A breviary of alchemy, or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation being a paraphrastical epitome of his twelve gates / written by Æyrenæus Philalethes. London, Printed for William Cooper, 1678.

A Breviary of ALCHEMY; OR A COMMENTARY UPON Sir GEORGE RIPLEY'S RECAPITULATION: BEING A Paraphraſtical Epitome of his Twelve GATES.

Written by Aeyrenaeus Philalethes ANGLUS, COSMOPOLITA.

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LONDON, Printed for William Cooper at the Pellican in Little Britain. MDCLXXVIII.

Sir George Ripley's RECAPITULATION.

I.

FOr to bring this Treatiſe to a final end;

And briefly here to conclude theſe ſecrets all:

Diligently look thou, and to thy Figure attend,

Which doth in it contain theſe ſecrets great and ſmall:

And if thou it conceive, both Theorical and Practical,

By Figures and Colours, and by Scripture plain,

Which wittily conceived, thou mayeſt not work in vain.

II.

Conſider firſt the Latitude of this precious Stone,

Beginning in the firſt ſide noted in the Weſt,

Where the red Man, and white Woman be made one, Spouſed with the Spirit of life to live in love and reſt:

Earth and water equally proportion'd, that is best;

And one of the Earth is good, and of the Spirit Three,

Which Twelve to Four alſo of the Earth may be.

III.

Three of the Wife, and one of the Man thou muſt take;

And the leſs of the Spirit there is in this Diſponſation,

The rather thy Calcination for certain ſhalt thou make:

Then forth into the North proceed by obſcuration

Of the red man and his white Wife called Eclypſation;

Looſing them, and altering them betwixt Winter and Vere,

Into Water turning Earth, dark, and nothing clear.

IV.

From thence by Colours many one into the Eaſt aſcend,

Then ſhall the Moon be full, appearing by day-light:

Then is ſhe paſſed Purgatory, and her courſe at an end:

There is the up-riſing of the Sun appearing white and bright;

There is Summer after Vere, and Day after Night:

Then Earth and Water which were black, be turned into Air,

And Clouds of darkneſs over-blown, and all appeareth fair.

V.

And as in the Weſt was the beginning of thy practice,

And the North the perfect mean of profound alteration:

So in the Eaſt after them is the beginning of ſpeculation.

But of this courſe up in the South the Sun maketh conſummation.

There be the Elements turned into Fire by Circulation.

Then to win to thy deſire, thou needst not be in doubt,

For the Wheel of our Philoſophy thou hast turn'd about.

VI.

But yet about again 2 times turn thy wheel,

In which be comprehended all the ſecrets of our Philoſophy

In Chapters Twelve, made plain to thee, if thou conceive them well;

And all the ſecrets by and by of our lower Aſtronomy,

How thou ſhalt Calcine Bodies, perfect, diſſolve, divide, and putrifie,

With perfect knowledg of all the Poles which in our Heaven been

Shining with Colours inexplicable, never were gayer ſeen.

VII.

And this one ſecret concluſion know withouten fail,

Our Red Man teyneth not, nor his Wife, until they teyned be;

Therefore if thou liſt thy ſelf by this craft to avail,

The Altitude of the Bodies bide, and ſhew out their profundity,

In every of thy Materials deſtroying the firſt Quality,

And ſecondary Qualities more glorious in them repair anon;

And in one Glaſs, with one Reg'ment Four Natures turn to One.

VIII.

Pale and black with falſe Citrine, unperfect White and Red,

The Peacock's Feathers in Colours gay, the Rainbow, which ſhall over-go

The ſpotted Panther, the Lyon green, the Crow's Bill blew as Lead;

Theſe ſhall appear before the perfect White, and many other moe

Colours; And after the perfect white, gray and falſe Citrine alſo:

And after theſe, then ſhall appear the bloody red invariable;

Then hast thou a Medicine of the third order of his own kind multiplicable.

IX.

Thou muſt divide thy white Elixir into parts Two,

Before thou Rubifie, and into Glaſſes Two let them be done,

If thou wilt have the Elixirs for Sun and Moon, ſo do,

With Mercury then them multiply unto great quantity ſoon:

And if thou hadst not at the beginning enough to ſill a Spoon,

Yet thou mayſt them ſo multiply, both the White, and the Red,

That if thou liv'st a Thouſand Years, they will ſtand thee in stead.

