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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![sumwhat with a byg mowth, so that a stone of good quantyte may go in to the same pott or glasse. Then provyde for a stone whychis clepyd or cald, Lapis Adamantis, or in Englysh a shyp- man stone or a lood stone that thei sael by. Iff thou wyll prove this stone wheder he have his full vertu and stregh or no, here mayst leerne. Questio dijfficilis est quo modo adamas attrahat f 'errum, etc. Hcec Johannes de sancto Amando in libro me. [dicinalium .?] ubi loquitur de venenis quomodo unum venenum attrahat reliquum. Explicit. SECUNDUM MESNAY. In lapidibus preciosis generaliter requiritur matence puritas virtus et preciositas, etc.— reperitur in Affrica. Trahere autem in se argentum l. Es. dicitur, etc. Take this stone that hath vertu, and putt itt in to thi pott of glas, and also put thi mercury as it is sayd befor mortyfyed in to the same pott to the stone, all hole, both the stone and the mercure, and stoppe the pott hard ; than take and lute thi pott that no aer go forth, for then thou leys all thi labor. This done, prepare thy fyer temperatly in a chymnay, and ther thou must have emmers and ashis lay in ij. placis within the chymnay nott far in sunder ; fyrst make fyer in oon place above the ashis to thei be hote, and leve summe off the emmers to kepe heet, and ther sett thy pott, and the colys thou takyst from thes lay them above the oder ashis and kepe fyer above them to thou suppose the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24927004_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
