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{Recipe} 3 parts tin, 2 copper, and 40 Lead. {Recipe} much decrep. salt, a little {sal ammoniac} & a moder. quant. of {antimony} after the 1st fusion 2 or 3 houres of stronge fire, repeated, if need be, once or twice.

Another to (the same purpose) or a better.

{Recipe} Banasis {ounce} i 1/2, sal. communis {ounce} vi Jovis {ounce} iv. Postea, pro {ounce} i. materiæ relictæ, {Recipe} Banasis {ounce} i salis communis {drachm} ii (sive, unciæ 1/4 Detine in igne forti, per 3 aut 4 horas.

[Retrospective marginalia:]
Tb'd
May the 24th. 80.

{Recipe} Banasis partem i sal. communis partes v fund. simul'i' altered from 'a' Dein {Recipe} huius misturæ & Kursellæ circiter ana & igne fortiss. destrue quantum poteris.

[Retrospective marginalia:]
Tb'd
Dec. the 26th

{Recipe} Banasis & Kursell. ana {ounce} i Salis comm. fusi {ounce} vi. (or {ounce} iv.) [Misce[?]] & igne fortiss. destrue quantum pot.