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Ramon Llull (c. 1232 - c. 1315/16)

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Sir Robert Paston to Dr. Browne [Bodleian MS Rawlinson CCCXCI] Parson's Greene, the 19th of September, [1662.] Worthy Sir,

You may justly wonder my pen has beene soe long a stranger to you, though, through manie removes, I could never till now com att my meddalls. All I have of the Brittish and Saxon I have this day sent you in a box, by the Norwich coachman, which I hope will be with you this night, with a large one of Heraclius, and some copper ones, which I hope are good. The manuscript of Dunstan and Beniamin Lock, I find verbatim in print, but nott the coronatio naturæ, though I have the same figures in another manuscript, without explication uppon them.

This ring with the head of Vespasian, which I esteeme verie good, I desire your finger may honor, I having wome itt on my owne, as the best I could find of that kind. Sir, I desire the favor of you, by the returne of the coachman, to send me your two manuscripts of Mayerne, there beeing somthing in one of them which I immediatelie intend to putt in execution.

My wife has the ill fortune to be attacqued with a quartan ague, which is soe much the worse, she beeing within two months of her time.

My humble service to your ladie and my cousin Le Gross, and, sir, if you have anie notion that you please to communicate, in order to the old affaire I discoursed to you att Norwich, I shall hope to give you an accompt of itt in som short time; for I have delayed my self in vainelie endeavouring to fix a volatile spiritt on itts fixed salt; when I am master of the way, bringing the fixed part over in a volatile water, which, after circulation, I hope will performe the promises of Raymund Lullie. Your good hints may be a meanes to aduance my design which will oblidge,

Sir, your verie humble servant, Robert Paston.
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A manuscript containing these tracts: 1. Take earth of earth earths mother with some explication. 2. A short worke and true-of halfe a sheet. 3. Cantilena Ripley, de L. Phil. seu de phœnice. 4. Verbum abbreviatum Rogeri Bacon a Rajmundo Galfrido explicatum-above a sheet. 5. The great worke or great Elixir of Ripley ad Solem et Lunam, with an accurtation or shortning of the great work-containing 2 sheets. 6. A Letter of Ripley, sent to a friend, subscribed by George Ripley, ch. of Bridlington, farmer and curate of F...balbergh. 7. The easiest way in practising the Philosopher's stone a sheet and half. 8. Philossium and medulla, translated out of Latin by George Higins. 9. A Concordance of the Sayings of Guido and Raymund. X. The worke of Dickinson-about a hundred verses. An ancient manuscript of Nortons ordinall. Dunstanus Epus Cantuariensis de Lapide philos-a small manuscript. Theriaca divina Benedicti MS. Lat. Anonym. A Manuscript entitled Investigation of causes, writt by a person of these parts about 50 yeares agoe. A theoreticall 3 This is MS. Sloan. 1842.-Catalogue of Sir Thomas Browne's MSS. No. 6, 4to. vol. iv, 463, &c. 4 Very illegible in MS. On reference to the MS. Sloan. 1842, I find it is thus: "Fox Bulburg Churche. 1460 vel 1476. 5 MS Sloan. 1873.-Catalogue of Browne' MSS. No. 39, 4to. vol. iv, p. 463, &c. 6 This may be MS. Sloan. No. 3757, fol. 40; or No. 1255, art. 2, fol. 12C:- probably the latter. 7 MS. Sloan. l857.-Catalogue of Browne's MSS. No. 18, 4to. vol. iv, p. 463, &c. 1674.] MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. 465 piece, but relating to the Herm. philosophic and worke. An originall, and I thinck there is noe coppy of it- about 4 sheets. Ripleys emblematicall or hieroglyphicall scrowle in parchment, about 7 yards long, with many verses, somewhat differing from those in your first part next Ripleys vision. Two small pieces of Garlandus Anglus, Latin and printed. Dastini Speculum philosoph. MS. Lat. Benjamin Locks picklock unto Ripleys castle, prose and verse -about 4 or 5 sheets, MS. To my worthy and honord freind, Elias Ashmole, Esqr. in the Middle Temple, these, London. (The above direction is on the back of the latter, (ff. 153, 156,) within which is enclosed a half sheet folded in quarto,(ff. 154-5, containing the list of MSS. Close to the direction is preserved a small seal of arms, impressed in red wax.)