Catalogue Entry: ALCH00033
'Several Questions concerning the Ph[ilosoph]ers St[one]'.
Custodial History
Bought at the Sotheby sale for £46 by Gabriel Wells and sold to Yahuda by 4 September 1936. Yahuda then exchanged it, together with SL33, for three lots bought by Keynes (SL236 (now Yahuda Var. 1 Ms. 5), SL258 (now Yahuda Var. 1 Ms. 23) and SL263 (now Babson Ms. 434)). See Spargo, '1936 sale', 130-31.
Sotheby Lot
SL72Contents
A dialogue between a novice and an adept, each 'Question' being followed by an answer. Transcript or translation of an anonymous unpublished work.
f. 1r 'Quest. 1. Of what kind is the true & only one Philosophical matter'
f. 1v 'Quest. 2. But how ought ye reduction into the first matter to be done.'
f. 2r 'Quest. 3. What is the signe of a perfect fixation and where by can it be known.'
f. 2v 'Quest. 4. But if it should ascend in the said operation what must be done.'
'Quest. 5. What is to be done when the tincture has obteined its perfection.'
f. 3r 'Quest. 6. What ought to be done wth this golden powder'
'Quest. 7. What hereafter'
f. 3v 'Quest. 8. How must the silver be proceeded with'
'Quest. 9. What fire is used in this work'
f. 4r 'Quest. 10. What do you think of the colours of Bernardus.'
'Quest. 11. Is the labour of this work troublesome'
'Quest. 12. Are there no more lyes of the Sophisters.'
