitriol.

Dissolve it in urine, then evaporate it dry over a slow fire: then put it over a slow fire between two crucibles, and it will redden, or put it in a large crucible over a low heat and it will calcine.

Preparation of ice alum.

Either reddened in a crucible five times and diluted in vinegar and linseed oil.

Alexandria tutie preparation.

Arsenic is reddened, and extinguished in vinegar five times.

Preparation of live sulfur.

Put the boil in vinegar, as long as there no longer appears any foam on top of the said vinegar, and if there is any, remove it with the back of a spoon: then done, remove the said vinegar, and freeze very strong: then put to sublimate with alum of ice together dissolved in urine and freeze dry.
Purging of Mercury.

Wash the Mercury in strong vinegar three or four times, so that none appears there: then pass it through a double cloth, and in two doubles, thus it will be purged: none when they have passed it through the cloth, put it soak it in urine for two hours, and then soak it in vinegar for another two hours: and the vinegar will be purged.

To make Mercury's moon.

Take a mark of Mercury, it is half a pound, and put it in a crucible on the fire, and leave it until it boils, and then put with it an ounce of good moon leaf by leaf: then put your clean crucible on the fire, and stir until everything is soaked, and mix: and then put the material again on the fire, and put four drams of nitre salt: then boil for an hour, or more: and when you see it harden, then everything will be removed from the fire, and you will have a good moon.

To make  of Mercury.

Take a raw and purged mark of Mercury as is said before: and put it in a crucible on the fire, and leave it as long as you see it boiling, and then take it out of the fire, and put in it an ounce of leaf by leaf , and when you have passed everything in, put everything back on the fire, and mix with this mixture the tenth part of nitre salt (half an ounce) and another ounce of alkali salt, and another ounce of armoniac salt, and a a little wind and remove from the fire and put in a glass flask very well liqueured all around, and close the mouth of the flask well, and put on the fire and leave it for three days and three nights, and see that you will find inside and I tell you that it is Red Elixir, of which one ounce converts 50 of moon into very pure sun: in this way:melt white compost ten ounces of good moonshine and this melted one pass in an ounce of this powder, and so on the fire for an hour.

To have good .

Take bunches and figs in total an ounce, and clean it well of the grains: and then pass them through cheesecloth, and that there is as much of one as of the other: then take aloe, calamine, and coal of sauce of both in total an ounce: then take tutie, as above, and mix with well-purged honey, and make a fairly soft paste: then take fine copper and cement the said paste in small sheets and put them in a crucible until it is full, and then cover it with another crucible, and melt over a slow fire, and have good sunshine.

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