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1 - 'Medulla Philosophiae. The marrow of Philosophy compiled by George Rypley (Ripley) cannon of Bridlinton [1476], copyed by me Thomas Potter 1580. together with the marginall notes that I found in the same coppy', and 'Fragmenta Riplaei'.
2 - 'Hic chara Philosophia mea Elixir in solo Mercurio': recipe for elixir using mercury solution, followed by 'Opus Rogeri Bacon' and letter from Ripley to [Arch]Bishop of York on elixir (pp. 63-8).
3 - Unpublished Latin translation of `Volatility' ('Mechanical Qualities')
4 - Unpublished Latin translation of `Fixedness' ('Mechanical Qualities')
5 - Unpublished Latin translation of parts of 'Languid Motion'.
6 - French recipes
7 - Text concerning chemical preparation of salts.
8 - Unpublished Latin translation of `A Short Memorial of some Observations made upon an Artificial Substance', ('Philosophical Collections', 1677)
9 - 'Remarques Curieuses sur la Roche dont on fabrique les turquoises d'Occident'
10 - German paper, evidently on assaying of minerals.
11 - French manuscript on chemistry, copied from a manuscript owned by M. de la Vour (cf. p. 387).
12 - Unpublished Latin translation of parts of 'Producibleness'.
13 - Incomplete French text describing process.
14 - Records of two experiments with a receiver, dated 16 March and 17 June (no year).
15 - Miscellaneous recipes and accounts of processes, etc.,
16 - [Workdiary 11]
17 - Italian extract endorsed 'La Chiave del Gabin. Del Cavagl. Borri', and Latin recipe.
18 - Verses on natural philosophy and list of proper 'Explications' for 'The Differing Degrees or kinds of knowledge of Nature'.
19 - [Thomas Henshaw], 'A Diary and a Practike given me by Mr Oughtred'
20 - Extracts from Latin works, including one by Zucchi (p. 453-4).
21 - Extracts from letters, some from Christopher Farner in Leipzig, others from Amsterdam, to Mr [John] Poleman, dated 4/18 March 1661, etc.
22 - Further Latin extracts, from Kircher and 'Andr. Alexandro Germanus'.
23 - Incomplete copy of Joachim Jungius' 'Protonoeticae Philosophiae Sciagraphia'
24 - Latin chemical notes (2 copies) and brief cosmological notes (p. 495).
25 - Incomplete transcript of Starkey's letter to Boyle of April/May 1651
26 - 'Barometricall Entrys': numbered notes on weather; dated September-October 1666 and various months of an unknown year.
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