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Take a liquor made only of the red fumes of Ormum + and poure 1 lb of it upon {ounce} vi of the same (fresh) body crude but very pure, distill these ex arena and <you will have an>replacing 'with a pho', Boyle hand allmost insipid menstruum proceed s. a. deleted

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Take of Mars {ounce} ii, Albudo {ounce} iv bring them in a strong fire to be ready to melt, and then cast on them (not all at once) 1 lb {antimony}, keepe them a time in fusion and poure them out into a fitt vessell, where under a slack resembling a fine'i' altered from 'a' Marchasite there will settle a Regulus, which you must rest on a Test oraltered from 'Tester' Cuppell'ell' altered from 'le', till it either cease to fume or doe begin to cover it self. Then mix with <it>replacing 'It', Boyle hand one part of Barachid and one part of Bavarum and then proceed with Lead [secundum artem]<[ tis for an extraction or Augment.>insertion in line in unidentified hand

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Take of Torus <[Tura I thinke]>in Boyle hand one part, of Tasaifa 8 parts and of Tura about 4 parts; when the second is ready to melt, put in by degrees a little of the third and when the mixture is melted, cast in the first and increase the fire that all may be perfectly united in to a red fusible substance, as to deleted to sense homogeneous. Then continue at least the fire if you doe not increase it, casting in by degrees the rest of the Tura and keepeing all in good fusion in which 'twill appeare in an Uniform reddish substance dissoluble in water wine and {spirit of wine}. But if you keepe it in the fire too long 'twill vitrify <tis to make a Vitrum Solare>insertion in line in unidentified hand.

Take two parts of {unidentified symbol} sal mirabile one part of Durca and keepe them stratified in a good fire for two or three howers,

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Take of good Sublimate one part, and of strong Sp. of Taquema 2 parts (q) (or els vice versa) and haveing distill'd them ad siccitatem in this menstruum dissolve Japan copper, which will let fall a white substance reducible by Borax or Anatron or Nitre in to seeming Sylver, which yet being mixd with the above said