《A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder》摘录

 A number of other recipes for magic lamps, using various materials, appear all together as if taken from some treatise on that subject. Then follow a number of pyrotechnic recipes, but as these are interrupted by some more magic lamps they probably came from the same work as the above. Some of the recipes are very similar to those in the Liber Ignium of Marcus Gr^cus (whose name is not mentioned) and some (apart from slight differences in wording) are identical. The proportions of the ingredients are, however, ojj"ted except in the gunpowder recipe

If you will make a contrary, that is an image of a man or any other thing which when it is put in water is inflamed and when it is taken out of it is extinguished, take quicklime and mix it with a little wax, and sesame oil, and naphtha, and white earth, and make an image of it, which when you sprinkle it with water will inflame

If you will carry fire in your hand so that it is not injured, take lime slaked in hot bean-water and a little mallow, and mix them well together. Then anoint the palm of your hand with it and let it dry, and put fire in it and it will not be injured. The philosophers say that talc is not burnt in fire and fish-glue preserves from fire, and Yaman alum, and blood of the salamander, and soot of the furnace or cauldron, when you make a liniment from them all or some of them, fire does not hurt

3. Lay two or three corns of Gunpowder upon a white piece of paper, the one three fingers distant from the other, and put fire to one of them, if the powder be good and strong, you shall see them all on fire at once, and that there will remain no grossness of 'Brimstone or of Saltpeter, no not any thing but a white smoky colour in the place where they were burned, neither will the paper be touched.

4.If good Gunpowder be laidupon the palm of your hand,and set on fire,you will not be burned.

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许多其他使用各种材料的魔灯配方一起出现，好像取自有关该主题的一些论文。然后遵循一些烟火配方，但由于这些配方被更多的魔法灯打断，它们可能来自与上述相同的工作。有些食谱与 Marcus Gr^cus 的 Liber Ignium 中的食谱非常相似（未提及其名称），有些（除了措辞略有不同）相同。然而，除了火药配方之外，成分的比例是不同的 如果你想反其道而行之，那就是一个人或任何其他物体的图像，放入水中时会发炎，取出时会熄灭，取生石灰并与少许蜡和芝麻混合油、石脑油和白土，然后做一个像，当你洒上水就会燃烧 如果你想把火拿在手上以免受伤，那就取用热豆水和少许锦葵煮熟的石灰，然后将它们混合均匀。然后用它抹你的手掌，让它干燥，在里面放火，它就不会受伤。哲学家们说，滑石不会在火中燃烧，鱼胶从火中保存，Yaman 明矾，蝾螈的血，以及熔炉或大锅的烟灰，当你用它们全部或部分搽剂时，火不疼 3、在一张白纸上放两三粒火药，一指相距三指，其中一根火，如果火药又好又浓，一下子就全都着火了，并且不会留下硫磺或硝石的粗俗，在它们被燃烧的地方除了白色的烟熏色之外什么都没有，纸也不会被触摸。 4.如果将好的火药放在手掌上，用火点燃，你就不会被烧伤。