Literary Notices on the History of So-called Gold-making

...of this elixir-like table. Just so you do for all the other tables, giving the stated letters to those, and according to the number of the sulfurous tables, which causes the increase or decrease of the stated letters, etc. In like manner, you can make a mixture of elixirs from table to table by moving through the chambers of the first, either simply or compositely, through the chambers of all the others, the doctrine of which movement should be prompted for you by the table of the second composition, etc. original Occitan/Catalan: "tion de questa taula elixiriesque... la taula de la 2da composicion etc." In Lullian alchemy, "tables" and "chambers" refer to combinatorial diagrams used to calculate chemical proportions.

Folio 160. Various scales of the boiling of Mercury, the digestion of the bodies of Saturn and Jupiter, etc. original Latin: "Variae Scalae decoctionis Mercurii, digestionis corporum Saturni atque Iovis etc." In alchemical code, Saturn represents lead and Jupiter represents tin.

Folio 161. — And if you understand the explanation of this, you will be able to expand or improve it as much as you wish into many particular and universal virtues to be a physician above all physicians. And thus we bring to a close the figures of our testament, and we give thanks to God who has given us fulfillment among us and has reached the present end. Amen. original Occitan/Catalan: "Et si dasso entends la declaracion... el present finement. Amen."

Folio 162 b. Here ends the testament of the illustrious master Raymond; thanks be to God forever. original Latin: "Explicit testamentum preclari magistri Raymundi deo gracias in eternum."

Compendium of another treatise by Ramon Lull in 21 chapters. Unpublished. original Latin: "Compendium alius tractatus Raymundi Lullii Capitum XXI. Ineditum."

Folio 167, 168 Various recipes; e.g., the method of Johannes Sottegen. This name also appears on Folio 75 b.

The second codex was very beautifully written in Italy in the year 1422, on 162 large quarto sheets.

Folio 1. Here begins the Apertorium of Ramon Lull with its Keys. The prologue to the same begins auspiciously. original Latin: "Incipit Apertorium Raymundi Lulii cum Clavibus suis. Prologus in eundem feliciter incipit." An Apertorium is an "opening" or introductory text designed to unlock the secrets of more difficult works.