X.

Have thou recourſe unto thy Wheel therefore, I counſel thee,

And ſtudy him well to know in each Chapter truly;

Meddle with no Fantaſtical Multiplyers; but let them be,

Which will thee flatter, and falſly ſay they are cunning in Philoſophy:

Do as I bid thee, then diſſolve thoſe foreſaid Baſes wittily,

And turn them into perfect Oyls with our true Water ardent

By Circulation, that muſt be done according to our intent.

XI.

Theſe Oyls will fix crude Mercury, and convert Bodies all

Into perfect Sol and Lune when thou ſhalt make Projection:

That Oyly Subſtance pure & fixt, Reymond Lully did call

His Baſilisk, of which he never made ſo plain detection:

Pray for me to God, that I may be one of his Election;

And that he will for one of his at Doomsday me ken,

And grant me in his Bliſs to Reign with him for ever,

Amen.

A Breviary of Alchemy; OR A COMMENTARY UPON Sir GEORGE RIPLEYS RECAPITULATION: BEING A Paraphraſtical Epitome of his XII Gates.

Stanza I. Poſition I.

That the Art is moſt certainly true.

WHich wittily conceiv'd, thou mayeſt not Work in vain. Whence obſerve the Truth and Certainty of the Art; ſo Father Hermes, It is true (ſaith he,) without falſhood, certain, and moſt true; That which is above, is like that which is beneath; and that which is beneath, is like that which is above, to bring about the Miracles of one thing. So Treviſan, Flammel, Dionyſ. Zachary, and others, affirm upon their own Experience: And ſo this our Author in his Epiſtle to King Edward; his Concluſion of the Admonition concerning erroneous Experiments, and other places of theſe his Twelve Gates, that I need not enlarge on this Subject.

Stanza II. Poſition II.

Our Work is made of Three Principles.

WHere the Red Man and the White Woman are made one, &c. Thence it is evident, that our Operations are made of Three Principles, yet of one Eſſence; the Red Man, the White Wife, and the Spirit of Life: By the latter, the two former are Eſpouſed or made One. This is that which Treviſan calls his One Root, and Two Mercurial Subſtances, crude at their taking, and extracted out of their Minera's: This our Author elſe-where calls his Trinity and Unity; the Trinity reſpecting the Subſtances as they are ſeverall; the Unity reſpecting their Eſſence, which is intirely Homogenial; Therefore it is added, that they live in love and reſt without repugnancy, which could not be were they not Eſſentially and Radically the ſame; For likeneſs of Nature is the Cauſe of Love, and Oneneſs of Eſſence the true ground of Union; among different Subſtances can only be expected Confuſion, if not Deſtruction.

Poſition III.

Three Subſtances make only Two Natures, Earth and Water.

EArth and Water equally proportion'd, that is beſt. Here it is evident, that theſe Three Subſtances make up but Two Natures of Earth and Water: The Man and Wife are both Bodies or Earths; the one fixed and ripe; the other Volatile and unripe, and by Mixture make a brittle black Hermaphroditical Body or Earth called the Philoſophers Lead, as Ripley in his Preface expreſſeth it. The White Woman, or Female, is otherwiſe called the Moon by all Philoſophers; and by this Author in his Doctrine of Proportions; One of the Sun, and Two of the Moon, till altogether like Pap be done.

Poſition IV.

From equal Pondus of Earth and Water, Three of Water to One of the Earth is good, but equal is beſt.

THen make the Mercury Four to the Sun, Two to the Moon, &c. as it ſhould be in Figure of the Trinity. And ſo we come to take notice of the Doctrine of Proportion between the Earth and Water, equal that is beſt; the ſame ſaith our Author in his Chapter of Calcination. This is the ſureſt and best proportion, ſpeaking of equal Pondus of Earth and Water; and gives the Reaſon, becauſe Solution will be ſooner made, viz.

The more thy Earth, the leſs thy Water be, The ſooner and better Solution ſhalt thou ſee.

