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

2. Folio 19. First part of the Practice based on the Testament of Raymond Lully. original Latin: "Prima pars Practicae super Testamentum Raymundi Lullii."
   Folio 36. Second part of the Practice.
   Folio 51. Here begins the Compendium, which is called the Codicil original: "Codicillus," a small supplement or "little book" or the Vade Mecum Latin for "go with me," referring to a handbook or portable guide concerning the number of philosophers, or the Coda of the Testament of Raymond.
   Folio 101. The Song of Raymond. original: "Cantilena Raymundi." A famous alchemical poem.
   Folio 105. Book on the investigation of the hidden secret. original: "Liber de investigatione secreti occulti."
   Folio 110. Compendium of the soul, addressed to Robert, King of the English. original: "Compendium animae, ad Robertum, Anglorum Regem." While the text identifies him as King of the English, this is often interpreted in Lullian studies as a reference to Robert the Wise of Naples.
   Folio 124. Here begins the Compendium, or the Lesser Magic, concerning the composition of the philosopher's stone.
   Folio 129. On the investigation of the hidden secret, a treatise. Produced in Avignon in the Monastery of the Friars Preachers The Dominican Order in the year of our Lord 1309.
   Folio 134. Raymond’s Lapidary. original: "Lapidarius," a text detailing the medicinal and magical properties of gemstones.
   Folio 144. The Operative Art of Raymond Lully.
   Folio 154. The Commentary on the Testament of Raymond, addressed to Edward, King of the English. original: "Apparatus super Testamentum... ad Odoardum Regem Anglorum." Edward II and Edward III were both legendary patrons of Lullian alchemy in later traditions.

It is highly probable that Lully’s contemporary, Arnald Arnaldus de Villa Nova, a famous physician and alchemist, (born 1235, died 1313, aged 78) studied medicine in the year 1260 at Montpellier *). He afterwards taught medicine and surgery there. In that city, in the Rue du Campnau, opposite the former Capuchin monastery, they still show the house where he lived, and the

*) Memoirs to serve the history of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier; by the late Mr. Jean Astruc. Paris, 1767. Quarto. page 153 and following. On page 155, 1270 appears as a typographical error. Jean Astruc (1684–1766) was a significant French physician and professor whose history of Montpellier remains a primary source.