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so that it may be cultivated original: "colatur" within the stone
And note that it is very useful in many ways; they said that they distill water with red vinegar, which comes together with the waters, and it preserves [it] as long as one wishes with calamine zinc ore.
Oil of glass likely a thick, oily liquid produced by chemical reaction, not literal glass oil is to be heated in the fire, and then it gives off the odor of vinegar to you.
it has a little, let it be cultivated in the stone
It has a little, let it be cultivated in the stone; let it have from the beginning out of the earthy ones four [parts] of boar [fat?]
and a third time...
and a third time with vinegar, so that it can be delighted perhaps "refined" or "clarified"; let it lose [its body] thus either by heating the earth, but they are in them after I stretch the whole over the faces; for let them make or act separately, prepared with sal ammoniac.
Oveneth possibly a corruption of a name or substance here [is] a similar piece to the fourth residue, another which [is] to be roasted in the fire; because if it serves again, let it be made into a fried [mass] of clay-like material and parts of saltpeter, which is to be dried in the sun with ox gall; thus it is almost done with
water if it has [it] in the stone
heating in the fire, and from the beginning concerning the administration and
Alcohol here referring to a fine metallic powder, likely stibnite or galena with some water; you come to add [it] for up to seven days, twice a day it makes concerning the administration of azure.
Take a portion of ointment of ox feet and a little honey;
act in the sun
[put it] for a day in the sun, but you [do it] thus so that it lasts for a term of six or five days.
Carnelian and coral to the vulture possibly a reference to a specific vessel or a symbolic alchemical stage; we give to make a pot of the pieces; remember, and thereafter even to the almiradum likely a mineral salt or tartar, because you shall distill the carnelian in vinegar in equal weight, the thing with water for six or five days.
Item: concerning the administration of azure from red vinegar for five days.
Take the almiradum, because of the hardness of the vinegar, in equal fifths, seven to five days; cooked with sal ammoniac in the sun... Item: the thing for azure with vinegar... distill it... to be done twice a day for five days.
Silver original: "Argentum" a third time diminished... added with vinegar while concerning the administration for a day... act so that the azure...
Vermilion, which is... in equal things... distill the vinegar over it... with water for seven days. Note on the administration of azure.
Gum with almiradum in equal [parts], as much as you wish; distill two [parts] of wine, purify [it]; act concerning the administration of Atir possibly a yellow pigment or "Atyrum".
Atynka likely Borax, from the Arabic 'al-tinkar', behold seven parts of sulfur to go with the fat of ox feet... ten parts of ointment... concerning the administration of silver.
Quick-silver original: "A vivum"
Silver, grind it a third time, which I distill with red juice... when it was water of the leaf... experienced those.
Quicksilver mercury with vinegar concerning the administration of gold, eight [parts] mixed in equal [parts] with... properly the filings... place it... lightly... apply it to the upper vessels... or that which is a totally pure broken account.
Ammoniac original: "Ammum", my ointment, so that it becomes of the best gold; whatever you wish with rock salt, burn it directly... strongly... you shall place it. Then to a light [heat]... it wants to be turned in or [with] saltpeter; its gold is most pure in the fire, which through parts is thirstier and swifter; this however is discerned by the species; it multiplies metals.
item concerning the parts
Item, because the part comes... cooked with glass alum, tartar, [and] salt in a copper pan easily concerning the administration.