The alchemical testament of John Gybbys of Exeter, temp. Elizabeth, now first edited from MS. Ashmole 1423, at Oxford / by James O'Halliwell.
- Gybbys, John.
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The alchemical testament of John Gybbys of Exeter, temp. Elizabeth, now first edited from MS. Ashmole 1423, at Oxford / by James O'Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![good thyknesse in the bothome off thi metell, and thou must hold the pease of wood styll in the metell to itt be stondyng, and sum- delle hard. Then look thou have mercure redy, true and good; see he be strenyd and claryfyed well throgh a pease of ledder whyte, without ony holes for he wyll goo, thou mayst wryng hym throgh with thy honds ; this do, then putt hym to the metell as hote and shortly and as fast as itt is posseble, and cover itt then with a glasse meyt for the cruceable lyek to a urynall, and lute itt that no aer go out, and iff thou see ony thing ascend and wold flee, bee sure of hym, that is the principall thing, and itt is callytt, spiritus fug tens. Take hym and save him in ony wyes, that is the thing that maks all perfyte to owre purposse. Then fyrst thou mayst prove hym and thou wyllt take hym, and as' sone as thou thinks the metell is cold, brake up the lute, and save the glasse, and handyll itt faer, and kepe well that that thou fyends in the glasse, and close itt be these] fe. That done, take thi cruceable, and depart the Saturne and the Mercure, and look that thi Mercure be pure and clene frome Saturne, and then put the spyrytt to his awne body so mortyfyed, and when he is cold, and iff the body resave the spyritt againe, itt is perffyte, iff he wyll not prove hym againe. When the body is so cold, put hym into a clene cruceable, and molt hym, and when he is soluble and sumwhat lyquyt, nott to hote nor to cold, put the fugytyve spyrytt to his body thus mortyfyed, and he wyll resave hym againe. Then thou hast provydyd and laboryd well to procede forth to thi purposse and to cum to the vary knolych now thou mayst surely procede to make thy medycine off the same mortyfyed body as itt shall appere hereafter. Fyrst provyde for a pott well anelyd off ertli, or a glasse mete for the same](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24927004_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
