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From this medium, take eight ounces original: ".℥. VIII."; the symbol ℥ denotes an ounce of rock salt sal gemma: a pure form of sodium chloride, often called "gem salt" or halite and one ounce of strong vinegar. Mix it all well in an alembic a distilling apparatus consisting of two vessels connected by a tube. After this, cook the whole mixture with a weak fire, like the flame of a candle, until everything is dissolved into water and the alembic remains. You will find a blackness in the "earth" the solid residue or dregs at the bottom and the water raised above it. alembic You should then pour out? strong vinegar over it and wash it with the vinegar from one leznadabin? possibly a corrupted term for a specific vessel or measure in this way, and then return to the first ounce.

The Book of Alchemy which is called "The Whole Body" original: "lib. Alchi- mi. qui dicitur Corpus totū"

And afterward, you shall take a small earthenware vessel original: "libellum unū fictilē"; while "libellum" usually means a small book, the context of "earthenware" and "bottom hole" indicates a crucible or pot with a hole in its bottom through which one brick can enter. Place one or two bricks on a flat surface and put the mouth of the vessel upon the bricks. Place tartar potassium bitartrate, a byproduct of winemaking used as a flux around it in the great space, through which hole the fire can enter, so that the heat of the fire has no way of escaping.

And afterward, set that alembic over another fire. Add one ounce one? of the water that was distilled in glass, for in this way everything is joined in one place with lute. Seal it here with magical lute original: "luto magniali"; a specialized airtight sealing paste and set it to dry. Afterward, place fire in the furnace and act so that the vessel becomes red, and afterward white. On the brick which is placed entirely in a vessel? in that furnace, let it sit through the whole night, and at the end in the morning, draw it out and let it be finished.

And afterward, take it and put it in the vessel of the alembic mi? [measure] and congeal it until it is dry?. Another [measure]... keep it here in a wooden furnace for three more days. Extract it, and let it be made? in tartar. Afterward, take it from here, and in glass it "drinks" the water; afterward place over it [the amount] of the aforementioned water each time and place it in the furnace as before.

And for the [third] time, take from that alembic by one ounce. Here, if [treated] by means of Mars original: "martis"; the alchemical name for Iron, you shall make from Luna original: "luna"; the alchemical name for Silver something better than that which comes from the mine. And afterward, take a part of that silver and ten ounces of it through the whole [process], and let it go to Sol original: "solē"; the alchemical name for Gold. Then it shall become praiseworthy and honored, since God wills it so through himself, the wise and honored one.

And if you wish to seek another in the sun, wash it according to this order I have described. Take the ounces and afterward the "middle water" and from the heats that came out of the red original: "rusu"; likely referring to the "rubedo" or reddening stage of the work. Expose it here with water in one vessel during the day in the hot sun on a glass plate, and work it with a pestle in this way. When it is night, put it in a vessel and place the vessel in the furnace lightly for the night, and when it is day, draw it out. Mix it here with an ounce of the aforementioned water and didia?.