The moving prologue begins.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, here begins the book of a certain alchemy original: "alkamie" which Morienus the Roman produced for King Khalid of Egypt, and which Hermes, by his authority, translated from Arabic into Latin as the prologue of this book.

Almand

Adris Idris, Morienus, the translator of the law of ancient histories and divine arts, was a philosopher.

Because they called the first of them by such a name, and he was Enoch, who by another name was called Hermes, and by another name Idris in Arabic; the second was Noah, who similarly is called by another name Hermes and by another name in Arabic. In their time, however, there was a Hermes who reigned in Egypt after the flood and worked in that same Egypt for a long time. This man, however, years before the passing of the world—namely, he is a god likely referring to the deification of Hermes/Thoth—was a collector of the skill of virtues for himself, namely for the sake of God's grace of reason; in him was the truth of xph? philosophy. He was a philosopher skilled in all the arts and disciplines, both liberal and mechanical, and was the first inventor and author of them after the flood. For the things which came after were recorded in his name; they wished to follow in his footsteps, which is called the Treatise of Hermes. He brought back to memory his long and divine book regarding the Great Art or the treatise of the azores possibly referring to "azoth" or a specific alchemical preparation, which he brought back to form, extracted by the revelation of our Lord, not received in the Lord by study or by the effort of showing or explaining how the thing might be held. But for this reason, he also has the name inscribed in the prologue of the treatise, he who rendered this book by his own intention. For this is a divine book, filled with divine things, full and not disguised in the reason of its work, as if it were not born in the land of the prophet, so to speak grammatically. In this book, moreover, one studies to understand fully the living, true, and right way, not a servile way; insufficiencies cannot provide that. For on account of this, the book of Morienus on alchemy original: "elkimie"—which is called alchemy for its own reason, just as matter is said to have generated matters in the beginning—that name was placed there for the ignorant, or according to a wonderful and difficult reason it is revealed. Hermes says that he wants it to be concerning the matter of alchemy, and he defined the terms therein. For he says in the book revealed upon the muracõe? treatise: Alchemy is the mistress of the body from one proper kind, which works and profits... The text here becomes highly technical and abbreviated, referring to "zaffra" (sapphire/cobalt) and "sol" (gold/the sun) ...by the Lord who is King. Which is explained through the clarity of words namely, which is elsewhere in full.

A true philosopher

Substance

Morienus says Alchemy original: "Alkyma" is the science teaching how the genus of metals may be preserved in their proportions, passing into the earth by its own reason; it does not destroy the art, but deprives itself of it. More difficult toward sublimation, degeneration, and subtle coagulation, which I call.

The word Alchemy

Alkyma is called alchemy Alchemy is also the pure [light?] of Alexander... as much as it is called a worthy petition from the earth, or alchemy is the boldness of the elixirs... so that they do not pass into unworthy effects. It is, however, a thing of greatness and wonderful. An action gradually generating the eternal in earthly things, conferring upon earthly things the magnitude of all worldly of the world things.

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Alchemy gives seven...

In the seven...