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• Fols. 1-37 (37 leaves): Response to atheist arguments, especially Epicurean atomism.
• Fols. 38-44 (7 leaves): MS version of part of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 45-7 (3 leaves): MS version of part of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 48-57 (10 leaves): MS version of parts of Reason and Religion and Christ. Virt., I, Appendix.
• Fols. 58-65 (8 leaves): Various arguments against atheists and in favour of God's existence.
• Fols. 66-71 (6 leaves): MS version of conclusion of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 72-5 (3 leaves): MS version of part of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 76-7 (2 leaves): Cover sheet and list of contents for 'the little Tract about Atheism'.
• Fols. 78-92 (15 leaves): Erroneous doctrine and atheists' mistakes as impediments to belief.
• Fols. 93-7 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 98-9 (2 leaves): Section of text and cover sheet.
• Fols. 100-10 (11 leaves): Reply to argument that incorporeal things cannot effect corporeal ones, also commenting on mistakes and personal failings of atheists.
• Fols. 111-27 (18 leaves): MS version of part of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 128-38 (11 leaves): MS version of parts of Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 139-40 (2 leaves): Adviseability of attending to future state.
• Fols. 141-2 (2 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Fols. 143-51 (9 leaves): 'Notes belonging to the Causes of Atheisme'.
• Fols. 152-85 (34 leaves): Protestant polemic against Catholic practices.
• Fol. 186 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 5, part 1].
• Fols. 187-9 (3 leaves): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
• Fol. 190 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 191-8 (8 leaves): 'Introductio ad soluta theologica nostra Adversaria', 'Introduction to my Loose Notes Theological'.
• Fols. 199-202 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., I.

• Fols. 1-12 (12 leaves): Sections of text relating to essay on experience, reason and authority, and ancillary items.
• Fols. 13-16 (4 leaves): Parts of the 'Essay of the Discernment of Suppositions'.
• Fols. 17-18 (2 leaves): Further material relating to essay on experience, reason and authority.
• Fols. 19-21 (3 leaves): Prescriptions for the organization of science, etc.
• Fol. 22 (1 leaf): List of things to remember.
• Fols. 23-4 (2 leaves): Prefatory statements relating to 'Observations about the Use of Reason in Natural Philosophy'.
• Fol. 25 (1 leaf): Propositions on sense, reason and authority.
• Fols. 26-9 (4 leaves): Sections of text, mainly prefatory material to various works.
• Fols. 30-4 (5 leaves): Material intended for 'The Uses and Extent of Experience, Reason and authority in Natural Philosophy'.
• Fols. 35-41 (7 leaves): Material relating to appendix to Final Causes, interspersed by section of text on use of experiment (fols. 38-9).
• Fol. 42 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., I, Appendix.
• Fols. 43-4 (2 leaves): 'A Fragment of the Aspiring Naturalist: A Philosophicall Romance'.
• Fols. 45-8 (4 leaves): Prefatory material to 'Paralipomena'.
• Fols. 49-60 (12 leaves): Miscellaneous papers, including sections of text relating to imperfections of natural history, use of experiments, etc., and lists of 'Probatory' and 'Exploratory' Experiments (fol. 52).
• Fol. 61 (1 leaf): Material relating to Usefulness.
• Fols. 62-75 (14 leaves): Further material relating to the use of reason and experience in natural philosophy, interspersed by miscellaneous papers, including 'Advertisement' to 'Cogitationes Physicæ' (fol. 68).
• Fols. 76-7 (2 leaves): MS version of preface to General History of Air.
• Fol. 78 (1 leaf): Note on experiment concerning water from a 'martial spring'.
• Fol. 79 (1 leaf): Preface to work on magnetism of earth.
• Fol. 80 (1 leaf): List of 'Experiments about Qualitys'.
• Fols. 81-2 (2 leaves): 'A description of the true Thermometer'.
• Fols. 83-91 (9 leaves): Miscellaneous sections of text and lists.
• Fols. 92-5 (4 leaves): Copies of papers surviving elsewhere in volume.
• Fols. 96-128 (17 leaves): Further material relating to the use of reason and experience in natural philosophy, including pasted up slips, and interspersed by miscellaneous papers.
• Fol. 129 (1 leaf): Material relating to appendix to Final Causes.
• Fols. 130-61 (32 leaves): Incomplete Latin theological essay.
• Fols. 162-3 (2 leaves): Part of unpublished 'Essay XIII' of Usefulness.
• Fols. 164-5 (2 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Exp & Obs Physicae.
• Fols. 166-70 (5 leaves): 'Relationes Physicae continued' [Workdiary 32].
• Fols. 171-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Mechanical Qualities.
• Fols. 173-4 (2 leaves): Fragment of the MS of Henry Oldenburg's published Latin translation (1676) of `New Experiments about the Preservation of Bodies in Vacuo Boyliano' (Hidden Qualities).
• Fols. 175-7 (3 leaves): Fragment of Henry Oldenburg's published Latin translation (1676) of `Causes of Attraction by Suction' (Hidden Qualities).
• Fols. 178-80 (3 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Medicina Hydrostatica.
• Fols. 181-2 (2 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Exp. et Obs. Physicae.
• Fol. 183 (1 leaf): Latin translation of experiment on the loadstone, related to ch. 1 of Exp. et Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 184-90 (7 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of most of preface to Reason and Religion.
• Fols. 191-204 (14 leaves): MS version of `Essay of the Porousness of Solid Bodies', Porosity, chapter VIII.
• Fols. 205-10 (6 leaves): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fols. 211-18 (8 leaves): Fragment of 'Dialogue on Heat and Flame'.
• Fols. 219-22 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fols. 223-52 (30 leaves): Letter in Italian from Lorenzo Magalotti to Boyle.

• Fol. 1 (1 leaf): Material relating to 'Superficial Figures of Fluids' (Phil. Trans., 1676).
• Fols. 2-3 (2 leaves): Latin mathematical extract, evidently from Wallis.
• Fol. 4 (1 leaf): 'Materials for the Inquiring what the Soul of a Brute may be' (pencil).
• Fol. 5 (1 leaf): Headings for experiments with volatile salts.
• Fol. 6 (1 leaf): 'Memoirs for the Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 7 (1 leaf): Fragment of original version of Usefulness.
• Fols. 8-9 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fol. 10 (1 leaf): Fragment of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
• Fol. 11 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., II.
• Fol. 12 (1 leaf): Fragment from MS version of `Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes' Problemata de Vacuo' (Hidden Qualities).
• Fol. 13 (1 leaf): Material relating to Effluviums.
• Fol. 14 (1 leaf): Material relating to Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fol. 15 (1 leaf): Material relating to 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
• Fol. 16 (1 leaf): Fragment from MS version of `Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes' Problemata de Vacuo' (Hidden Qualities).
• Fols. 17-18 (2 leaves): Fragment of original version of Usefulness.
• Fols. 19-20 (2 leaves): Section of text from 'The Requisites of a Good Hypothesis'.
• Fol. 21 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 30, part 1].
• Fol. 22 (1 leaf): Series of passages concerning physical phenomena and theological reflections.
• Fol. 23 (1 leaf): Experiments on gold.
• Fol. 24 (1 leaf): Fragment of an unpublished part of Usefulness.
• Fol. 24X (1 leaf): List of particulars of precious stones.
• Fol. 25 (1 leaf): 'Materials for the Inquiring what the Soul of a Brute may be' (pencil).
