Entry 1: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 1
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

{Rx} grosse peeces of {sulphur} part 1 & calx vive parts 2 boyl them (continually stirrig) till the {sulphur} be dissolvd; [filter], a vapor ad sicc. add a 20^th part of sal Decrepit. & distill over a red Sp.

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Entry 2: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 2
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

{Rx} 2 parts Clay & one {sal ammoniac} distill & cohobate

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Entry 3: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 3
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

{Rx} {sulphur} (vel florum [eius]) sacch ana [digere] per 10 vel 12 [...] &c

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Entry 4: Editorial notes:

• Note: The last two words of the entry, 'sifted Ashes', are in darker ink
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

[Remember] the fromage [movir] made up with sifted Ashes

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Entry 5: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 5
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

A Colorless stone kept 12 or 18 days, in hot scales of steele (but not red hot) gave it the color of a faire Aigue marine.

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Entry 6: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 6
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43

Ad Carunculas

{Rx} {ounce} ; of pouder'd savine stibium (i.e., crude {copper} {drachm} 2 oare (the yellow) {ounce} 6 all exactly powderd & mix incorpor with yell wax {ounce} ; [res. pini] {drachm} 2

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Entry 7: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43v

F Candela when 'tis to cover a silver pipe cover it with alcool of Bol. arm.

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Entry 8: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43v

[Remember that the] Min Celeste may be kept in Glasse, glaz'd [...]th, & oaken Vessels [(but] New) & is to be kept stopt.

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Entry 9: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43v

[...] with sack & syrup of Elder Flowers

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Entry 10: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43v

[{Rx}] the Inefficacy of Galens Med for mad Dogs, & of viper powder in Ireland

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Entry 11: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 11
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 43v

Tis <often> easyer to know what one ought to beleeve, than what Ar. did beleeve: for Natur. never contrad. hir selfe; but he may in one place contrad. what he teaches in anot: & we can aske Nature /BP 44, fol. 44/ new questions by pre[...] vis'd Experiments; but so w[...]

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Entry 12: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 44

suppose the Nature [...] the medium employd (as if [the] [...] include a Magnet [red hot] in a Box that had Iron or steele,) by &c

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Entry 13: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 44

{Rx} the [Præror] of [...] is [eminent] for a [...] very generally op[...] as heat, [in being] {sal ammoniac} [...] a Dissolvent; &c (answerable to a [...] obstruent, or [...] of [d] Diuretick in Physick

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Entry 14: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 14
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 44

Pollish Silver worke with Putty & Water.

[d] (& Brasse with Tripoly & Water

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Entry 15: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 15
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 44v

[...]avagants [...]ll comparing of Cuntrys.

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Entry 16: Editorial notes:

• Note: The entry is followed by an illegible material in badly faded pencil. Most of the rest of the page is blank.
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 44v

[...]ing of Words by [...]g &c, for fleets

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Entry 17: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 17
• Note: The entry is preceded by illegible notes in pencil, including one on 'Armen[ia]' and one dealing with musk. Similarly the entry is followed by illegible notes in pencil, of which one begins 'The whole world is as', another begins 'These submissions are the', one deals with '14 rows & 26 in one Row' and the the last deals with 'The degree of Coldest condens'
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45

(Remember to send for

• T History of the R Society
• Schott Mechano Hydr
• Pancyrolus

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Entry 18: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 18
• Note: There is an indecipherable note in pencil written above this entry
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

The Divisions of Philosophers are often to be look't on like those of Geographers & Natigations; where Diff. Dominions or Names do not always argue differing Soyls & Waters.

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Entry 19: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 19
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

Remember to apply this to the Stages of N's Progresses

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Entry 20: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 20
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

I exam. not whose such an Op. was but whose it shud be, & [d] it <be true> I conclude it ought to be mine

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Entry 21: Editorial notes:

• Note: The entry is followed by an illegible passage written in faded pencil
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

Who <employ> your Int. or their Fancys <to> chuse their Opinions, & <leave it to> their Understandings, only to Maintain them.

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Entry 22: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 22
• Note: The entry is preceded by an illegible passage written in faded pencil
• Note: The page on which this entry appears is crossed through
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

Remember the Concentrat. of Beams in the Præface to the II Tome.

