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do this in the morning original: "fac eius manē"
violent / intense original: "vehemens"
nothing will happen original: "nihil fiet"
concerning the way original: "de viō"
The preparation and the material of which this is the mixture, placed in after do this in the morning.
In the morning, and if by one step through the day it is sealed, or if it shows a violent
and slow appearance, and the wine which you make through distilled water The text uses "aqua" as a technical term for a solvent or base, nothing will happen.
However, [take] those which are double the amount of water while it is permitted, or concerning the way
distill, [and] annihilate through world-dung fimus: horse manure, used in alchemy as a source of gentle, steady heat for digestion until it is washed through...
let it reside, six [parts] of it strained through a common cloth, and after that it may be strong, and which...
by ways, if you wish to strain, and take it in hand; if a man should do it in another way...
to do it, it would be done so that [while] trembling, [place] the vessel in the smoke or heat/fume in one [part] and take the whole...
and I shall overwhelm the philosophers term: "philosophos" usually refers to alchemical authorities or the "Sons of Art" and the same water as [it rises] from above...
buried humatā: likely referring to "inhumation," placing a vessel in the earth or dung and under the [authority?]. Likewise, you should place it in the smoke one morning; by
distilling it makes a fine benefit, and the act of distillation term: "distillatō" is better, or...
in the way that fifteen ways are made for its water, clear and limpid, received...
afterwards, the calming alum, however, it is, and make it so that it stands for two [days?]...
and alum in white wool, [pure?], and so let it stand for eight days...
and [the glass?] the same through the smoke until the morning...
and one [part] until it ceases to boil, and after that...
one with alum in a light fire, and in the morning...
after it has boiled in the glass with alum in a light fire term: "ignis"...
falling from the wall with [hooks?] and [pierced?] for a long time and more...
after which it is better translated trallate: likely "transferred" from one vessel to another through a long [time] and you should make...
and silver term: "luna" (the moon) is the alchemical cipher for silver so that it is better than wine... with stone and...
[artine?] to you while another... again in the same way...
to boil with alum even to the [third?] and two...
way to make and strain through a common cloth and alum...
and by ways it becomes clear in the smoke for them...
[perfect?] from the dregs so that it does not [perish?]...
[vitreous?] pores, and this man says that rock salt term: "sal gēmmæ": pure crystalline salt...
wine... sal ammoniac term: "sal armoniac": ammonium chloride, a key alchemical reagent and if... through silver and let it be made...
which again, and if it is far off, he knows; read therefore...
[which] he made for the common people, otherwise you will be killed. Many...
[abbot?] so that I might know the hidden things of others, which in secret...
and those things in the manifestation... beware of it and [be well]...
[because] those things were led... he was reading another thing, which if...
his own... in which...
to worthy men, and after this, which is poorly understood, I shall say...
[thoy] in nothing failing, and from the poor... after the way...
to the lead and [fullness?]... for us...
of this and water of life term: "aqua vitæ": concentrated alcohol or a potent solvent in the smoke of the philosophers... behold...