• Fol. 26 (1 leaf): Material relating to appendix to Final Causes.
• Fol. 26X (1 leaf): Note to 'Cogitationes Physicae'.
• Fols. 27-8 (2 leaves): Part of introduction to unpublished `Essay XIII' of Usefulness.
• Fols. 29-31 (3 leaves): Section of text on sensation and sensible qualities.
• Fol. 32 (1 leaf): Unpublished paragraph concerning a MS 'about those rich and noble Gems, that grow in countrys very remote from ours', written after 'the foregoing Pentades' and obtained from 'the worthy Deputy Governor of the East India Company Mr T[avernier].'
• Fols. 33-4 (2 leaves): Fragment of unpublished Latin translation of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
• Fol. 35 (1 leaf): Fragment of text of 'Of Subterraneal Steames As they are capable of affecting the Aire'.
• Fol. 36 (1 leaf): Passage on nature of propositions.
• Fol. 37 (1 leaf): `Tituli Ad Naturalem Atque Experimentalem Aeris Historiam', Latin titles for General History of Air.
• Fols. 38-40 (3 leaves): Text concerning Boyle's views on occasionalism.
• Fol. 41 (1 leaf): Memoranda concerning various natural phenomena and philosophical and theological topics.
• Fols. 42-6 (5 leaves): MS version of parts of section I Final Causes.
• Fols. 47-8 (2 leaves): Notes on Seneca on the senses, with list of miscellaneous phenomena relating to sensation on fol. 48v.
• Fol. 49 (1 leaf): Series of questions on metals and ores.
• Fols. 50-1 (2 leaves): Mathematical equations and notes.
• Fols. 52-5 (4 leaves): Unpublished experiment, showing the sympathetic vibration of guitar strings.
• Fol. 56 (1 leaf): Extract from Agostino Scilla, La Vana Speculazione Disingannata dal Senso (Naples, 1670).
• Fol. 57 (1 leaf): List of magnetical experiments.
• Fol. 58 (1 leaf): Notes on rigidity and elasticity.
• Fol. 59 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., II and another section of text.
• Fols. 60-1 (2 leaves): (1) MS version of part of Christ. Virt., I, Appendix, and (2) passages concerning admiration and understanding of God and his works; the correct use of words 'inconceivable' and 'incomprehensible'; and other topics.
• Fol. 62 (1 leaf): Fragment of 'Dialogue concerning Heat and Flame'.
• Fols. 63-4 (2 leaves): Fragment of the original version of Usefulness.
• Fols. 65-6 (2 leaves): Extract from Wallis' Opera Mathematica.
• Fols. 67-8 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Effluviums.
• Fols. 69-70 (2 leaves): Experiments concerning 'klander' worm (imperfect).
• Fol. 71 (1 leaf): Notes on the nature of our suppositions.
• Fol. 72 (1 leaf): Phenomena to be remembered.
• Fol. 73 (1 leaf): Latin translation of part of experimental treatise.
• Fol. 74 (1 leaf): List of new experiments to be done in vacuo.
• Fol. 75 (1 leaf): Draft of part of chemical treatise.
• Fols. 76-7 (2 leaves): List of phenomena to illustrate points in a treatise.
• Fol. 77X (1 leaf): Notes on measurement of weights.
• Fol. 78 (1 leaf): Unpublished observations on underwater plants.
• Fol. 79 (1 leaf): Material relating to Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fols. 80v-81 (1 leaf): Notes on mixture and its implication for explanation of qualities.
• Fols. 82-5 (4 leaves): `Notes on the Essay concerning Saltpetir'.
• Fol. 86 (1 leaf): Notes on traction.
• Fols. 87-8 (2 leaves): 'Heads of the Discourse of the Pores of Bodys & figures of Corpuscles'.
• Fol. 89v (1 leaf): MS version of the 21 titles for Cold.
• Fols. 90-2 (3 leaves): Title and introductory section from unpublished `Essay the XI' of Usefulness etc.
• Fol. 93 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fol. 94 (1 leaf): Contents of the (as yet) unpublished parts of Usefulness.
• Fol. 95 (1 leaf): Superceded version of part of Medicina Hydrostatica.
• Fol. 96 (1 leaf): Introductory note to book.
• Fol. 97 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Ex. & Obs. Physicae.
• Fol. 98 (1 leaf): MS version of complaint about plagiarism by foreign writers, esp. in Germany and Italy.
• Fol. 99 (1 leaf): Note to 'Cogitationes Physicae'.
• Fol. 100 (1 leaf): Light: reconcileability of Epicurean and Cartesian theories.
• Fol. 101 (1 leaf): MS version of Advertisement to 'Strange Reports' in Exp. et Obs. Physicae.
• Fol. 102 (1 leaf): Phenomena to remember, and references.
• Fols. 103-6 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fol. 107 (1 leaf): `That Divers Occult Qualities may be Mechanically Produced', unpublished introductory paragraph, perhaps from an essay once intended for inclusion in Mechanical Qualities.
• Fols. 108-9 (2 leaves):`Avertissemt. de Mr. Boyle Sur la perte qu'il a fait de plusieurs de ses Ecrits...'
• Fols. 110-11 (2 leaves): Notes on phenomena associated with baroscope and their implications.
• Fol. 112 (1 leaf): List of experiments and phenomena to discuss in an unspecified treatise, some of which are included in Effluviums.
• Fols. 113-14 (2 leaves): List of titles of various works by Boyle, with numbered references to them.
• Fol. 115 (1 leaf): Sentence concerning production of bodies.
• Fol. 116 (1 leaf): Robert Hooke's comments on an MS version of Final Causes.
• Fol. 117 (1 leaf): Text concerning saltness of sea.
• Fol. 118 (1 leaf): List of `Experiments to be made in seald R[eceiver]'.
• Fols. 119-20 (2 leaves): Part of tract about flame.
• Fols. 121-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Fols. 123-6 (4 leaves): Latin treatise attacking van Helmont in favour of Paracelsus.
• Fol. 127 (1 leaf): Topics concerning mutual benefit of experimental and speculative philosophy, etc.
• Fol. 127X (1 leaf): Passages concerning types of experience.
• Fol. 128 (1 leaf): Material relating to Usefulness.
• Fol. 129 (1 leaf): Experiment concerning effect of salt and snow on oil in pipe.
• Fol. 130 (1 leaf): Damaged note on experiment by 'Dr Faustus'.
• Fol. 130X (1 leaf): Record of results of experiment.
• Fol. 131 (1 leaf): Problems of reusing others' experiments.
• Fol. 132 (1 leaf): Observations and queries concerning springiness of bodies.
• Fols. 133-4 (2 leaves): `The History of Tast[e]s as they belong to the Object that is said to be endowed therewith'.
• Fols. 135v -6 (1 leaf): `The History of Odors as they belong to the Object that is said to be endowed therewith'.
• Fol. 137 (1 leaf): Part of discourse addressed to Pyrophilus on artificial bodies.
• Fol. 138 (1 leaf): Note explaining lack of order in ensuing experiments.
• Fol. 139 (1 leaf): Experiment with plants growing without air.
• Fols. 140-1 (2 leaves): Introduction to `Essay the VII' of Usefulness.
• Fols. 142-3 (2 leaves): Material relating to Mechanical Qualities.
• Fol. 144 (1 leaf): Note on luminosity of bodies.
• Fol. 145 (1 leaf): Experiment on texture of camphire.