And here he affirms the ſame of Calcination, which goes before Solution. Yet Three of the Water to One of the Earth, will do well, leſt the Tincture ſhould not have room to be ſufficiently dilated in the Water, and the Body opened by it; and this is the Pondus of Roger Bacon, which requires a longer time before the quick be kil'd; and by conſequence, the reviving of the dead muſt be longer in doing; For Calcination is nothing elſe, but a killing the moiſt with the dry; till which be done, there is no reviving of the dry by the moiſt, but they have one and the ſame Operation and Period of time; for one dies not, but the other revives: nor doth the Dragon die, but with its Siſter.

Poſition V.

The White Wife in the first Conjunction is to be Three to One of the Red Man.

THree of the Wife, and one of the Man thou take, &c. From the Pondus between the Earth and Water, come we to view the Proportion between the Man and his Wife; Here the Pondus is laid down Three to One, and ſo there are Four parts of Earth to Four of Water, or more, until Twelve; that is, Three of Water to One of the Earth. This alſo is clear from the Chapter of Conjunction, where the Woman is allow'd 15 Veins to 5 of the Man, as to the Act of their Foecundity which is interpreted of the firſt Conjunction by himſelf, that the Man muſt have but 3 of Water, and his Wife 9, which is 12 of Water to 4 of the Earth; by which it is evident, that the Woman is to exceed her Husband in a three-fold Proportion.

Or Two to One after Reymund: Or Four to One according to Alanus; but Three to One is beſt.

However, in Reymind's Doctrine of Proportions cited by our Author in his Gate of Calcination, One of the Sun is joyn'd with Two of the Moon, which make Three of the Body; and to theſe are added Four of Mercury, which is One more of the Spiritual than of the Corporal part; and this the Author compares to Trinity and Unity, both are good; Yea, and Alanus preſcribes Four parts to One, which may be done, but Three to One is beſt and equal Pondus of Spirit and Life, for compleating of the Marriage between this Royal Pair, the Sun the Husband, and the Moon the Wife: Of this ſpeaks this Author in his Gate of Solution; One in Gender they be, but in Number not ſo; The Father is the Sun, and the Moon the Mother, the Mover is Mercury.

This Compound according to its various Conſiderations, hath many Relations, and as many Denominations; Sun and Moon, Man and Wife, Body, Soul and Spirit, Earth and Water, Siſter and Brother, Mother and Son, with many others; but its Proper Name is Magneſia.

Queſt. What is the Red Man? what his White Wife? What the Spirit of Life?

It may be here queſtioned, what this Red Man is? what his White Wife? and what the Spirit of Life? for that is the only knot in underſtanding the Writings of Philoſophers, whoſe various Expreſſions, and ſeeming Contradictions herein, do obſcure the Art wonderfully: Yet however they ſeem to differ in their Writings, they mean all one thing, if well or rightly underſtood.

Anſwer 1ſt. What the Red Man is?

The Red Man betokens the perfect Body of the Sun, or his Shadow the Moon; For Lune the Body, which is one of the Seven, is a Male, and a perfect Body, and fixed, only wants a little Digeſtion; and therefore the Red is hid under its viſible White, as White is hid under the viſible Red of Sol: Therefore our Author in his Work of Albification, ſaith, that the Sun appeareth White and Bright: And Treviſan ſaith, our King, who is cloathed in Garments of pure Gold, after he is once in the Bath, appears no more till after one hundred and thirty days; and then he appears White, and wonderfully bright and ſhining. And an old Philoſopher ſaith, Honour our King at his return from the Eaſt in Glory and admirable bright whiteneſs. Therefore ſaith Artefius, Our Water is of kin to the perfect Bodies, to the Sun, and to the Moon; but more to the Sun then to the Moon; (Note this well.) And in all his Books he joyns the Sun and Moon the perfect Bodies Gold and Silver for the work. So doth Ripley, and ſo all Philoſophers; by which it is evident, that either of the perfect Metals or Luminaries with our Aqua Vitoe, will compleat the work; as Arnold expreſsly ſaith in his Queſtions & Anſwers to Boniface; and Jodocus Creverus in his Treatiſe, confirms the ſame in theſe words; If ſo be (ſaith he) thou be ſo poor that thou canſt not take Gold, then take ſo much Silver; yet Gold is the better, as being nearer of kin to our Water and Mercury.

Anſwer 2. What is the White Wife?

