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http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=470830
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
(Critical Editions and Studies)
Author(s): Timmermann, Anke
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden - Boston
Published: 2013
Subjects: Mathematics and science, Science: general issues, History of science
Abstract
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle
English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth
century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English
Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one
anonymous recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the
fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association
with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of
them appeared in Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These
editions are the first to make this previously unidentified corpus
available to researchers. The accompanying studies discover the
complex histories of these alchemica, in plain and illuminated
manuscripts, as anonyma and in attribution to famous authors, and in
private and institutional, medical and academic book collections.
Together, they offer novel insights into the role of alchemy and
poetry in late medieval and early modern England. This title was made
Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge
Unlatched.
Keywords
History
Literature
Medieval and Early Science
LanguageEnglish
Number of pages390
ISBN9789004254831
9789004254848
Rights: http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/
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