• Fol. 146 (1 leaf): Notes on eyes and teeth of fish/crabs.
• Fol. 147 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Mineral Waters.
• Fol. 148 (1 leaf): 'Problemata Usus Septimae Tabulae'.
• Fol. 149 (1 leaf): Suppositions: why men overlook them.
• Fols. 150 (1 leaf): Material relating to Christ. Virt., I, Appendix.
• Fols. 151-2 (2 leaves): Experiments with oily liquors, etc.
• Fols. 153-4 (2 leaves): Material relating to Spring of the Air.
• Fols. 155-6 (2 leaves): MS version of experiment III of `New Experiments about Explosions' (Flame and Air).
• Fols. 157-8 (2 leaves): MS version of parts of Cold.
• Fols. 159-60 (2 leaves):MS version of part of Degradation of Gold.
• Fol. 161 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Final Causes.
• Fol. 162 (1 leaf): MS version of parts of Icy Noctiluca.
• Fol. 163 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fol. 164 (1 leaf): Fragment of 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Fol. 165 (1 leaf): Part of dialogue concerning planetary intelligences and divine beings in heaven.
• Fol. 166 (1 leaf): False suppositions, and phenomena which more significant than realised (headings).
• Fol. 167 (1 leaf): Material relating to appendix to Final Causes.
• Fol. 168 (1 leaf): Preliminary note to treatise.
• Fol. 169 (1 leaf): MS material relating to General History of Air.

• Fols. 1-36 (36 leaves): `Medica Praescripta Communicata R.B.'
• Fols. 37-8 (2 leaves): Three medicines for eyesight, one 'A Medicine for clearing of the eye-sight found out by Dr. Purlow Sometime Bishop of Hull and Suffragan of York who at the age of 125 years was able to read any Print without Spectacles which att the age of 50 he could not do'.
• Fol. 39 (1 leaf): Paper concerning worm voided by child.
• Fol. 40 (1 leaf): Section of text concerning reception of doctrine of circulation of blood.
• Fols. 41-2 (2 leaves): Miscellaneous recipes, medical memoranda, etc.
• Fols. 43-5 (3 leaves): Notes on accounts of the transmutation of metals.
• Fols. 46-50 (5 leaves): Miscellaneous recipes, together with fragment of appendix to Final Causes.
• Fols. 51-9 (5 leaves): Letter from unknown correspondent in Bordeaux giving account of local sorcery case involving a lady called Segur.
• Fol. 60 (1 leaf): 'Some Notable Parnasian Observations'.
• Fols. 61-2 (2 leaves): Note on strange phenomena of vitiated sight.
• Fol. 63 (1 leaf): Notes on how the human body is like an engine.
• Fol. 64 (1 leaf): Extract from Fabricius on dropsy.
• Fols. 65-6 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Colours.
• Fol. 67 (1 leaf): Medicinal recipe.
• Fols. 68-70 (3 leaves): MS version of parts of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Fols. 71-4 (4 leaves): MS versions of two sections of text of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fols. 75-107 (33 leaves): MS version of Usefulness, sect. 1.
• Fols. 108-11 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Fols. 112-13 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Fols. 114-15 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Ex.& Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 116-25 (10 leaves): Transcript of letters from Malpighi to Spon.
• Fols. 126-41 (16 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of `Vitiated Sight' (Final Causes).
• Fols. 142-4 (3 leaves): Italian extract on `l'Occhio della Mosca'.
• Fol. 145 (1 leaf): 'About Barnacles'.
• Fol. 146 (1 leaf): Account of `a pious and eminent Divine' suffering from `a Distemper of his eyes that is very extraordinary'.
• Fols. 147-63 (18 leaves): `The last bundle <save one> of Physiological Memorandums', [Workdiary 28, part 1].
• Fol. 164 (1 leaf): List of notes and headings for a scientific/medical work.
• Fols. 165-7 (3 leaves): Notes on proposition 'That Beasts may be but Engines'.

• Fols. 1-7 (7 leaves): Sections of text on medical and miscellaneous topics.
• Fols. 8-9 (2 leaves): Comments on poisons and antidotes.
• Fol. 10 (1 leaf): Section of text concerning 'the state of physick in some of the remoter parts of the world'.
• Fols. 11-40 (40 leaves): Materials for putative second edition of Human Blood.
• Fol. 41 (1 leaf): MS version of secondary titles in Human Blood.
• Fol. 42 (1 leaf): MS version of `Titles of the First Order' in Human Blood.
• Fols. 43-4 (2 leaves): 'Heads of the History of human blood'.
• Fols. 45v-46 (2 leaves): List of three `Preliminary Titles' and forty-two `Titles of the first Order' prepared for the proposed second edition of Human Blood.
• Fol. 47 (1 leaf): Heads concerning the Gall.
• Fol. 48 (1 leaf): List of Heads for Human Blood, etc.
• Fols. 49v-50, (2 leaves): List of three `Preliminary Titles' and forty-two `Titles of the first Order' for Human Blood.
• Fols. 51-2 (2 leaves): `Materials for the Scheme of the Titles of the Second Classis of the Natural History of H. Blood'.
• Fol. 53 (1 leaf):`Titles of the 1. Order. for the natural History of Humane Blood of Healthy Men'.
• Fol. 54 (1 leaf): MS version of `Titles of the 1. Order for the natural History of Humane Blood of healthy men'.
• Fol. 55v (1 leaf): `A list of the secondary Titles concerning the spirit of H.B.'.
• Fols. 56-7 (2 leaves): (i) `A Preliminary Title'/`Primary Titles Additional for the History of Human Blood', (ii) `Secondary Titles or Subtitles For the History of Human Blood'.
• Fols. 58-9 (2 leaves): `Titles of the 1. Classis for the Natural History of Human Urine, emitted by Healthy Men'.
• Fols. 60-1 (2 leaves): Extracts from travellers' accounts dealing with medical matters, etc.
• Fols. 62-3 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Exp & Obs Physicae and related material.
• Fol. 64 (1 leaf): Unpublished text relating to Christ. Virt., II.
• Fols. 65-76 (12 leaves): Sections of text on medical topics, including prefatory material concerning 'parable medicines'.
• Fols. 77-8 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Specific Medicines.
• Fol. 79 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Salubrity of the Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fol. 80 (1 leaf): Unpublished passage about `the Chymicall way of examineing Drugs'.
• Fols. 81-2 (2 leaves): Text of putative appendix to Specific Medicines.
• Fol. 83 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Human Blood.
• Fol. 84 (1 leaf): Recipe mixing `the blood of a hermaphrodite and the blood of a sound Ruddy Comlexioned woman'.
• Fols. 85-9 (5 leaves): Text of putative appendix to Specific Medicines.
• Fols. 90-1 (2 leaves): Two passages for Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Fol. 92 (1 leaf): Unpublished experiment on a viper in an evacuated receiver.
• Fol. 93 (1 leaf): Discarded version of part of Final Causes.
• Fols. 94-5 (2 leaves): 'A Continuation of Physiologicall Entryes' [Workdiary 20].
• Fol. 96 (1 leaf): MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fol. 97 (1 leaf): Unpublished note concerning an experiment with galls producing a purple colour in `the German Spaw-water'.
• Fol. 98 (1 leaf): MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fols. 99-100 (2 leaves): Material relating to Ex & Obs Physicae.
• Fols. 101-2 (2 leaves): Dr Davies' prescription for Boyle.
