Alchemiae Gebri Arabis philosophi solertissimi, libri, cum reliquis, ut versa pagella indicabit

matter and combustible, dreggy, and coarse [material] must be removed, with the aforementioned things, [which are] purified or pure, not having metallic fusion, mixed and well ground with the aforementioned lime, depurated in the aforementioned mode, which in fusion, or the reduction of the lime, will retain with themselves the aforementioned coarse and unclean earthiness, with the pure body remaining, cleansed from all corrupting superfluity. And all this [is done] by descending a specific distillation technique. The mode of improvement and subtiliation of these pure substances in general is this. First, this purged and reduced body must be calcined again with fire and the aforementioned purifying aids; then it must be dissolved with those things that are solvent. For this water is our stone, and quick-silver from quick-silver, and sulphur from sulphur, abstracted and subtiliated or attenuated from the spiritual body, which can be improved by strengthening the elemental virtues into it, with other preparations that are of the genus of its own genus: and by augmenting the color, fixation, weight, purity, fusion, and all other things that pertain to the perfect elixir. And this is the mode of preparation, depuration, subtiliation, and improvement of mineral bodies in general, investigated by us alone. Now let us cross over to the special or particular preparation of any imperfect body, with all its modes, also of the perfect mineral body. And first, concerning Jupiter Tin.

Jupiter is prepared in many ways, yet better by this mode. And it is, that it be placed in the furnace of calcination, in a vessel suitable for this, and let fire be projected beneath it up to the body's