Terra pura lapis non fit quia continuacionem non facit sed commutacionem. Vincens tamen in ea siccitas non permittit eam conglutinari ... (Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Avicennae de congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, ed. Eric J. Holmyard and Desmond C. Mandeville (Paris, 1927)., p. 45).
Arabic Print or Manuscript
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Šifāʾ: al-Ṭabīʿiyyāt 5 – Al-Maʿādīn wa-l-āṯār al-ʿulwiyya, ed. ʿAbd-al-Ḥalīm Muntaṣir, Saʿīd Zāyid and ʿAbdallāh Ismāʿīl (Cairo, 1965, repr. Cairo, 1983)., pp. 3–9, 20–2.
Latin Print or Manuscript
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), Avicennae de congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, ed. Eric J. Holmyard and Desmond C. Mandeville (Paris, 1927)..
Septem sunt genera metalli. Primum argentum uiuum ... (MS London, BL, Additional 22719. Link: [⬈], f. 201v).
Arabic Print or Manuscript
not extant
Latin Print or Manuscript
Charles Burnett, ‘Physics before the Physics: Early Translations from Arabic of Texts Concerning Nature in Mss British Library, Additional 22719 and Cotton Galba E IV’, in: Medioevo 27 (2002), pp. 53–109, here pp. 104–106..