• Fols. 103-4 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 105-9 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 110-11 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 112-13 (2 leaves): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
• Fol. 114 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 115-16: Material relating to Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 117-18: Material relating to Notion of Nature.
• Fol. 119 (1 leaf): Material relating to Notion of Nature.
• Fols. 120-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of High Veneration.
• Fols. 122-4 (3 leaves): 'Of Subterraneal Steams'.
• Fol. 125 (1 leaf): List of headings, probably for medical treatise.
• Fol. 126 (1 leaf): 'The great French Lythotomists Receipt For the stone in the bladder'.
• Fol. 127 (1 leaf): MS version of title III, experiment I, of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
• Fol. 128 (1 leaf): MS version of experiment XX, second trial, of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fol. 128v (1 leaf): MS version of title III, experiment III, of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
• Fols. 129-30 (2 leaves): 'Anatomical Expts To be try'd' (pencil endorsement) on animal nerves and on the heads of newborn puppies.
• Fols. 131-2 (2 leaves): A fantastical plant in Rome, allegedly grown by Kircher by the effect of heat on a mixture placed in glass.
• Fols. 133-4 (2 leaves): 'Considerations and Doubts Touching the vulgar Method of Physick'.

• Pp. 1-18 (9 leaves): Remarks about natural history in the form of a letter to Henry Oldenburg.
• Pp. 19-34 (8 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of `Differing Pressure of Heavy Solids and Fluids' (Flame and Air).
• Pp. 35-41 (4 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of `Positive or Relative Levity of Bodies under Water' (Flame and Air).
• Pp. 43-50 (4 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of `Pressure of the Air's Spring on Bodies under water' (Flame and Air).
• Pp. 51-70 (10 leaves): 'Chimical Notes Continued from December': [Workdiary 34].
• Pp. 71-4 (2 leaves): 'A Continuation of Chymical Notes Sept. the 29th' [Workdiary 23, part 1].
• Pp. 75-86 (6 leaves): 'Chimical Memorandums continued from January 25' [Workdiary 35].
• Pp. 87-94 (4 leaves): [Workdiary 23, part 2].
• Pp. 95-111 (8 leaves): Latin translation of part of Exp. et Obs. Physicae.
• Pp. 113-25 (7 leaves): Latin passages relating to 'Strange Reports' comprising dated observations and introductory remarks.
• Pp. 127-35(5 leaves): Part of 'Thoughts and Observations about the Generation of Mineralls'.
• Pp. 137-44 (4 leaves): 'De Motu Corporum ex mutuo impulsu Hypothesis'.
• Pp. 145-52 (4 leaves): 'Archimedes Equations of a Sphaere, and Cylinder, their Surfaces & Solids', with a cover-note (p.145) in the form of a letter from Robert Wood to George Tollet.
• Pp. 153-6 (2 leaves): 'Promiscuous Observations begun the 24th of September 1655' [Workdiary 13, part 1].
• Pp. 157-60 (2 leaves): 'A Private Philosophical Diary' [Workdiary 14].
• Pp. 161-4 (2 leaves): 'My Private Philosophicall Diary Begun this First of Jan. 1656-7' [Workdiary 16].
• Pp. 165-76 (6 leaves): 'Philosophicall Collections begun the 12th of September 1656' [Workdiary 15, part 1].
• Pp. 177-83 (4 leaves): 'Promiscuous Observations begun the 24th of September 1655' [Workdiary 13, part 2].
• Pp. 185-215 (15 leaves): Latin translation of list of heads and opening section of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals'.
• Pp. 217-24 (4 leaves): Introductory material to 'Paralipomena'.
• Pp. 225-54 (15 leaves): 'Memoirs & Paralipomena the 2nd Tome'.
• Pp. 255-61 (4 leaves): Two copies of Latin notes on metals.
• Pp. 262-72 (6 leaves): List of topics concerning natural history of water, list of proposed experiments and extracts from French geographical books.
• Pp. 273-82 (5 leaves): Information recorded from the Imperial ambassador and members of his entourage concerning the transmutation of gold performed by J. W. Seiler, one with the date 'June 26' in margin, with further extract added from letter from St George Ashe to the Royal Society, July 1691.
• Pp. 283-307 (12 leaves): Material relating to the `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals', part one (pp. 287-303), including list of heads (p. 305), etc.
• Pp. 309-14 (3 leaves): Miscellaneous notes and recipes.
• Pp. 315-20 (3 leaves): Prefatory material to a paper on the use of alchemical processes (pp. 315-7) and definition of spirit (p. 319).
• Pp. 321-26 (3 leaves): Manuscript version of 'Strangely Self-moving Liquor' (Phil. Trans. 1685).
• Pp. 327-8 (1 leaf): Notes on experiment with aqua fortis and quicksilver.
• Pp. 329-36 (4 leaves): Perfume recipes 'out of Mr. Evelyns Booke of Receipts &'.
• Pp. 337-40 (2 leaves): Letter from 'George, Patriarch of Antioch' to Boyle.
• Pp. 341-2 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 7].
• Pp. 343-6 (2 leaves): 'Memorialls Philosophicall. Beginning this First day of the Yeare 1651/52' [Workdiary 8].
• Pp. 347-58 (6 leaves): [Workdiary 9].
• Pp. 359-62 (2 leaves): [Workdiary 10].
• Pp. 363-5 (2 leaves): Notes on loadstones.
• Pp. 367-85 (10 leaves): Recipes for scented tobacco, toothpaste, invisible ink, etc.
• Pp. 387-90 (2 leaves): 'Certain observations Concerning the shinning [sic] of Sea Water'.
• Pp. 391-4 (2 leaves): List of `Observations to be made' and `Tryalls to be made' concerning shining Wood'.
• Pp. 395-410 (8 leaves): Sections of text concerning shining substances and sea salt.
• Pp. 411-17 (4 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Pp. 419-21 (2 leaves): Further account of Seiler's transmutation Degradation of Gold.
• Pp. 423-6 (2 leaves): `A Conjecture at the Causes of the real Virtues of Gems & medicinall stones'.
• Pp. 427-32 (3 leaves): 'Doctor Wallys's Account of Dr. Goddards Experiment made at Gresham-Colledge, about weighing of Glas[s]-canes with the Cylinders of quicksilver, standing in them, according to the Torricellean Experiment'.
• Pp. 433-6 (2 leaves): 'Praeparatio Salis marini &c': account of experiments with salt, etc.
• Pp. 437-42 (3 leaves): Diagrams of 'a Mercuriall Furnace'.
• P. 443 (1 leaf): Brief note on generation and transmutation of stones.

• Fols. 1-2 (2 leaves): 'A Philosophicall Diary begun Sept. the 20th' [Workdiary 17]
• Fol. 3 (1 leaf): 'Distinguish'd Experiments Or more Private Observations Continu'd from 7ber the 29th 1688/9' [Workdiary 39].
• Fols. 4-5 (2 leaves): Fragment of an experiment on heating chemicals in vacuo.
• Fols. 6-12 (7 leaves): Miscellaneous papers, including observations and fragments of text.
• Fols. 13-25 (13 leaves): 'Preliminar[y] Relation of the Mines in Scotland in Generall'.
• Fols. 26-28 (3 leaves): MS version of preface to General History of Air.
• Fol. 29 (1 leaf): List of titles for General History of Air.
• Fol. 30 (1 leaf): Superseded version of preface to `Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fol. 31 (1 leaf): General History of Air.
