⚠The manuscript contains several layers of writing, including extremely faded pencil notes that are difficult to decipher in their entirety. Transcription focuses on legible entries.

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Sendivogius Michael Sendivogius (1566–1636) was a world-renowned Polish alchemist and chemist, famous for his theories on the "food of life" in the air (later identified as oxygen)., the famous alchemist of the 17th century. This edition is not noted by Caillet Albert Caillet, author of a definitive bibliography on occult and alchemical books published in 1912. nor by Dorbon Lucien Dorbon, a famous Parisian bibliophile and bookseller specializing in "esoterica.".

Pope Leo X presented to Augurello Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (c. 1441–1524) was an Italian poet and alchemist. He dedicated his poem on gold-making, Chrysopoeia, to the Pope. a large empty purse, so that he might store within it the gold he knew how to create This is a famous satirical anecdote; the Pope was suggesting that if Augurello truly knew the secret of making gold, he required nothing from the Church but a bag to hold his riches..

De Vege, a spagyric spagyric: a term coined by Paracelsian doctors referring to the production of medicines through the alchemical process of separation and recombination physician. Van Drebbel Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), a Dutch inventor and alchemist who famously built the first navigable submarine. is not mentioned.