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Entry 23: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 23
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 45v

Remember that in hot Regions by the Ordinary Concours of the Air & Sun oft Eggs are hatch'd <in to Birds>

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Entry 24: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 46

Ol. Ess. I. 6 {ounce} tru Ess. Ol. [...] 4 {ounce} of Succ. 6 {ounce} incorp. these with 4 {ounce} of tafafa in a morter. Then ad {ounce} 8 of the pure volatil Sp. {sal ammoniac} true Vol. tafafa {ounce} 7. 20 ounces of the pure V. Sp. {urine} & {ounce} 8 of the common[?] sp. of Terp & 2 Gall. of {spirit of wine} [easier]. Draw these all over the helm once. <from {salt} of Potashes> This multip. by Destill. from common oyle.

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Entry 25: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 25
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 46

The Creation. The Flood. The oyl ponderous as {gold}. The liq. ascending & in the Air made Astral, falling againe. Moses's Manna & the Tal & sweet unctuosity imbibd out of it. The little man that went out before 7. The heated Arme. The Chaotic Net as a Recipient. The water reaching to saffron, niter, &c & the Masse the [7] among them {mercury}. the {salt} urinae. Common [{mercury}] an abortive. Columb. Dian & {copper}. That the experiment. may be made (but in much longer time, & with more Ch. & Diff. with [parc] alone./ The Chaotic, Salvatory & Rationall unknown abbreviation & 88 at the top of the last of the 20 unknown abbreviation before multipl. 9. for the menstruum/ half a coccos, [d] kindled & almost killd him./ The separable earth of Paz./ The internal Magn./ Irene /BP 44, fol.46v/ The specific for [d] {lead}./ The sh. oyl. Liquid & coagulated./ The Baracle & paz with the Ferm. or {tincture} will make a min. perp

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Entry 26: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 26
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

(The common Sapo requires a Gallon of {spirit of wine} unknown abbreviation to 8 {ounce} of it)

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Entry 27: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 27
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

Later marginal endorsements:

• Endorsement: q

[d] Remember that Anarus (or Aranus) is the matter of the Bombast./ & needs no addition. (unlesse perhaps at last & tis an oyl or oleiforme.

yet if this oyl be united with ana of the Bomb. of Tart. & that of {nitre} they will all come over toget. into one menstruum.

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Entry 28: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 28
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

With out Essential Saponary menstruum one may draw a true <{gold}> pot. [d] the Scor. made by injected {nitre} [d] upon a Reg. made of 2 parts Reg {antimony} simpl. & one of {gold}

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Entry 29: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 29
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

The menstruum [or {mercury}] soph. draws out of paz about a ¼ part of {tincture} or oyl; which being fixt upon a due prop of {gold} [q. an commune] goes one up. 10 & that with more liq. 1 up 100 & so &.

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Entry 30: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 30
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

Bomb. may be multipl. by the Essential oil itself draws from Talk.)

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Entry 31: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 31
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol.46v

[d] Keep our Melago stiring till it be pulverable with it's own [Phl.] extract the Chrystals make a sapo of them (a little opend by a slit calcin.) [d] with ol. Ess. [d] Junip. & by cohob. unite & bring this over with <most> high Rectif. Sp. of {urine}

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Entry 32: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 32
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Aug. 15^th. The matter of the unknown abbreviation is the unct. part of Talc but that of unknown abbreviation is [incoroi]

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Entry 33: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 33
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

The Eben will relent <much> in the Air

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Entry 34: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 34
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Our Sp. V. is ex tale & is really unct. or oleag. & will swim on water

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Entry 35: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 35
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Each Eg is a Separ. Elem. (viz {earth} and {water}) but made without Destillat.

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Entry 36: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 36
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

The Magnet draws 4 or 5 pints in a day

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Entry 37: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 37
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Tasafa, (especially by the help of the magnet) is putrifyd; then subslimd into dry salt (in 2 months, but <to gaine the> forma liquida; it requires 5 months more.

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Entry 38: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 38
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Later marginal endorsements:

• Endorsement: 15
• Endrosement [at 'the other 3']: q

From {ounce} 1 of Paz draw {drachm} 2 of {tincture} reduce the rest into neg. imbibe gradatim {drachm} 1 till you have united it with [d] 9 drams of neg. then put the other 3 & [d] unite that 18 times the neg. may exceed the {tincture}. This poud will [d] upon com. paz make an Eb. which (once or 2 invigorated) will upon co neg. make a Min. Perp.

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Entry 39: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 39
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

By an Eg.'s reaching {lead} & is meant that it radically dissolves it into a Liq. distinct from the menstruum. [An] or after the 6 or 7^th eg. it reaches paz & all other such bodys.

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Entry 40: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 40
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Bbt multipl. it self from somthing it extracts from the bodys it works on.