• Fol. 32 (1 leaf): 'A Small Stone of the Kinde called by some Authors Oculus Mundi, being dry & clowdy weighed': table of weights of the stone when dry, wet, etc.; and experiment on it.
• Fol. 33-6 (4 leaves): 'Promiscuous Collections out of Parrac his fourth Tome': numbered observations on chemical matters.
• Fols. 37-44 (8 leaves): Further chemical notes and memoranda.
• Fol. 45v (1 leaf): `The Titles of the (Naturall and Experimental) History of the Air'.
• Fol. 46 (1 leaf): List of titles for Human Blood.
• Fols. 47-8 (2 leaves): Copy of published text of 'Natural History of a Country'.
• Fols. 49-52 (4 leaves): Titles for Natural Histories of Water and Sea.
• Fol. 53 (1 leaf): MS version of title III, experiment III, of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans, 1670).
• Fols. 54-63 (10 leaves): Miscellaneous accounts of experiments and sections of text.
• Fols. 64-5 (2 leaves): 'Chap: XII', dealing with solution of simultaneous linear equations.
• Fols. 66-7 (2 leaves): Extracts from workdiaries.
• Fols. 68-74 (7 leaves): Miscellaneous sections of text, dealing with fire, heat and smoke (fols. 68-71, 74), and hydrostatic phenomena (fols. 72-3).
• Fols. 75-6 (2 leaves):'Enquirys about Lime'.
• Fol. 77 (1 leaf): Unknown correspondent to Boyle.
• Fols. 78-89 (12 leaves): Extracts from workdiaries and pasted down sections of text, recipes and memoranda.
• Fol. 90 (1 leaf): Enquirys and Tryalls about Insects & sponteneata.
• Fols. 91-5 (5 leaves): 'De Centro Gravitatis' and 'De Libra'.
• Fols. 96-9 (4 leaves): [Workdiary 15, part 2].
• Fols. 100-4 (6 leaves): Miscellaneous recipes, etc.
• Fols. 105-8 (4 leaves): Miscellaneous sections of text, including MS version of experiment XX, second trial, of Spring, 1st Continuation (fol. 106).
• Fols. 109-114 (6 leaves): Account of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopical observations and of mechanical apparatus.
• Fol. 115 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Ex. & Obs. Physicae.
• Fol. 116 (1 leaf): Extract from letter concerning barometric observations of tides.
• Fols. 117-18 (2 leaves): 'L'arte maestra d'Agrocultura in segna a moltiplicare il raccolto delle semenze'.
• Fols. 119-24 (6 leaves): MS version of parts of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fol. 125 (1 leaf): Fragment of unpublished Latin translation by Henry Oldenburg of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fol. 126 (1 leaf): Account of phenomenon in letter by 'Mr J.M.' to 'T.H.'
• Fols. 127-8 (2 leaves): 'To prepare a balance to measure the bulk of bodyes by the help of water'.
• Fol. 129 (1 leaf): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Fols. 130-2 (3 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fols. 133-4 (2 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Ex. & Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 135-6 (2 leaves): Superseded version of part of `History of Fluidity' (Certain Physiological Essays).
• Fols. 137-8 (2 leaves): [Workdiary 30, part 2].
• Fols. 139-42 (4 leaves): Miscellaneous recipes, etc., including ''The Vernish for Gilding Picture-Frames' in hand of John Evelyn.
• Fols. 143-53 (11 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Ex. & Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 154-61 (8 leaves): 'Sectio II'.
• Fols. 162-75 (14 leaves): 'Essay the [...] Of the Atomicall Philosophy'.
• Fols. 176-81 (6 leaves): Latin list of Boyle's works, 1661-87.
• Fols. 182-9 (8 leaves): French translation of chs. 1-2 of Basil Valentin's Tractatus Chymico-Philosophicus de Rebus Naturalibus et Supernaturalibus (Frankfurt, 1676), and 'Advis au Lecteur'.
• Fols. 190-2 (3 leaves): Transcript of German treatise, 'Bereitung des Stein Ignis'.
• Fols. 193-4 (2 leaves): Synopses of parts of Usefulness.
• Fols. 195-6 (2 leaves): MS version of parts of Icy Noctiluca.
• Fol. 197 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fols. 198-9 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Porosity.
• Fol. 200 (1 leaf): (a) MS version of part of Flame and Air and (b) section of text on effluviums.
• Fol. 201 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fols. 202-3 (2 leaves): Reply to comments by a critic of Spring of Air, probably Francis Line.
• Fol. 204 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Cold.
• Fols. 205-6 (2 leaves):'New Experiments further elucidating The Nature of the Air Water & other Bodies' submitted to Royal Society, in reply to Boyle's pneumatic experiments, by 'J.W. gent.'.
• Fol. 207 (1 leaf): Unpublished experiment relating to Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fols. 208-16 (9 leaves) :Miscellaneous descriptions and lists of experiments, recipes and sections of text, some pasted down: includes diagrams of retorts, furnace, etc., experiment with white clay (fol. 210).
• Fol. 217 (1 leaf): `Experiments proposed to be made in Mr Boyles Pneumatick Engine'.
• Fols. 218-20 (3 leaves): Account of 'Some of Dr Elzholtz's curious and usefull Experiments' and Latin paper giving formula for calculation.
• Fol. 221v (1 leaf): List of titles for General History of Air.
• Fols. 222-3 (2 leaves): MS version of preface to General History of Air.
• Fol. 224 (1 leaf): Drawing of furnace.
• Fol. 225 (1 leaf): List of things to remember.
• Fol. 226 (1 leaf): Details of costs of smelting silver in Cardinganshire.

• Pp. 1-98 (49 leaves): 'Memoirs for the Natural History of Tin': introduction, followed by pages with headings, with occasional passages of text inserted.
• Pp. 99-108 (10 leaves): Section of text of Medicina Chromatica.
• Pp. 109-16 (4 leaves): MS version of parts of Human Blood.
• Pp. 117-20 (2 leaves): Copied extracts, including copy of cure for ague signed by William Smith, curate of Deptford, and given to Boyle by Evelyn.
• Pp. 121-207 (44 leaves): Unpublished Latin translation of part of Christ. Virt., I.
• Pp. 209-35 (14 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Pp. 237-56 (10 leaves): MS version of part of Effluviums.
• Pp. 257-8 (1 leaf): Latin text and mathematical equations: propositions '33' and '34'; endorsed 'Ex Euclid Elementorum lib. (?), pag. 478, 479'.
• Pp. 259-63 (3 leaves): Fragments of a set of notes on cold, many with information provided by Samuel Collins.
• Pp. 265-75 (6 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Pp. 277-83 (4 leaves): Miscellaneous reports, observations, recipes and memoranda, at least some of them extracts from (lost) workdiaries.
• Pp. 285-91 (4 leaves): Experiments concerning atmospheric pressure.
• Pp. 293-6 (2 leaves): Material relating to Usefulness.
• Pp. 297-9 (2 leaves): Latin extracts from an 'Oration'.
• Pp. 301-7 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Effluviums.
• Pp. 309-11 (2 leaves): 'Memorialls Philosophical Beginning this Newyears day 1649/50 & to End with the Year. And so, by God's Permission, to be annually continu'd during my Life': [Workdiary 6].
• Pp. 313-6 (2 leaves): MS version of experiment 45 of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Pp. 317-26 (5 leaves): Latin accounts of experiments and recipes, including lengthy account of producing purified salts and spirits.
