[Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]

EST . LAPIS . OCVLTVS . SECRETO . FONTE . SEPVLT[VS] . FERMENTVM . VARIAT . LAPIDEM . QVI . COV[ER]TA [lost due to damage] ORAT .

+ YOV . MVST . MAKE . WATER . OF . Ye . ERTHE . AND . ERTHE . OF . Ye . EYERF . AND . EYERE . OF . Ye . FYERE . AND . FYERE . OF . Y . ERTHE .

[starting with the circle by the left foot of the frog and moving to the right] Leuiter cum igne Amicabilé fac [illegibale] [nos] superare non possit [band attaching the circle to the larger inner circle] prima Materia Acalido & humido primo ejc illis sum passus ania debilis sum Et leuiter digestuo amabilis sum ibcu[s] exalta me Agrossioribus Tinztum a Tinzio Exalia sepera & subtillia me vt possum redusi ad simplex Sissio deficio pota me et albifica vidue sumus & adomo propria elongata ideo nobis ipsum redito vtcorpus nos ampleztet et amicabile nobis fiat

[the central circle] Sprite Sowle Boddie Sprite Sowle Boddie Sprite Sowle Boddie

[ring around the bottom of the beaker] The Blacke Sea , The Black Luno, The Black Sea , The Black Sowle

An expounding or the significacion of the seauen seales wheremth the bookes of Phelosophie is closed

James an olde man shyninge & rysinge in brightenes havenige in his hande abooke shull and pealed w[ith] peaven pealed, and beholdinge [the] booke well I pteaved [the] leaves of [the] booke toppe where of was placed a sperit ringt of gola toned w[ith] silver , and in [the]