The Golden Fleece

4. Suginot's procedure. original: "Suginot Stuck"; here "Stuck" refers to a specific chemical "piece" or laboratory procedure. Suginot likely refers to an alchemist's name.
5. Two Colophonian likely referring to Colophony or rosin, or perhaps a place name fixations upon the Viscous original: "Viscosam" or Lead ♄: Lead and crude Mercury ☿: Mercury.
6. How one is to clarify the seven metals and to precipitate the dissolved bodies into one another.
7. The viscous well or grading water. Gradierwasser: A specialized acidic or salty solution used in refining (grading) to improve the purity and color of gold and silver.
8. Grading water from the Hungarian coagulant.
9. Grading water to grade Silver ☽: Silver to the Rhenish grade. Rhenish grade refers to the standard of purity for silver coinage used in the Rhineland.
10. Two secret, excellent, and high Augments. Augment: A process intended to increase the quantity of a precious metal, often through alloying or specific chemical "multiplication."
11. Tincture-like grading oil, with the Black Eagle, sold to Mr. Hans von Schellenburg. The "Black Eagle" is often an alchemical symbol for the sublimation of mercury or a specific mineral like sal ammoniac.
12. Procedure with Silver.
13. Tincture-like cement powder, commissioned by a Count of Görz. Zimentpulver: A powder used in "cementation," a dry refining process where gold is heated with salts to remove impurities.
14. A "Particular" procedure, which a poor journeyman should perform. A "Particular" work is one that transmutes a specific amount of metal or works on a specific substance, as opposed to the "Universal" work of the Philosopher's Stone.
15. Perpetual Fire original: "Ignis perpetuis", which is a Mercurial Water original: "Aqua Mercurialis".
16. The Tincture of Father Gregory the monk original: "Tinctura patris Gregorij monachi", who was a disciple of Master Arnaldus de Villa Nova. Arnaldus de Villa Nova (c. 1240–1311) was a famous physician and alchemist.
17. Oil of Mercury. original: "Oleum Mercurij"
18. Two eternal, inexpressible, temporal lights of Johannes Trithemius. Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) was a celebrated abbot, cryptographer, and occult scholar.

Third Treatise.

1. Splendor Solis original: "Splendor solis," Latin for "The Splendor of the Sun"; a famous 16th-century alchemical manuscript known for its spectacular symbolic illustrations. with beautiful figures.
2. The Mirror of Alchemy original: "Spiegel der Alchymey" of Mr. Ulrich Poysel.
3. The Key original: "Clauis" along with its explanation of chemical manipulations.
1. Royal Water of the Philosophers. original: "Aqua regis Philofophorum"; while Aqua Regia is usually a mixture of acids used to dissolve gold, the "Philosophical" version often refers to a secret solvent.
2. Essentificated Mercury. original: "Mercurius Effenfuicatus"; likely referring to mercury that has been processed into its quintessential or "living" form.
3. The frozen ice-water.
4. Mercurial Water of the Philosophers. original: "Aqua mercurialis Philofophorum"