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[England], 1777. Collection of recipes (numbered 1-253 with many errors) for alchemical and practical applications such as making candles, butter, varnish, many types of ink (including a recipe for "magic ink", p. 201), sealant for waterproofing shoes (p. 15), cement for mending broken china or glass (p. 205), and occasional medicinal uses such as preventing yellow fever (p. 158). Alchemical recipes include instructions for turning white sapphires into diamonds (p. 208), creating artificial diamonds (p. 193) and artificial pearls (p. 206), creating a powder that burns green (p. 160), and how to give new colors (p. 85) or new fragrances (p. 87) to flowers. Other instructions include a method for preserving animals such as dogs and horses at the size they were at birth (p. 183), purifying water (p. 15), sending secret letters written on the inside of an egg (p. 185-186), how to wash fleecy hosiery (p. 191), and predicting whether a sick person will live or die (p. 135). A printed clipping for how to grow radishes has been pasted in (p. 118) and a print of a plan for a smelting furnace has been laid into the manuscript. Also includes an alphabetical index (p. v-xxviii) and 7 leaves laid into the manuscript with additional recipes such as a remedy for scurvy and a recipe for iron gall ink. One leaf written in French for a recipe for magic ink (Gibraltar, 15 May 1795).

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202 Use When you use this Liquor have a small Phial of [alchemy symbol] of Lead, which you write with upon Paper; or a Wall. or the Boards - the 2 last with a Hair Pencil Pass it over with the Liquor with Cotton. & the letters [?] appear. This is the [?] [?] Ink.

245 To make [alchemy symbol:gold] from [a.s.:lead] Rx of Cyprean Calcanthum [a.s:measurement?] [a.s.:dissolve] it Spring Water [a.s.:measurement?].filtre & [a.s.:?] by [a.s.] Preserve the [a.s.] [a.s.:water] well closed for use - [?] an [?] with [a.s.:mercury] [a.s.:measurement] & pure [a.s.:gold] in Leaf [a.s.:measurement] over the [a.s.:fire] [?] Then Rx of purified [a.s.:lead] [a.s.:measurement] when melted mix it well with the above a.a.a. over the [a.s.:fire] when well mixd add

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[Use above?] [?] with ℔ [pound] ℥j (1 ounce), when cool, you will have the best [time?]. See page 148. To [?] the [h?]. See P.132, which is exactly the same as the above [?] 246. another for the same Take of purified [h lly?] -* powdered ℥j (1 ounce) [?] & [3 iij (3)] [of] powdered ℥s [half ounce]. Put these with a [?] over a [short?] [?], for 8ÿ. Take off the [?]. & you will have [more] time. 247. To prepare the Sal Elebrot R, [?] purified. Sal Gum. Sal Aleoli or [?] aa ℥i (1 ounce) pulverize & add Guice of Mint & of [?] aa ℥jj (2 ounce) [after fan?] [?] - Mix well NB. The 3 last were given me by the D of M * from Abb + Percy. Aug: 1800

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248. A Work finished at London 1784 by a Person in Ivy Gardens, which succeded + produced a fine {C Lear}

To make Rosetta Copper. Upon [symbol] gr bo of each Salt. which? make 240 gr. to make the yellow Powder, v [symbol] of white Zink

For [symbol] neither Red or Yellow

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They (unillegible) for rene live (unillegible) 250 Cement for broken A Virginia Want Pi Terr Martech Pi cement did Letter to Juckville (Unillegible) Hu chan cul U ohio Peeve and (Unillegible) (Unillegible)

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251 To make Pearl red Leuberry Put the whicker feed Pearl you can get into a Glop XX. repour them

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