th]is is a greet p{ri}uytee.

['Scie{n}ce.']

[--To calcine gold.--]

[Cut gold into shavings; put it into a crucible with Mercury;
heat it, and it will crumble into dust like flour. Heat it
more till the mercury goes his way; or distil it, and the gold
powder will be in the crucible.]

The sci{enc}e to brynge gold into calx / Take fyn gold, and
make it into smal lymayl: take a crusible wi[th] a good q{ua}ntitee
of Mercur{ie}, and sette it to a litil fier so [th]{a}t it vapoure 32
not, and putte [th]{er}i{n}ne
[th]i lymail of gold, and stire it weel togidere /

[[* Fol. 15b.]]

& aftirward [*]wi[th]i{n}ne a litil tyme [gh]e schal se al [th]e gold
wi[th]i{n}ne [th]e
M{er}cur{ie} turned into er[th]e as sotil as flour. [th]a{n}ne
[gh]eue it a good fier,
[th]at [th]e M{er}cur{ie} arise and go his wey; or ellis, 36

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and [gh]e wole,
[gh]e may distille and gadere it, puttynge [th]{er}-vpon a
lembike / and in
[th]e corusible [gh]e schal fynde [th]e gold calcyned and

[A thin plate of gold will do instead of shavings, and Silver
may be treated like gold.]

reducid into er[th]e / And if [gh]e wole not make lymayl of gold,
[th]anne make [th]{er}of a sotil
[th]i{n}ne plate, as [gh]e kan, and putte wi[th]i{n}ne 4
[th]e M{er}cur{i}e al warm; and [gh]e schal haue [gh]oure desier / And
in [th]is same maner [gh]e may worche wi[th] siluir / Thanne take [th]e
calx of [th]ese two bodies,
and bere hem openly wi[th] [gh]ou; and [th]{er}

[To carry these powders about, mix them with pitch, wax, or
gum, melting the mass when you want the metal.]

schal noman knowe what [th]ei ben /
And if [gh]e wole bere hem 8
more p{ri}uyly wi[th]oute ony knowynge, [th]anne meynge hem wi[th]
pich melt, or wex, or ellis gu{m}me, for [th]anne noman schal knowe
it what it is. And whanne [gh]e wole dissolue ony of [th]ese calces
by hem silf, putte ei[th]ir
by hi{m} silf in a test, or ellis [th]e pich or 12
[th]e wex in which [th]ei be{n} y{n}ne; and anoon schal come out verry
gold & silu{er} as [th]ei were tofore.

[--How to separate gold from silver when mixed with it.--]

Now I wole teche [gh]ou [th]e maistrie of departynge of gold
fro siluir wha{n}ne
[th]ei be meyngid togidere / F