The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.

Title

The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.

Author

Ripley, George, d. 1490?

Publication

London :: Imprinted by Thomas Orwin,

1591.

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Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.

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"The compound of alchymy. Or The ancient hidden art of archemie conteining the right & perfectest meanes to make the philosophers stone, aurum potabile, with other excellent experiments. Diuided into twelue gates. First written by the learned and rare philosopher of our nation George Ripley, sometime Chanon of Bridlington in Yorkeshyre: & dedicated to K. Edvvard the 4. Whereunto is adioyned his epistle to the King, his vision, his wheele, & other his workes, neuer before published: with certaine briefe additions of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10786.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE MOST HIGH and Mightie PRINCESSE, ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD QVEENE of England, Fraunce, & Ire∣land, Defender of the faith, &c.
• To the right Honourable, Wor∣shipfull, and worthy Gentlemen of England, and other learned & indu∣strious Students in the secrets of Philosophie.
• Thomas Newtonus Cestreshyrius.
• J.D. gent: in praise of the Author, and his Worke.
• P. Bales Gent. in commendation of the Author, and his twelue gates: Orderly set down in the 12. last verses.
• The Summe of this VVorke, learnedly reduced into these few Verses, by the diuine Poet Palingenius.
• S.E.K. concerning the Philosophers Stone, written to his especiall good friend, G.S. Gent.
• The Vision of Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington.
• Titulus operis.
• A briefe note to the Readers.
• The Compound of Alchymie. A most excellent, learned, and wor∣thie worke, written to king Edward tht fourth, by Sir George Ripley, Chanon of Bridlington in York-shire, con∣tayning twelue gates. The Prologue.
• The Preface.
• part
  • Of Calcination. The first Gate.
  • Of Dissolution. The second Gate.
  • Of Seperation. The third gate.
  • Of Coniunction. The fourth Gate.
  • Of Putrifaction. The fift Gate.
  • Of Congelation. The sixt Gate.
  • Of Cibation. The seuenth Gate.
  • Of Sublimation. The eight Gate.
  • Of Firmentation. The ninth Gate.
  • Of Exaltation. The tenth Gate.
  • Of Multiplication. The eleuenth Gate.
  • Of Proiection. The twelfth Gate.
• Recapitulatio totius operis praedicti.
• An Admonition, wherein the Author declareth his erronious Experiments.
• The Epistle by the same Author written to King Edward the 4.
• George Ripleys Wheele mentioned in his Worke.
• To the indifferent Reader.