• Pp. 327-30 (2 leaves): Fragment of MS version of text of Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Pp. 331 (1 leaf): 'Ratio extrahendi ex omnibus Metallis, Mercurium Paracelsum'.
• P. 333 (1 leaf): Two scraps of paper giving key to chemicals numbered 20-41 and 76-108.
• P. 335-6 (1 leaf): Material relating to Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Pp. 337-40 (2 leaves): Recipes for chymical processes [Workdiary 31].
• Pp. 343-71 (16 leaves): Various sections of text, interspersed by recipes, some on pasted in slips.
• Pp. 373-5 (2 leaves): Fragment of Latin translation of 'Heat and Cold' (Mechanical Qualities).
• Pp. 377-80 (2 leaves): Material relating to Usefulness, II, sect. 1.
• Pp. 381-90 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Pp. 391-4 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• P. 395 (1 leaf): Material relating to Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Pp. 397-8 (1 leaf): Recipes for jewellers' cement.
• Pp. 399-402 (2 leaves): 'A Summary Account Of my whole Designe concerning Vegetables', including lists of matters to be considered (incomplete).
• Pp. 403-4 (1 leaf): List of headings 'Of Fermentation'.
• Pp. 405-6 (1 leaf): List of things to remember and `Particulars belonging to the Scepticall Chymist'.
• P. 407 (1 leaf): French paper concerning navigational skills of Sr. Guillet.
• Pp. 409-12 (2 leaves): Notes on production of 'Glasse of Antim[ony]', etc., and 'Author's Tincture'.

• Fols. 1-2 (2 leaves): Two copies of `Advertisement' curtailing Boyle's willingness to receive visitors.
• Fols. 3-5 (3 leaves): Introductory material for 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 6 (1 leaf): MS version of Boyle's justification for writing on single sheets.
• Fols. 7-8 (2 leaves): Boyle's response to the allegations of 'Mr H.'.
• Fols. 9-10 (2 leaves): MS version of a complaint about plagiarism.
• Fol. 11 (1 leaf): Note concerning specimen of 'Design'd Processes'.
• Fol. 12 (1 leaf): Alternative version of subsidiary remarks to section of Ex & Obs Physicae dealing with medical topics.
• Fol. 13 (1 leaf): 'The Titles of the Latter Part of the Diffident Naturalist'.
• Fol. 14 (1 leaf): Preliminary version of introductory note to 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 15 (1 leaf): Further paper on plagiarism.
• Fol. 16 (1 leaf): Introductory note to table giving true/feigned names of sources of recipes.
• Fols. 17-18 (2 leaves): MS version of the sequel to 1688 advertisement.
• Fol. 19 (1 leaf): 'A Scheme or Method of the Experiments & Observationes Physicae'.
• Fols. 20-1 (2 leaves): List of papers left with Mrs. Dury, esp. concerning lands, etc.
• Fol. 22 (1 leaf): Clean copy of opening page of `Post-Script' to Notion of Nature.
• Fol. 23 (1 leaf): Prefatory statement to text on use of experiment and reason in natural philosophy.
• Fol. 24 (1 leaf): `A Scheme or List of the Heads to which the following Particulars belonging to the Medicina Chromatica may be refer'd'.
• Fol. 25 (1 leaf): Note on experimental phenomena and prefatory statement.
• Fols. 26-7 (2 leaves): Mathematical papers.
• Fol. 28 (1 leaf): List of works by Dr Muller.
• Fol. 29 (1 leaf): List of scientific phenomena to remember.
• Fol. 30 (1 leaf): Introductory material concerning use and limits of sense, experience, reason and authority in natural philosophy.
• Fol. 31 (1 leaf): Introductory note concerning work by Boyle.
• Fols 32-35 (4 leaves): MS version of 'philosophical' part of published list of Boyle's works.
• Fol. 36 (1 leaf): Introductory note and index of chapters to 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 37 (1 leaf): Introductory note concerning work by Boyle.
• Fols. 38-41 (4 leaves): Documents relating to Boyle's arbitration in a dispute between Samuel Hutchinson and Viscount Grandison concerning a method of smelting lead using coal.
• Fols. 42-4 (3 leaves): Robert Codrington, Latin ode to Boyle.
• Fols. 45-9 (5 leaves): Brief notes marked for various (mostly unpublished) works.
• Fol. 50 (1 leaf): Birch's 'Memorandum' concerning the proposed edition of Boyle's works.
• Fol. 51 (1 leaf): Printed Advertisement concerning the loss of Boyle's writings, May 1688.
• Fols. 52-3 (2 leaves): 'Things To be Done': list of experiments.
• Fol. 54 (1 leaf): Miscellaneous notes and calculations.
• Fol. 55 (1 leaf): List of things to be remembered concerning Boyle's papers.
• Fol. 56 (1 leaf): List of chapters of 'Paralipomena'.
• Fols. 57-8 (2 leaves): Notes on contents of various works by Boyle, including Christian Virtuoso, I, Appendix (1),'Chaos of Notes relateing to Inflammability', 'Requisites of a Good Hypothesis' (2), writings on distillation, Ex & Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 59-60 (2 leaves): 'A Catalogue of the Honourable Mr. Boyles writings unpublish'd taken the 7th of July 1684'.
• Fol. 61 (1 leaf): List of contents of boxes A and B.
• Fol. 62 (1 leaf): Synopsis of intended treatise, 'Of Publick Spiritedness'.
• Fol. 63 (1 leaf): Early version of list of contents of 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 64 (1 leaf): 'Advertisements' to 'Paralipomena'.
• Fols. 65-6 (2 leaves): 'Of Naturall Philosophie', a synopsis.
• Fols. 67-8 (2 leaves): 'Catalogus quorundum Librorum Nobilissimi domini d. Boyle latinè transcriptorum', 'A catalogue of certain books by the Hon. Mr. Boyle translated into Latin'.
• Fol. 69 (1 leaf): List of writings of Boyle, dated 'Decemb. the 30'.
• Fol. 70 (1 leaf): Lists of 'Philosophicall Essays', 'Experiments unpublished', etc.
• Fol. 71 (1 leaf): Tituli Ad Naturalem atque Experimentalem Aeris Historiam'.
• Fol. 72 (1 leaf): List of Boyle's unpublished writings, dated 3 July 1691.
• Fol. 73 (1 leaf): List of writings to 'seek for', 7 January 1690/1.
• Fol. 74 (1 leaf): 'The Order of My Severall Treatises'.
• Fols. 75-6 (2 leaves): Catalogue of Boyle's unpublished writings, 7 July 1684.
• Fols. 77v-8 (2 leaves): List of desiderata for natural philosophy.
• Fol. 79 (1 leaf): Catalogue of mineral specimens intended for the Royal Society.
• Fol. 80 (1 leaf): List of headings concerning copper.
• Fols. 81-2 (2 leaves): Lists of natural/scientific phenomena, observations, experiments etc.
• Fol. 83 (1 leaf): `Particulars about Essay the ---
• Fol. 84 (1 leaf): List of contents of part 2 of Exp. & Obs. Physicae.
• Fols. 85-6 (2 leaves):
  1). Lists of essays and treatises by Boyle, and other notes (with a key to the abbreviations used), and
  2). section of workdiary 5.
• Fol. 87 (1 leaf): Two pasted-down notes, one listing experimental and other writings, the other things to remember concerning 'The will' and other matters.
