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Expand 1 - Boyle Papers1 - Boyle Papers
Collapse 2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others2 - Notebooks of Robert Boyle and others
Collapse 1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.1 - Collection of alchemical tracts formerly owned by Sir Kenelm Digby.
1 - Le grand oeuvre des Philosophes Par Philippe Rouillach Piedmontois Religieux de l'Ordre de St Francois d'Assise et premier Philosophe de son temps.
2 - Pratique du grand oeuvre des Philosophes. Par Philippe Rouillach Piedmontois.
3 - Teinture d'un poids sur 25 de [silver].
4 - Le Diuin oeuvre des Philosophes.
5 - Ultimum patris ad filium Testamentum, in quo vera phisica particularia, minimè sophistica explicantur; et lapis philosophorum verbis haud ambiguis, sed claris, ac dilucidis traditur, paucis operis clavibus reservatis.
6 - Opus universale sive lapis philosophorum universalis.
7 - 'Observations sur l'oeuvre Universel susdit; qu'on ne m'a jamais voulu permettre d'escrire, comme il estoit dans le livre susdit'.
8 - 'Extrait d'une letter de Neptis au Druide, sur l'Operation de la procedure de frere Phillipon communiqué par Monsieur Landrinier 1er Januier 1608.
9 - Untitled recipe
10 - 'De Magisterio sive de investigatione secreti occulti'.
11 - 'Premiere [etc., to 7e] Pratique sur la Matiere vegetable Ex Manuscripto Ray. Lullii'.
12 - 'Dialogue d'Aaron avec Marie'.
13 - 'Copie des papiers du Maltraicté'.
14 - Operation per l'esprit ou litharge Naturelle des metaux' (fol. 323) and 'Ouvre sur la Calamite blanche, qui est esprit d'Argent' (fol. 324).
15 - 'Medicine au Blanc' (fols. 327-8) and 'Arbre Philosophique [?] qui va en proiection' (fols. 329-31).
16 - 'Ouvrage qui se faict par les moyens substances, A ment [?] Magistere Par La Moyere, substance Arsenic'.
17 - Various recipes.
18 - 'Operation sur les deux luminaries et sur le [Mercury]'.
19 - 'Du cristal mineral'.
20 - 'Pro Amico Veneto' (verses).
21 - 'Remede ou preservatif apologetique pour Appius medisant satiriquement contre le phiosophie adepte'
2 - 'Excerpta made out of severall Authors. AD 1663': a commonplace book. Extracts from travel books, medical works and books on natural philosophy.
Expand 3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.3 - Catalogue of John Warr's library and miscellaneous notes.
4 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
5 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
6 - 'Clangor Buccinae: Le Son de Trompete ou du Clarion. Traicte excellent & admirable racceuilly d'une excripture fort ancienne: dicourant a tous philosophes fidellement & physicalement de la Pierre des Philosophes, Mis en francois par I. Fornier. 1573.
7 - Series of sermons on Phil. 4. 8.
8 - Medical commonplace book used by Boyle and Lady Ranelagh.
Expand 9 - MS 439 - MS 43
Expand 10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.10 - Boyle's Geneva notebook.
11 - 'On the spirit of a Man' Theological treatise on text of 1 Thessalonians 5. 25.
12 - 'Enarratio methodica trium Geberi medicinarum in quibus continetur vera Lapidus Philosophici confectio'.
13 - George Starkey, Laboratory notebook.
14 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 1.
15 - Concordance of medical data, arranged alphabetically by heading, part 2.
Expand 16 - MS 18516 - MS 185
Expand 17 - MS 18617 - MS 186
Expand 18 - MS 18718 - MS 187
Expand 19 - MS 18819 - MS 188
Expand 20 - MS 18920 - MS 189
Expand 21 - MS 19021 - MS 190
Expand 22 - MS 19122 - MS 191
Expand 23 - MS 19223 - MS 192
Expand 24 - MS 19324 - MS 193
Expand 25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].25 - Miscellaneous chymical recipes and material concerning Boyle's accounts and landholdings [Workdiary 33].
Expand 26 - MS 19526 - MS 195
Expand 27 - MS 19627 - MS 196
Expand 28 - MS 19728 - MS 197
Expand 29 - MS 19829 - MS 198
Expand 30 - MS 19930 - MS 199
Expand 31 - MS 20031 - MS 200
Expand 3 - The Boyle Letters3 - The Boyle Letters
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