炼金术手稿。 十七世纪托马斯·诺顿的《炼金法则》的英文手稿，

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ALCHEMICAL MANUSCRIPT.:Seventeenth-century English manuscript transcription of Thomas Norton\’s The Ordinal of Alchemy, 182 x 150 mm, 104 numbered pp, ink on paper, written rectos and versos, initial blank lettered \”A.a.a.a.b.b.b.c.c.d.d.,\” and two additional blanks at rear, [England, 17th-century]. Bound in modern paper wrappers.
Provenance: From the collection of Robert Raymo.

One of the most famous works of English Alchemy, the Ordinal is a 15th-century poem of 3000+ lines composed by Thomas Norton (c.1433–1513) the chief disciple of England\’s grandmaster of Alchemy, George Ripley (from whom Norton here says he \”learned all the secrets of Alkimy\”). The Ordinal is a broad-based work of alchemy discussing the philosopher\’s stone and the transmutation of the elements into gold, together with the medicinal aspects of alchemy; it additionally conveys specific information about the relevance of color, music, and the positioning of the planets to the alchemical process. The Ordinal was first published in English in Ashmole\’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652). There are minor differences between this text and that printed by Ashmole, suggesting either a pre-1652 date of transcription or an alternative manuscript tradition. Only some 32 manuscript exemplars of this text are known to be extant.

炼金术手稿。 十七世纪托马斯·诺顿的《炼金法则》的英文手稿，