Secondly, The White Wife, otherwiſe called the Moon, is a Female; it is a Coagulated Mercury, but not fixt: A ſpiritual Body, fluxible in nature of a Body, yet Volatile, in nature of a Spirit; It is called therefore Mercury of the Philoſophers; Our Green Lyon; Our immature or unripe Gold: It is Pontanus's Fire, Artephius's middle ſubſtance, clear like pure Silver, which ought to receive the Tinctures of the Sun and Moon, his ſharp Vineger, his Antimonial-Saturnine-Mercurial Argent Vive, without which Laton cannot be whitened; of which an old Philoſopher ſaith, whiten the red Laton, by a white, tepid, and ſuffocated Water; of which teſtimony Treviſanus affirms, that nothing could be ſaid better or clearer. This is that which is intimated in the Viſion of Ariſlaus, who found a People that were Married, yet had no Children, becauſe they married two Males together: Such are they who mix Sol and Lune, both Corporal and fixt together, whom the Spirit will never revive, becauſe there is not conjugal Love. Joyn therefore Gabritius to his beloved Siſter Beya, which is a tender Damſel, and ſtraight-way Gabritius will die; that is, will loſe what he was; and from that place where he appeared to have loſt what he was, he ſhall appear what he was not before.

Anſw. 3. What is the Spirit of Life?

Thirdly, The Spirit of Life is Mercury; The Mover ſaith this Author is Mercury, with which the Stone is to be multiplyed when it is made: And it muſt be true Mineral Mercury, without any forreign mixture, as Arnold reſolves expreſsly in his Anſwer to Boniface: And ſo Ripley ſaith, ſome can multiply Mercury with Saturn, and other ſubſtances, which we defie; Diſtil it therefore till it be clean, &c: It moreover muſt have all the proportions of Mercury its ponderoſity, otherwiſe it could not be Metalline; its Humidity, otherwiſe the Feminine Sperm would be deficient, and its ſiccity, not to wet the hand; which it can no ſooner loſe by Corroſives or otherwiſe; but it ſtraightway loſeth its firſt Mineral Proportion, and ſo is no longer an Ingredient of our true Tincture.

Poſition VI.

As the West Latitude is the entrance, ſo in the North is the firſt alteration.

PRoceed then forth to the North by obſcuration, &c. Looſing them, and altering them, &c. The Materials being found, and mixt according to the Proportions taught before, is called the Weſt Latitude; becauſe in it the Sun ſets, and afterwards appears no more in his Red Robes, till he firſt be cloathed with a White glittering Robe, and be Crowned with a very bright Oriental Diadem. Now the progreſs into the North, is a diſcovery of the Profundity of the Stone, and is compared to the Winter, which is in the North, (chiefly) long, tedious, cold and ſlabbery; ſo will it be in this Work; the Signs are Capricorn, Piſces, and Aquarius; In this there is a retrogradation of Sol into its firſt matter, in which alteration the old Form dies, the Matter rots and putrifies; and is after renewed in the Eaſt.

This Operation (ſaith Flammel) is not perfected in leſs then Five Months; and the Colours of the Compound are dark, obſcure, wateriſh, and at length black like Pitch; in which blackneſs the Body is rotted into Atoms; which intire blackneſs, and height of corruption laſts but 2 or 3 days; and therefore ſaith Ripley in his Epiſtle, the third day he ſhall ariſe; the ſame ſaith Daſtin in his Roſary, where he allows four days for Putrefaction: The ſame ſaith Efferarius the Monk in his intire Treatiſe publiſhed with Daſtin; However, the whole time of blackneſs, in coming, continuing, and going away, is 150 days, although the Sun begins to appear in 130 days, if you work aright. This I have added for the ſake of many who expect black of the blackeſt in 40 or 50 dayes, miſtaking Flammel herein; who ſaith, the colour muſt be black of the blackeſt, and like to the colour of the Dragons in 40 days, which Dragons were blackiſh, blewiſh, and yellowiſh, which colours ſhew that the Matter begins to rot into Atoms; which rottenneſs is not perfected in leſs than 150 days. (ſo as to let the Sun appear with its Rays;) Firſt in a ſmall Circle of Heir of a whitiſh Citrine; which increaſeth, and changeth hue day by day, till whiteneſs be fully compleated.

Poſition VII.

The Eaſt denoting Whiteneſs, is the beginning of the Stones Altitude.

