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MESSRS. H. E. STAPLETON AND R. F. AZO ON 
Book V (Folio 68 r., top). 
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On the Duplication ( ) 
On the Duplication of Silver. 
On Zinjar 4 
On a Wonderful Secret. 
On the making of N at? un , s 
of Gold. 
Book VI (Folio 72 r., 1 . 8). 
“ The Sixth Book. In it are contained all the principal operations, and the 
crown of Princes. Fortunate therefore is he into whose hands this translation falls. 
This book is the crown of the five books previously given, and in it will be found the 
explanation of the Saying of the Sage/ ‘Nature conquers nature. Nature confines 
nature, and Nature follows nature.’ 
1. Four processes for the making of silver from whitened drugs, to which a 
5th section is added describing how the silver prepared in the last process is made to 
lose its brittleness. (Refers to the necessity of weighed quantities being used). 
2. On Iron. 
3. Two more processes for making silver from whitened drugs. 
4. A process for making silver from whitened copper by means of Cadmia 
( U>«A' ). 1 2 * * * 6 
5. Whitening copper by Cadmia. 
6. Four processes for making gold by combination. 
7. Dissolution [Hall] of Talq (Mica), and the coagulation of Mercury. 
8. Sublimation of Glass. 
The book ends abruptly with “And it will become transparent water, clearer 
than tears. Then coagulate it. One dirham may be projected on to 700 dirhams 
of any body you desire, [and will turn it into gold] if it please God! ’’ 
XI. The Kitabu-sh-Shawahid (Book of Evidences). One of the lost treatises of 
Muhammad ibn Zakariyya Ar-RazI, the well-known Persian physician of the latter 
half of the 9th Century A.D. 
Fliigel’s ed., p. 358). 
(Folio 76 r., 1 . 17, to f. 92 v., 1 . 14). (C/. Fihrist , 
1 C/. B., Introd., p. 60 : " (Parmi les orfevres egyptiens) le mot diplosis impliquait autrefois, tantot la simple aug- 
mentation de poids du metal precieux, additionne d’un metal de moindre valeur — qui n’en changeait pas 1’ apparence; 
tantot la fabrication de toutes pieces de l’or et de l’argent, par la transmutation de nature du metal surajoute; tous les 
metaux etant au fond identiques, couforniement aux theories platonieiennes sur la matiere premiere. 1/ agent meme de la 
transformation est une portion de 1 ’ alliage anterieur, jouant le role de ferment.” For a similar reference by Zosimus 
to diplosis, cf. B., La Chimie, II, trails., p. 222. 
2 Verdigris; cf. Mem. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, I, 4, p. 57, n.(6). 
o Cf. ditto, p. 58, 11.(6). The ' oil of Nitron ’ is constantly referred to b> Zosimus as being used in alchemical 
operations : vide, e.g., B., Coll., trans., pp. 130, 136 and 137. 
+ Apollonius, according to Ar-Razi in the Shawdhid (present MS. infra), but from its occurrence in a work 
ascribed to Democritos (B., Coll., I, trans., p. 45) it would seem to have been ultimately derived from Egypt 
6 For other references to Cadmia in works by Zosimus cf. B., Coll., trails., p. 201 ; and La Chimie, II, pp. 297 
and 298. 