• Fols. 88-90 (3 leaves): Lists by Oldenburg of papers 'mentioned to me by the Honourable Robert Boyle, March 26 1677'.
• Fol. 91 (1 leaf): 'The Order of My Several Treatises'.
• Fol. 92 (1 leaf): Early version of list of contents of 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 93v (1 leaf): 'Advertisements' to 'Paralipomena'.
• Fol. 94 (1 leaf): MS version of the 21 titles for Cold.
• Fols. 95-6 (2 leaves): 'An Index of the Chapters of the Experimenta et Observationes Physicae' (fol. 95) and 'Chapters designed for the 2d Tome of Experimenta et Observationes Physicae'.
• Fol. 97 (1 leaf): Numbered list of hydrostatical and other phenomena.
• Fols. 98-9 (2 leaves): Two identical lists of topics relating to luminosity.
• Fol. 100 (1 leaf): List of nine works by Boyle.
• Fol. 101 (1 leaf): 'An Idea for the advancement of Experimental Philosophy'.
• Fols. 102-11 (10 leaves): Numbered list of recipes.
• Fols. 112-13 (2 leaves): Two lists of contents of 'Paralipomena' with identical text.
• Fol. 114 (1 leaf): 'The Order of My Severall Treatises'.
• Fol. 115 (1 leaf): Note concerning papers 'sealed up in this (Paper) case'.
• Fol. 116 (1 leaf): Notes relating to drafting of will.
• Fols. 117-20 (4 leaves): Contents of boxes A and B.
• Fol. 121 (1 leaf): Lists of contents of five boxes, dated 21 January [1691].
• Fols. 122-3 (2 leaves): Inventory of Boyle's papers, dated 17 September 1691.
• Fols. 124-5 (2 leaves): Miles' notes on the structure of Christ. Virt., II, and his plans for same, with miscellaneous memoranda.
• Fols. 126-7 (2 leaves): Comments on a work in draft form on reason, revelation and the resurrection.
• Fol. 128 (1 leaf): Miles' notes and queries concerning Wotton's 'Sketch' of Boyle's life.
• Fol. 129 (1 leaf): Miles' list of Boyle letters, 1645-8.
• Fol. 130 (1 leaf): Miles' notes on his work on Christ. Virt., II, dated 26 Nov. 1742.
• Fols. 131-2 (2 leaves): Fragment of alphabetical list of Boyle letters sent to Birch for printing, 2 November 1742 ('A' only).
• Fols. 133-4 (2 leaves): List of Hooke-Boyle letters and their content, on back of cover of letter to Thomas Edlin.
• Fol. 135 (1 leaf): Calculations concerning length of Boyle letters, written on incomplete letter concerning vacancies in English church at Amsterdam.
• Fol. 136 (1 leaf): Notes on contents of 'Tract about Atheism'.
• Fols. 137-9 (3 leaves): Miles' notes on length of Christ. Virt., II, and miscellaneous memoranda.
• Fol. 140 (1 leaf): Miles' notes on contents of 'Ethical Elements' (i.e., Aretology).
• Fols. 141-3 (3 leaves): Numbered list by Miles of Boyle manuscripts.
• Fols. 144-5 (2 leaves): List of Boyle letters made by Miles while sorting them.
• Fol. 146 (1 leaf): Synopsis of Miles' inventories of Boyle Papers.
• Fols. 147-8 (2 leaves): Miles' copy of William Clarke's list of Boyle papers owned by Wotton, with ancillary notes.
• Fol. 149 (1 leaf): Miles' memoranda on Boyle's papers.
• Fols. 150-2 (3 leaves): Lists of letters by Beale and Boyle.
• Fols. 153-4 (2 leaves): Notes by Miles concerning the content of what is now BL 7.
• Fol. 155 (1 leaf): Miles's list of Boyle's unpublished writings.
• Fol. 156 (1 leaf): List of numbers of letters from different correspondents sent to press.
• Fols. 157-60 (4 leaves): Inventory of Boyle manuscripts by Miles, divided into categories denoted by letters.
• Fols. 161-2 (2 leaves): List of Boyle letters made by Miles while sorting them.
• Fols. 163-4 (2 leaves): Numbered list by Miles of Boyle manuscripts, with associate memoranda.
• Fol. 165 (1 leaf): List of published works by Boyle in unknown hand, with notes by Miles.
• Fols. 166-9 (4 leaves): Notes and queries by Miles concerning Boyle MSS.
• Fol. 170 (1 leaf): Incomplete list of unpublished MSS by Boyle.
• Fol. 171 (1 leaf): Synopsis of Miles' inventories of Boyle Papers.
• Fol. 172 (1 leaf): List of letters belonging with those on fols. 150-2.
• Fol. 173 (1 leaf): List by Miles of issues of Miscellanea Curiosa, perhaps to assess completeness of a set.
• Fol. 174-5 (2 leaves): Notes by Miles of contents of numbered issues, perhaps of a dissenting journal.
• Fol. 176 (1 leaf): Draft letter by Miles.
• Fol. 177 (1 leaf): List of 'the subiects of the Tracts that I have yet met with among my Papers, to which other Titles may be added as the Papers belonging to them come to hand', as also experiments.
• Fol. 178 (1 leaf): Three pasted-down notes.
• Fol. 179 (1 leaf): Further memoranda by Miles relating to his work on Boyle.
• Fols. 180-9 (10 leaves): Inventory of Boyle letters in chronological order, with separate groups at end and name index, by Willam Wotton.
• Fol. 190 (1 leaf): List of books divided into numbered sections in Miles' hand.
• Fols. 191-2 (2 leaves): Lists by Miles of letters grouped by sender in order of date, with other memoranda.
• Fol. 193 (1 leaf): Jottings by Miles.
• Fol. 194 (1 leaf): Notes evidently linked to those on fol. 173.
• Fol. 195 (1 leaf): List of numbers of dwelling houses and inhabitants.
• Fol. 196 (1 leaf): List of 'Bound books' by Miles.
• Fol. 197 (1 leaf): List of Oldenburg letters, with notes on content.
• Fol. 198 (1 leaf): 'Alphabet[ical] List of L[ette]rs Sent to the press taken Nov[emb]r 2 1742 ∓ Sent to Mr. Birch', with additions dated 18 Nov. 1742.
• Fols. 199-200 (2 leaves): List of books, including sermons and funeral sermons.
• Fol. 201 (1 leaf): Cover-sheet, with memoranda by Miles on it.
• Fol. 202 (1 leaf): Miles' copy of William Clarke's inventory of Boyle MSS in his possession.
• Fols. 203-4 (2 leaves): Pasted down slips of paper comprising miscellaneous notes by Miles, inc. on 'Motives to love G[od]' and Thomson's Seasons, together with list of biographical papers, etc.
• Fol. 205 (1 leaf): Draft letter by Miles; references and calculations on verso.
• Fol. 206 (1 leaf): Further numbered lists of sermons, etc., related to fols. 190, 199-200.
• Fol. 207 (1 leaf): Notes by Miles, including demographic data, note on William Hook, and list of references.
• Fols. 208-9 (2 leaves): 'Theses Mathematico-Physicae de Terra Joannis Placentini. Lesnensis Mathem: Profes: publ: Ordin: Francofurti'.

• Fols. 1-5 (5 leaves): MS version of 'Articles of Inquiry Touching Mines' (Phil. Trans., 1666).