THence by Colours many into the Eaſt aſcend, &c. In the Work are three Dimenſions; Altitude, Latitude, and Profundity: The Altitude is the Perfection of the Bodies which is Inchoate in Whiteneſs, and compleat in Redneſs. The Profundity is the firſt Matter into which they are reſolved; For Multiplication and the Latitude is the means through which it paſſeth from its Perfection to be abaſed; and from its abaſement to its Glorification.

In this paſſage are infinite gay colours like unto thoſe as appeared before Blackneſs, but more glorious; For note, the Stone hath but three colours, Black, White and Red: In the firſt when compleated, it ſtays three, or four days at moſt; in the ſecond as long; in the laſt it repoſeth it ſelf for ever, between theſe Periods as the Matter is moiſter or dryer, purer or impurer, many intermediate colours appear, more then can be numbred; But Two, (viz.) Green and Yellow, are of long continuance, before the White and the Red: But many colours appear between the beginning of that Work, and the firſt colour of Blackneſs: And although ſeveral colours appear, yet are they dark, foggy, and foul coloured; by which it appears, that Blackneſs is the predominant, which for a ſpace will appear like the Aegyptian darkneſs, and is much about the ſame continuance: ſo between Blackneſs and the White, although infinite colours appear; yet the Baſis of them being Whiteneſs, they are bright, and very glorious, which being only tranſient, paſs, and go, and others come in their place, until the White be perfected.

Poſition VIII.

The South or Redneſs is the complement of this Mastery.

OF this courſe in the South the Sun maketh Conſummation. After the White, the Fire being continued, the Compound will become Azure, Gray, and then Citrine, which will laſt a long time; and at laſt end in a bloody Redneſs.

Poſition IX.

He that ſuppoſeth his Work ended when the Stone is brought to its redneſs, is miſtaken.

BUt yet again Two times turn about thy Wheel, &c. The Stone being by conſtant and long Decoction brought to this paſs; he who thinketh the race quite run, reckons without his Hoſt, and muſt reckon again: It is Medicine of the firſt Order, and muſt be brought to the third Order by Imbibitions and Cibation, which is a ſecond turning round the Wheel; and by Fermentation, which is a third turning round the Wheel, and brings the Medicine to the third Order, and makes it then fit for Projection, which at firſt it is not; For till the Medicine will flow like Wax, it cannot enter Mercury before its flight; but the Powder as it is made at firſt, is like Grains or Atoms, and is congealed in a far greater heat, then will make ☿ to fume, yet it abides in its form of Duſt or Powder, which muſt be otherwiſe before it be fitted for Projection; therefore the Stone tingeth Mercury into a Metalline Maſs in the twinkling of an eye, as our Author ſaith in his Preface, even as the Baſilisk kills by ſight: But the Red Sulphur converteth Mercury by a digeſtion of time into its own Nature, (viz.) Powder, if it be joyn'd in a due proportion, and digeſted in a due heat: Therefore ſaith our Author, if you give it too much, it muſt have a Vomit, or it will be ſick too long, but the Stone will never part with any Mercury that is joyned to it in heat; our Sulphur then is a Royal Infant, which doth both hunger and thirſt; and if you can but be a Nurſe to it as you ought, it will repay both your Pains and coſt: Leave not then where you ſhould begin; but go on till you bring it to the third Order, which Reymond calls his Oyls and Unguents; and ſo our Author likewiſe.

Three Properties there are in which the White and Red Sulphurs of the firſt Order, differ from thoſe of the third Order.

One flows as eaſily as any Wax in heat, or on a hot Metal: the other in a ſtrong heat abides a Powder.

The one is like to Glaſs, brittle, ponderous and ſhining; the other a powder like to Atoms.

The one enters Mercury like an Oyl, and Coagulates it in an inſtant: the other drinks up Mercury only, as the Calx of a Metal would do, but will not retain it, if the Fire be increaſed ſtrong, nor turn it into Metal; but if the heat and proportion be both as they ought, by a digeſtion of Time, it turns it into its own Nature: And ſo, (as Ripley ſaith truly,) you may Multiply both White and Red with Mercury; That if at firſt you had not enough to fill a ſpoon, yet in ſhort time you may be ſtored for your whole life, were it ten times as long as it is like to be.

Poſition X.

Our Stone muſt have a Specification to Metals before it will Project.

