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[i]Liber mineralium[/i]. Books I and II only and one page of Book III. (There are five Books comprising the published original). [/p]

[p]Written in a small neat humanistic hand, 28 lines to a page.[/p]

[p]Fol. 1 (Beginning of Book I) BEATI ALBERTI MAGNI GERMANICI PHILOSOPHI /CELEBERRIMI MINERALIVM LIBER INCIPIT ET/PRIMO DE LAPIDIBVS LIBER PRIMVS FOELICITER [D]E COMMIXTIONE et coagulatione similiter autem et conge/latione et liquefactione ... to fol. 39 (End of Book II) ... sed quedam portio/nes de libro excepte deuenerunt.[/p]
[p]Fol. 39v (Beginning of Book III) TEMPVS autem est nunc [consequenter] de metallorum naturis inquirere post la/pidum inuestigationem... line 28 ... in communi querentes quicumque de natura metallorum uidebuntur esse inquirenda Libro complebimus. Only one page of text from book three is in this manuscript.[/p]

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