Royal Society Miscellaneous Manuscript 6/5: Alchemical notes in ...

X usually either 'star' or 'sal ammoniac', but according to B.J.T. Dobbs, The Foundations
of Newton's Alchemy, or 'The Hunting of the Greene Lyon' (Cambridge: CUP, 1975), xii,
Newton also used it idiosyncratically to mean 'star regulus of antimony'.
Two symbols I have been unable to replicate:
1) A cross surmounted by an oblong, meaning 'tartar[us]' and here expanded as
{tartarum} since its one occurrence is in a Latin passage and in the accusative.
2) A circle enclosing a cross minus the left-pointing arm. According to Fred Gettings,
Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils (London: Routlege and Kegan
Paul, 1981), 342, this was variously used to mean 'crystallised verdigris', 'genuine
sulphur', 'verdigris', 'vitriol' or 'vitriolic acid'. I have very conjecturally expanded it as
{vitriol?}.
{1r}
Text of MM/6/5
Quemadmodum imbibisti et sublimasti elementum terræ cum spiritu albo &
sublimasti in in 1 sulphur album naturæ salem crystallinum qui est
sulphur album naturæ sic imbibere debes elementum ignis cum spiritu rubro & sublimare
in salem rubrum pellucidu{m} qui est sulphur rubrum naturæ. Et hi duo sales sunt
columbæ sulphur album & sulphur rubrum naturæ, columbæ geminæ Diana et
Apollo, Arsenicum et auripigmentum, fumus albus & rubrus, Beia et Gabricus, ffrater et soror poculo amoris inebriandi, Sol et Luna balneo 2 lavandi , montes
mercurij et Veneris. Faber Panchym. p 579, 655, 662, 663, 674,
675, 677, 679, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, 698, 699, 703, 712. Alchym, Propugnac. p.
53. Herc. Piochym. p. 4. Triomph 3 Hermetiq{ue} p. 141, 142, 143. Arnaldi Rosar p 280,