• Fols. 6-10 (5 leaves): Notes and sections of text on natural philosophy.
• Fol. 11 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Specific Medicines.
• Fols. 12-14 (3 leaves): Unpublished passages of medical works.
• Fol. 15 (1 leaf): Geographical observations.
• Fols. 16-17 (2 leaves): Observations concerning a refrigerated/heated loadstone.
• Fol. 18 (1 leaf): Scientific notes.
• Fol. 19 (1 leaf): Latin medical notes.
• Fols. 20-1 (2 leaves): Pasted up snippets of text.
• Fol. 22 (1 leaf): Notes on human imperfection and divine perfection, and things to remember in various writings.
• Fol. 23 (1 leaf): MS version of a section of `Medica Praescripta Commicata R.B'.
• Fol. 24 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 40, part 2].
• Fol. 25 (1 leaf): Brief notes of things to remember in various treatises (cf. BP 38, fol. 22); dated 'Aprill the 25th'.
• Fol. 26 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Examen.
• Fols. 27-30 (4 leaves): Pasted-up notes, including fragments of Usefulness.
• Fol. 31 (1 leaf): Passage of text on gems and causes of shining 'salino-sulphureous Particles'.
• Fol. 32 (1 leaf): Fragment of superseded version of part of Hydrostatical Paradoxes.
• Fol. 33 (1 leaf): MS versions of two passages in General History of Air.
• Fol. 34 (1 leaf): Introductory passage to collection of data.
• Fol. 35 (1 leaf): Diagram of triangle.
• Fol. 36 (1 leaf): MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fols. 37-9 (3 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's dialogue 'Of the Requisites of a Good Hypothesis.
• Fols. 40-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Effluviums.
• Fol. 42 (1 leaf): [Workdiary 28, part 2].
• Fols. 43-6 (4 leaves): MS version of part of Final Causes.
• Fol. 47 (1 leaf): Account of experiment about transmission of colourless ink through wetted paper.
• Fol. 48 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Languid Motion.
• Fols. 49-50 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Spring, 1st Continuation.
• Fol. 51 (1 leaf): Experiment concerning heat.
• Fols. 52-3 (2 leaves): Notes relating to Effluviums.
• Fols. 54-5 (2 leaves): Fragment of Boyle's 'Essay on Spontaneous Generation'.
• Fol. 56 (1 leaf): Latin account of chemical experiment.
• Fols. 57-8 (2 leaves): Section of text of Certain Physiological Essays.
• Fols. 59-60 (2 leaves): Section of text concerning the circulation of the blood, and an experiment to illustrate it.
• Fols. 61-3 (3 leaves): Section of text related to Hydrostatical Paradoxes.
• Fols. 64-5 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fol. 66 (1 leaf): Notes for Christ. Virt., I.
• Fol. 67 (1 leaf): Fragment from MS version of Languid Motion.
• Fols. 68-70 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Christ. Virt., II.
• Fols. 71-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Degradation of Gold.
• Fol. 73 (1 leaf): Two lists of scientific phenomena.
• Fol. 74 (1 leaf): Text relating to Cold.
• Fol. 75 (1 leaf): Part of defence speech by 'E.G.'.
• Fol. 76 (1 leaf): Part of original version of Usefulness.
• Fols. 77-8 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fol. 79 (1 leaf): Section of text on feelings of severed limbs.
• Fol. 80 (1 leaf): 'Introductory Preface'.
• Fol. 81 (1 leaf): `Notes & Experiments belonging to the papers about the History of Qualities...'
• Fol. 82 (1 leaf): Sections of text on substantial forms, etc.
• Fols. 83-4 (2 leaves): Section of text relating to Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fols. 85-6 (2 leaves): MS version of introduction to `Essay XIII' of Usefulness.
• Fols. 87-8 (2 leaves): Section of text dealing with concretion of liquors.
• Fols. 89-91 (3 leaves): MS version of part of Producibleness.
• Fols. 92-3 (2 leaves): MS version of part of 'Continuation of Fluids contiguous to other Fluids' (Phil. Trans., 1677).
• Fol. 94 (1 leaf): Geographical notes.
• Fols. 95-6 (2 leaves): MS versions of two passages in Hidden Qualities and five in General History of Air.
• Fol. 97 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Things above Reason.
• Fols. 98-9 (2 leaves): Texts concerning effluvia of celestial bodies, heat of sun, etc.
• Fols. 100-1 (2 leaves): MS version of part of General History of Air.
• Fols. 102 - 6 (5 leaves): Part of paper about the pores and figures of liquors, describing various experiments, etc., interrupted by note accompanying a strange creature, resembling a grasshopper (fol. 104).
• Fols. 107-8 (2 leaves): Limitations to distillation etc. in determining the nature of vegetables.
• Fols. 109-10 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Certain Physiological Essays.
• Fols. 111-12 (2 leaves): Introduction to Boyle's critique of orthodox medical practice, in the form of a letter.
• Fol. 113 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Theodora.
• Fol. 114 (1 leaf): MS version of part of `Salubrity of Air' (Languid Motion).
• Fol. 115 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Effluviums.
• Fol. 116 (1 leaf): Section of text concerning distillation.
• Fols. 117-18 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Ex & Obs Physicae.
• Fol. 119 (1 leaf): Inadequacy of anatomists' understanding of living organisms.
• Fol. 120 (1 leaf): Queries concerning electrical bodies, completing text in BP 22, fols. 197-9.
• Fols. 121-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fols. 123-4 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Gems.
• Fol. 125 (1 leaf): Passage concerning methods of calcining gold.
• Fols. 126-7 (2 leaves): Passage complaining of inadequacies of existing writings on natural philosophy.
• Fols. 128-9 (2 leaves): Section of text on the nature of firm bodies.
• Fol. 130 (1 leaf): Material relating to General History of Air.
• Fol. 131 (1 leaf): MS version of part of High Veneration.
• Fols. 132-6 (5 leaves): MS version of part of Exp. et Obs. Physicae.
• Fol. 137 (1 leaf): Section of text as to whether amalgam of metals nobler than its constituents, or a hybrid living creature than its ancestors.
• Fols. 138-9 (2 leaves): Fragment of 'Dialogue on Heat and Flame'.
• Fol. 140 (1 leaf): Conclusion of a discourse on liquors.
• Fols. 141-2 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Final Causes.
• Fols. 143-4 (2 leaves): Natural history observations (fungi and barnacles).
• Fols. 145-8 (4 leaves): Passages of text intended for insertion into Usefulness, or another, ancillary treatise.
• Fols. 149-50 (2 leaves): MS version of part of Usefulness, II, sect. 2.
• Fol. 151 (1 leaf): Passage concerning composition of copper.
• Fol. 152 (1 leaf): MS version of part of 'Respiration' (Phil. Trans., 1670).
• Fol. 153 (1 leaf): MS version of part of Flame and Air.
• Fol. 154 (1 leaf): Passage concerning the interpretation of others' experiments.
• Fols. 155-6 (2 leaves): MS version of parts of Usefulness, II, sect. 2, etc.
• Fols. 157-60 (4 leaves): Fragments of `Dialogue on the Generation and Transmutation of Metals' and related texts.
• Fol. 161 (1 leaf): Section of text relating to sequel to 'Alcali and Acid' (Mechanical Qualities).
• Fol. 162 (1 leaf): 'The Latin version of the Christian Virtuoso': cover sheet.