...of the simple, non-burning sulfur. leaf, 287 original: "simplicis non urentis." Sulfur was often classified by its purity and whether it would "burn" or react in certain ways during the chemical process.

XII. How white and red sulfur exist in the Moon and the Sun. 291 In alchemical texts, the Moon usually refers to silver and the Sun refers to gold.

XIII. That it is not useful to seek this sulfur in other sick bodies. 292 Alchemists used the term "sick bodies" to describe base metals that they believed needed to be "cured" or transmuted into gold.

XIV. That gold cures infirmities and other metallic bodies. 294

XV. That only two particular methods are true in this art, the first of which involves Mercury. 298 Mercury, or quicksilver, was considered one of the primary components of all metals.

XVI. Regarding the second particular method, which involves the Moon. 303

XVII. On sophisticated or deceptive particular methods. 304

XVIII. A general discourse on the universal way. 307

End of the Correctorium of Richard the Englishman.

OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE

contained in the Lesser Rosary. The Rosarium minus (Lesser Rosary) is an anonymous medieval alchemical text that provides a practical guide to the creation of the Philosopher's Stone.

The Preface has three sections.

Section		Page
I.	An enigma regarding the art of Alchemy, and on the author's method of treatment.	309
II.	An admonition that two kinds of deceivers must be avoided, and that the art consists in fixed Mercury.	311
III.	On the same, that fixed Mercury brings completion; and the division of operations and of the book into two parts, or into two chapters.	313

The first chapter has twenty-one sections.

Section		Page
I.	A promise and division of things to be said concerning the operations of Alchemy.	314
II.	On the calcination of Saturn and Jupiter. Calcination is the process of heating a substance to high temperatures to reduce it to powder. Saturn refers to lead, and Jupiter refers to tin.	in the same place
III.	On the calcination of Venus and Mars. Venus refers to copper, and Mars refers to iron.	315
IIII.	On the calcination of the Sun and the Moon.	316
V.	On the calcination of other things and mixtures.	in the same place
VI.	On the sublimation of spirits. Sublimation is the process of turning a solid directly into a gas and back into a solid. "Spirits" refer to volatile substances like mercury, sulfur, or arsenic.	in the same place
VII.	On the sublimation of imperfect bodies.	317
VIII.	On the sublimation of perfect bodies.	in the same place