Pretiosa margarita novella de thesauro, ac pretiosissimo philosophorum lapide : artis huius divinae typus, et methodus: collectanea ex Arnaldo, Rhaymundo, Rhasi, Alberto, et Michaele Scoto

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With this attained, from H, that is from the blackening color, count all the days up to this term, and double their sum; and cherish the M itself, already risen, with a more lively fire; receive it reverently after having opened the vessel, and cleanse it from any filth if there should be any, and when you have had the same again in a fire slightly more vehement for a full six days, keep it most diligently for your use and that of your friends, for it will change two thousand parts into its own virtue and nature.

WHEN, however, you will take care to make Q from M, join one dram of M to three ounces of D and one of C, and cook the whole in a most tempered fire for thirty days, and pass it through K, until you see the perfect Q, round and red. Or if it were moon-like: infected with metallic whiteness. For they differ, K as M, red and white, and each Q distant from one another. For the first of the whitening M will appear green, sprinkled with redness. The second, yellow and somewhat brilliantly red. The third, snowy and metallic whiteness, which will change three thousand parts of S and T, and Z indeed up to five thousand, into its own species and virtue. And it will generate (if that seems good to you) from itself also a most powerful Q. These things having been attained and perfected, consider yourself the greatest of all craftsmen, and give thanks to God, the greatest and best, everywhere and always. Behold for you, most excellent reader, a little gift, the future age will see how true this statement is.