Pretiosa margarita novella de thesauro, ac pretiosissimo philosophorum lapide : artis huius divinae typus, et methodus: collectanea ex Arnaldo, Rhaymundo, Rhasi, Alberto, et Michaele Scoto

and the remaining principles, it is extended to generate M. or Q., or which arises from M. & Q. for the metals to be designated and changed, and also to be continuously informed.
M. PERFECT BEING, we mention it among the principles because, even though it is that very thing toward which we aim from C, D through E, F, G, H, I, K, L, O, P, it nonetheless holds the reason of form and efficient cause, since it reduces and perfects those things which have been diminished to water.
N. FERMENTATION is the admirable transition in Q. from M., in which matter the divine craftsman, having judged it necessary, will have established G, H, F, L, I, D with D, C, & M in G, and will continuously cherish the same with a very slow fire until, through H, F, L, I, it arrives at K; and in no lesser work, but insisting upon almost the same steps, he will endeavor that with much greater virtue and quantity than M., the most perfect Q. poison itself arises. Wherefore, since it will have been divinely granted to us once (for let no one hope for it from elsewhere), it will be possible to increase this perpetually, not only in magnitude but also in infinite forces. Nor will there be need to repeat M. again through long labors, which, as it may seem a very great thing in human affairs, so even of those who have composed M., few have achieved it.
Q. IS THEREFORE an informing poison, perfect in every part, that is to say, composed of equal elements on all sides. Wherefore (as has been said) it is much more perfect than M. and excels more in virtue; for besides that it infects and informs in two ways and changes its own first species, it then changes into X or Y almost infinitely. It is also an effective medicine for the illnesses of human beings, both of soul and body, inasmuch as it expels all perturbations.

The remaining text is fragmented and pertains to the heating and distillation process, referencing the cooling of the body, the washing, and the separation of oil and water.