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Pure water original: "aqua pura" extracted with distilled lime water original: "aqua calcis" idibao? lime
decoction twice by pounding and mixing And thus you shall always serve or
that let it be decanted through distilled rose water original: "aqua rosarum" almost relaxing in
the [substance] by standing and stirring with almond water original: "aqua amigdalorum" of cloves and
mixed in a medium furnace so that it might receive it most excellently.
Finally, one part of the heat of the office? can be for acting,
then thereafter you shall take the distilled parts and dissolve And thus it can serve others said
of the one together with the jars according to one y. d.? Then you shall dissolve afterward
second that which is congealed upon a plate; when it is divided afterward, not together with that which is cooked
in the moon In alchemy, "Luna" or Moon refers to Silver. let it drop. vinegar of the rust of the scales with a solution through
parts of the water of the rust to the water twice, for ten days for the same inhumation inhumationA process of burying a vessel in warm earth or dung to provide gentle, steady heat for digestion.
through the water with the oil from it, mixed for ten other days; let it be put back;
finally, indeed, it is congealed through one total strength of all.
And in this I have caught pearls
The whitest crystal of magnesia In this context, magnesia likely refers to a "primitive matter" or a specific mineral used as a starting point, not necessarily modern magnesium oxide.. Thus all through our earth,
the red rust for every weight of ten to the weight of another efme?
not anything with the white... with this red matter
from this powder... solution
mixed in a crucible in its glazed pot, let it be placed cad 16 v. p.
When it has been dried, extract the red smoke among all
the acts...
Take the hair of a man or a woman between 15 and 25 years of age.
Take this. Flat water, then from the soap. And likewise in
the second part in alchemy, which to the middle of the alembic alembicThe top part of a still, used for distilling liquids by cooling the vapors.
let it sit... afterward indeed distill the whole from the water,
having accepted the remaining such thing...
as it moves. Let that be decanted with... through water...
...purifying it so many times, doing this by washing and pounding
until a white crystalline plate in one vessel...
to the nose it should drop.
where the sun is dissolved
His pearl The "margarita" or pearl often represents the pure, finished product or the Philosopher's Stone itself., take from this lime calxA powder produced by heating a substance (calcination) to remove volatile elements.... or other
... gold leaf original: "foliato", pound... where indeed it is distilled
... with some...
... dissolved with it...
Finally... quiet in the furnace...
... when through the clear furnace...
Orpiment orpimentA yellow arsenic sulfide mineral, frequently used in alchemical attempts to create gold due to its color. from one salt
and... with distilled rose water... in this water
... afterward the powder... You will have it