Tis best preservd by immersed sol. As the unknown abbreviation is, by being diluted with it's owne liquid parent.

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Entry 41: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 41
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

Paz hath in it a separable {earth}

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Entry 42: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 42
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47

A menstruum (short of the 3 noblest) wil so only reduce {mercury} sub. as also Ars. [d] into sweet, & innoc., & efficac. oils.

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Entry 43: Editorial notes:

• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47v

Reductif. {Rx} ban. {ounce} 5, salis decr. {ounce} 3. M. F. P. si opus, adiice Ars. {drachm} 5; &, (si prac.) carb. partem duum [resp] totius. [Linus] mist. partes 2, corp. reduce partem unam

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Entry 44: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 44
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 47v

{Rx} {tin} parts 8, {mercury} part 1

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Entry 45: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 45
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 48

Remember Workmanship. Self-enjoyment. Improvident. Pusillan. take it to be answer indistinctly [d] Counterpoyson:

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Entry 46: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 46
• Note: The square brackets surrounding 'Atomology' are author's own
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 48

Inadæquate negative Conceptions. Take hold of, but not Graspe: Dress of Matter. Use or Wisd. [undisce] vera for being Too curious. Perform. our Underst. cannot reach to the maner. of Subserv. to the Person, & the End. Unconceiv. Excellency. Superemint. Knol. Unconceivable Perf: Architectonic wisdom. subservient - as to - &c. exprehensive Faculty - so many steps by which the mind ascends from the View Directive - contracted Nature & Intellect: concernd in the Fabric. Fermentative Agitat: & consequently, Collision: Mask's of Matters. Analyticall Putref. or Fermentatio. Incongr. to it self: energetic particles. Congenealness intrinsic Ferments. then to pass on, to what tis high time to prceed to release the fetterd or impr. part Heroisme Prejudicacy. feeble reason [stretgret] or smal of signific./ Chance, or [d] unguided Mot. of Matter [Atomology] Impenetrable Extension./ to Physiologize Anticipation./ Cogitative Beings,/ Materialists,/ Corporealists. Directives Principle/ Fortuitous Mechanisme / Histrionicall &c/ Philos. or Philosophizing Engine.

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Entry 47: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 47
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 48v

Aurorian, or Corpuscular Philosophy & Probationary Hypoth. Notions, Rules &c.

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Entry 48: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 48
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 48v

Dissolve the frame is not Presumable. Permananency in a separate state & the person he sustains & the tenor of his Doctrine.

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Entry 49: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 49
• Note: Fol. 49 is an octavo sheet, like the other pages in this work-diary, folded in half and with entries are written on both side of the fold. In addition, the entries in each fold of the page are written in opposite senses -- that is, the top of the writing direction in the left-hand fold is the bottom of the writing sense of the right-hand fold, and vice-versa. The entries in the left-hand fold are written in very light pencil which has rendered themlargely illegible. The transcription below of the first few lines must remain uncertain. These lines are followed by 4-5 lines which are largely illegible but in which the words and symbols, 'sal volat. of oils', '{tartar}', '{silver}', 'ens {copper}is' and 'glass' can be discerned.
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 49

1) [qo] {tincture} of [Can[???]]
2) [...] of things to be seald up
3) The [...] of [dry sol]
4) The use of Sol. {gold}
5) The making of {salt} {antimony}
Remember Subl. & C V
fetid ol. {tartar}

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Entry 50: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 50
• Note: Above this entry, and starting the righ-hand fold of the page, are some mathematical calculations, written in very light pencil, which cannot be deciphered
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 49

{Rx} 2 {pound} of Aloes in powder, to one of the berrys of Miss. of w. thorne; or apple or peare. Sun them or saltem keep them for 4, 5, or 6 in F Pils of [then] to a dr. [glue] over night

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Entry 51: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 51
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 49

The [d] Syr. is mad of ana of berrys of Miss & sugar left without fire to ferment.

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Entry 52: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 52
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 49

{Rx} Fresh spearewort, beaten or, the Dry with a little strongth.

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Entry 53: Editorial notes:

• Editorial number: 53
• Note: The following page, fol. 49v, consists of illegible recipes written in very faint pencil which have defied all attempts atdecipherment
• Hand: Boyle
• Date: late 1660s
• Boyle Papers reference: BP 44, fol. 49

Abstract {spirit of wine} rect. (but not At Cohob:) 4 or 5 times from good C. V. with a Str. Fire at lest.

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