OUr Red Man teyneth not until he teyned be, &c. Our Red Man or King muſt be teyned by Ferment, before it will tinge imperfect Metals: the Ferments are only Sol and Luna, the Proportion a fourth part to the Compound let the Sulphurs be, and three parts of Sol or Luna according as the Sulphur is: or four parts Sol and Luna, and the Sulphur a fifth part; then with Mercury digeſt and putrifie your Ferment, and congeal it, and again Ferment it, till it flow like Wax or Oyl; then will that Oyl fix Mercury, and turn any Metal into Perfection; which you may then Multiply at your pleaſure, or you may multiply it before Fermentation: Then take the perfect Stone for your Body, and mix him with the White Wife in proportion as at firſt, and add the Spirit of Life, as at firſt, and digeſt it till it paſs the three colours, Black, White, and Red.

Thus doth our Author conclude his Erroneous Experiments alſo: I never ſaw true work but one, ſaith he. One he did, but it was after infinite Errours, and other work no Philoſopher ever yet ſaw, which he briefly deſcribes.

Remember Man the moſt Noble Creature, &c. that is Gold; It is an errour to write it, (Remember that Man is the moſt Noble Creature of Earthly Compoſition;) For Man is not of Earthly Compoſition, but Stones, Metals, and Clays, &c. are. Now becauſe we ſeek the Nobleſt of Creatures of Earthly Compoſition, we muſt be ſo wiſe as to take it for our Principle: For as he ſaith elſe-where; as Fire of burning the Principle is, ſo the Principle of Gilding is Gold I wis. In this nobleſt Creature he ſaith, are the four Elements proportioned by nature, which makes it incombuſtible, for were any predominant, it would not abide; but as Treviſan ſaith, the Anatical proportioning the Elements in a metalline matter, is the very form of Gold: or that rather which gives it its form. He adds a natural Mercuriality, which coſteth right nought; that is a pure, ſincere Mineral Water: without adulteration, not Artificial out of Saturn, Jupiter, &c. But natural not a dear Mercury: but that which is common and cheap. He adds one of his Minera's by Art is brought, that is our green Lyon, for with our firſt Menſtrue, we Calcine only perfect bodies; but none which are unclean, except one, which is uſually call'd by Philoſophers the Lyon-Green, into this the clearneſs of the Sun, or of the Moon, ſecretly deſcends: that is, by this the Mercuriality, or profundity of the Sun and Moon are manifeſted by exuberation, but is hidden from ſight a long time; till after putrefaction, it exuberates and appears openly, bleeding and changing colours, and at firſt being cloathed in a glorious Green: of which ſaith the Roſary, O happy Greenneſs, without which nothing can ſpring? This exuberate-Mercury is our hidden Stone, that is, Potentially, for when that appears; repugnant natures are tyed to Unity, that is our Green-Lyon, or Minera, or vegetable humidity, or Mercuriality natural, which coſteth right naught, or our firſt Menſtrue, and the nobleſt Creature of Earthly compoſition, which is either the Sun, or Moon, but eſpecially the Sun: In each of which the Mercuriality is inviſible, and appears not to ſight; but by effect, that is, in the quality of clearneſs, with Whiteneſs in one, and with redneſs in the other, theſe three being United, the Mercury of the Sun exuberates and appears at firſt green, then is the Eclipſe near, and the Northern progreſs, the proceſs after all this is ſhort; this one thing putrifies, then waſh him in his own broth, till he become White, then Ferment him wiſely; there is the beginning, middle and end. Glory be to God.

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—Upon Sir G. Ripley's Recapitulation. 8o—

Theſe are Printing.

Aeyr. Philalethes his Expoſition upon Sir G. Ripley's Viſion. 8o—
—Upon Sir G. Ripley's Preface. 8o
—Upon Sir G. Ripley's firſt 6 Gates. 8o

FINIS.

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A Breviary of Alchemy. London, 1678. Hermetic Cloud, https://hermeticcloud.com/library/philalethes-breviary-of-alchemy/. Public-domain edition reproduced from the TCP transcription; its gaps and missing figures are marked.

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Text Creation Partnership, TCP A61315, released under CC0 1.0. Reproduction of original in British Library. Unreadable characters, unavailable passages and figures absent from the transcription remain marked.