⚠The image is severely faded, with heavy bleed-through from the verso page making transcription difficult. There is a dark ink smudge in the bottom right corner.

M. F. W. A.? Likely the initials of a former owner or the scribe. 1617

The present

little book is

named Splendor

Solis or Sun-Splendor;

a treatise and book

which describes

the artistic gold-making original: "goldm:" (goldmachen). The process of transmutation.

and of those? Medicines original: "Artzeney." In alchemy, this refers to the Philosopher's Stone as a universal curative for both metals and the human body.